CRIME IN EL SALVADOR

Photography 3: Leonardo Goi, (June 19, 2017), Barrio 18 Extortion, https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/barrio-18-extortion-cast-doubt-el-salvador-govt-security-narrative/.

Photography 1: José Miguel Cruz and Jonathan D. Rosen (July 27, 2020), https://aulablog.net/2020/07/27/el-salvador-what-makes-gang-members-defect/.

MARA SALVATUCHA

Friday 07,2022

BARRIO 18

Photography 2: Danny Pirtle (N.D) Mara Salvatrucha international criminal gang, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mara-Salvatrucha.

GANGS

International Language Academy of Canada K20 - PW3 TS1 K Isaac Luchini

Mónica Guerrero

CRIME IN EL SALVADOR

PROBLEMS

SOLUTIONS

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REFERENCES

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SUMMARY

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INTRODUCTION

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CRIME IN EL SALVADOR

INDEX

Photography 5: Juan Carlos Ulate, (Aug. 16, 2012), a member of the gang Barrio 18, in prison in El Salvador, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/making-a-deal-with-murderers.html.

Many statesmen and historians, gangs are formed in the United States, specifically in Los Angeles, these people who were part of these criminal groups returned to the country, most of them deported in the 1990s.

Photography 4: Juan Carlos Ulate, (Aug. 16, 2012), a member of the gang Barrio 18, in prison in El Salvador, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/making-a-deal-with-murderers.html.

INTRODUCTION

El Salvador, a small country in Central America, has been rocked by a relentless plague of gang warfare.The crime in El Salvador has a long period of existence, it comes mostly from criminal groups called gangs, the term used in Spanish is "Maras", with a civil war that marked society forever, leaving a nation, that was once prosperous, at a disadvantage for a long period.

Photography 6: Linda Pressly, (November 21, 2012), Inside El Salvador, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20402216 .

Organized crime, weapons and drugs.

Sexual assaults.

Extortion and Robbery.

Murders.

PROBLEMS

Photography 7: Reuters, (April 16, 2015) Most dangerous prison, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3042704/El-Salvador-transfers-gangsters-maximum-security-prison.html

Photograpgy 8: Jorge E. Cuellár, (June 23, 2022), No One is Safe in Bukele’s Gang War, https://nacla.org/bukele-gang-war.

One of the most recent solutions is the zero-tolerance policy. The current president of El Salvador declared a state of emergency in 2022. Another solution, for Sustainable Development Goals Fund (N.D), “The strategy could focus around three main areas, strengthening the capacity and effectiveness of State institutions and civil society organizations to prevent and reduce violence".

SOLUTIONS

Photograpgy 9: Flora Charner, Tatiana Arias and Hollie Silverman, (April 28, 2020), Lethal force, https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/28/americas/el-salvador-gangs-president-orders-lethal-force/index.html.

The government must continue to monitor the security of its citizens, but it must also request involving families and community participation in the planning and implementation processes of solutions facilitates the appropriation and sustainability of these processes.

SUMMARY

El Salvador: President Bukele engulfs the country in a human rights crisis after three years in government. (June 22, 2022). https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/el-salvador-president-bukele-human-rights-crisis/. International Crisis group. (December 19¸2017), El Salvador’s Politics of Perpetual Violence. https://www.crisisgroup.org/latin-america-caribbean/central-america/el-salvador/64-el-salvadors-politics-perpetual-violence. Juan Pappier, (June 21, 2022), Bukele´s Old Recipes to Address Gang Violence Are Set to Fail. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/21/bukeles-old-recipes-address-gang-violence-are-set-fail. Mary Speck, Ph.D. (April 6, 2022), El Salvador Needs Long-Term Solutions to End Cycles of Violence. https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/04/el-salvador-needs-long-term-solutions-end-cycles-violence. Sustainable Development Goals Fund (N.D), Capital to prevent violence in El Salvador. https://www.sdgfund.org/case-study/building-social-capital-prevent-violence-esalvador.

REFERENCES

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