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Margarita Ramirez* knew who it was when she heard the loud thuds on her front door. She opened it a crack and saw several members of the Barrio 18 street gang which ruled her neighbourhood. “Where’s ...

The Trump administration designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization on Tuesday, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent months. Barrio ...

They got this beast’s number. A convicted killer on El Salvador’s list of most-wanted gang members has been arrested while living illegally in the US, according to the feds — with his mugshot showing ...

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President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is celebrating 1,000 days without homicides since he took power in 2019. But what does that mean exactly, and are there reasons to doubt the numbers in a country ...

When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...

MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration Tuesday designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent ...