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El Salvador's Army Still Struggles with a Gang Problem after Expelling 615

By: Elena Toledo - @NenaToledo - Aug 7, 2017, 4:02 pm

El Salvador has a gang problem, and its army is feeling the effects of it too. Since 2010, 615 members of…

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How the MS-13 Gang Operates in LA: Extortion Rackets, Drug Sales for Mexican Sinaloa Cartel

By: Elena Toledo - @NenaToledo - May 19, 2017, 5:27 pm

The MS-13 gang has at least 1,200 members in Los Angeles, who are known as “mareros.” It is widely…

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Dozens of MS-13 Gang Members Arrested during Massive LA Raids

By: Elena Toledo - @NenaToledo - May 18, 2017, 2:34 pm

According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency (ATF), on Wednesday, Los Angeles police carried out…

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US Government Announces Plan to Eradicate MS-13 Gang

By: Elena Toledo - @NenaToledo - Apr 18, 2017, 6:17 pm

US President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions met Tuesday morning to discuss the notoriously violent Salvadorean gang…

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El Salvador Ups the Stakes, Declares Street Gangs Terrorists

By: PanAm Post Staff - Aug 27, 2015, 9:18 am

After what was one of the bloodiest weeks in El Salvador since the 1980s civil war, on August 24 the Supreme Court…

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El Salvador: Gang Truce Over, Murder Rates Surge

By: PanAm Post Staff - May 27, 2014, 12:29 pm

El Salvador’s outgoing President Mauricio Funes acknowledged on Monday that the gang truce that cut the country’s murders by half…