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El Salvador Deploys 6,000 Security Forces Against Gangs

El Salvador says 6,000 security forces deployed against gangs

Military cordon against gangs in northern El Salvador

San Salvador, Mar 25 (Prensa Latina) A military encirclement is underway in several districts of Chalatenango Sur, northern El Salvador, to dismantle gang groups operating in that area of the country, authorities reported today.

El Salvador says 6,000 security forces deployed against gangs

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced Sunday that 6,000 military and police forces had been deployed to root out gang members in the north of the country after two people were murdered. Bukele launched a war on gangs in March 2022, with a state of emergency suspending the need for arrest warrants, among other civil liberties. Under the provision, authorities have rounded up about 75,000 suspected gangsters, many of them.

How Nayib Bukele won over voters in an unlikely place

San Antonio Los Ranchos, El Salvador – For nearly 20 years, Amadeo Lopez, 57, voted for the left-wing party that emerged from the violent rebellion that he was part of: the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The party was formed after El Salvador signed a peace agreement in 1992 to end the war after leftist fighters took up arms against the United States-backed Salvadoran government. “We were convinced by a project for change, that promised justice for the country,” Lopez said. He wasn’t alone. From the first post-war elections up until 2015, as much as 90 percent of residents in San Antonio Los Ranchos, a town of fewer than 2,000 people about two hours from the capital, San Salvador, and near the border with Honduras, supported the FMLN in presidential, legislative and municipal elections.