El Salvador Congress Votes To Strip Politician Of Immunity SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador: El Salvador’s congress voted Wednesday to strip a politician accused of making a deal with the country’s powerful street gangs of the legislative immunity that had prevented his prosecution.Sixty-six of the Legislative Assembly’s 84 lawmakers voted to support the attorney general’s petition
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A court in El Salvador on Thursday held a virtual sentencing hearing for 492 leaders of the feared Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, accused of thousands of crimes, including more than 500 homicides. The MS-13 leaders are "linked to 37,402 crimes, committed between 2012 and 2022," the attorney general's office wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
A court in El Salvador on Thursday held a virtual sentencing hearing for 492 leaders of the feared Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, accused of thousands of crimes, including more than 500 homicides.