First Inmates Transferred To El Salvador Mega Prison In Crackdown On Extortion payments totaled $756 million in 2016, according to estimates by el salvador's central bank, pushing some salvadorans to migrate, and their businesses to close. gangs have targeted both rich and poor business owners. from street vendors, beauty salon owners and market traders to wealthy ranchers and tycoons, few businesses have been. A confidential intelligence document from el salvador's national civil police shows that after a year and a half of a gang crackdown, police believe nearly 43,000 people allegedly connected to.
El Salvador S Controversial Gang Crackdown Stamps Out Extortion Context San salvador (thomson reuters foundation) — for nearly 20 years, antonio ventura has been handing over $100 a month from the till of his small grocery store in el salvador’s capital to gangsters in extortion payments. it was the only way to avoid death threats at gunpoint, or worse. living in a poor san salvador neighborhood split between areas controlled by the powerful armed street gang. El salvador’s president nayib bukele speaks during a ceremony to lay the first stone of a new public hospital, in san salvador, el salvador, on 15th june, 2023. picture: reuters jose cabezas file photo. extortion rackets emerged early in the last decade and gradually became a key financing source for el salvador’s gangs. He also delivered the latest escalation in his ruthless crackdown on the country's street gangs which has seen a staggering 57,000 people arrested on suspicion of gang affiliation since march. The government's heavy handed approach enjoys more than 90% support with the salvadorean public, exhausted after years of gang intimidation and extortion. document checks and searches are a common.
El Salvador S Hardline President Manages To Do The Unthinkable Wipe He also delivered the latest escalation in his ruthless crackdown on the country's street gangs which has seen a staggering 57,000 people arrested on suspicion of gang affiliation since march. The government's heavy handed approach enjoys more than 90% support with the salvadorean public, exhausted after years of gang intimidation and extortion. document checks and searches are a common. April 9, 2023. leer en español. when the ms 13 gang ran the neighborhood of las margaritas, one of its strongholds in el salvador, there were rules you had to follow to stay alive. you couldn’t. In january, the government said el salvador’s homicide rate had decreased by nearly 57 percent in 2022, and critics acknowledge that gangs that once brought violence and extortion to entire.
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