MARCOS ALEMÁN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Clarke County Tribune

Home

Maria Dolores Garcia, the mother of Esmeralda Dominguez, looks out at the plants dying in her daughter’s unattended garden, in the Sisiguayo community in Jiquilisco, in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador, Thursday, May 12, 2022. Her daughter is among thousands arrested since the congress granted President Nayib Bukele a state of emergency declaration suspending civil liberties after street gangs killed dozens of people in late March. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

AP
free content

A crackdown in El Salvador, and fears of arbitrary arrests
By MARCOS ALEMÁN AND CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press
Thu,06/02/22-10:34AM , 94 Reads
LA LIMONERA, El Salvador (AP) — Esmeralda Domínguez was about 100 yards from home when soldiers and police blocked her on a small bridge. The authorities had waited there for hours. Dominguez, neighbors said, was the only person they stopped.
Click Here to Read More

An elderly woman watches as soldiers patrol in the San Jose del Pino Community in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, during the government's unprecedented crackdown on gangs. El Salvador's congress, pushing further in the government's crackdown, has authorized prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce or disseminate messages from the gangs, alarming press freedom groups. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

AP
registered content - login required to view
Click to register / login

El Salvador president's mass arrests 'punitive populism'
By MARCOS ALEMÁN AND CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press
Thu,04/14/22-8:45AM , 129 Reads
SANTA TECLA, El Salvador (AP) — A day after the bloodletting -- 62 gang killings that convulsed El Salvador -- the crackdown began.

Before dawn on Sunday, March 27, just hours after congress approved a state of emergency, heavily armed police and soldiers entered the packed, gang-controlled neighborhood of San Jose El Pino.
Click Here to Read More

Subscribe to MARCOS ALEMÁN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN