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El Salvador to reduce homicide rate in 2024

Published on: January 31, 2024
00:30

San Salvador, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele said that his country already has the lowest homicide rate in the western hemisphere.

Weapons, ammunition, swimming pool and disco in Ecuador’s jails

Published on: January 29, 2024
00:15

Quito, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador’s Armed Forces and the National Police continued their interventions in domestic prisons, where in addition to weapons, ammunition and other illegal objects, they found a swimming pool and a disco.

El Salvador is close to record homicide-free days

Published on: January 28, 2024
11:54

San Salvador, Jan 28 (Prensa Latina) The National Civil Police (PNC) informed on Sunday that El Salvador has so far reached 22 days without murders in January, due to the government policy and the support of the exception regime.

El Salvador reports 20 homicide-free days in January

Published on: January 26, 2024
13:46

San Salvador, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina) El Salvador has reported 20 days without gang-related murders, according to the National Civil Police (PNC).

Process against gang members to begin in El Salvador

Published on: January 22, 2024
10:56

San Salvador, Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) Authorities in El Salvador will begin the judicial process against 494 gang members who committed crimes in the country during a decade, the Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, said.

Salvadorian authorities continue to target drug trafficking and gangs

Published on: January 18, 2024
00:15

San Salvador, Jan 18 (Prensa Latina) Authorities in El Salvador continue its raids against drug trafficking and gangs just weeks before the presidential elections on February 4.

Haitian gangs force kidnap victims to join ranks

Published on: December 18, 2023
17:35

Port-au-Prince, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) Gangs operating in Mariani, at the southern entrance of Haiti´s capital, kidnap peaceful citizens to force them to join their ranks, other strategies that sow panic in the Caribbean nation nowadays.

Forty-one percent of imported firearms are in Paraguay’s black market

Published on: November 28, 2023
00:15

Asunción, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Forty-one percent of the firearms imported by Paraguay in the last four years are in the hands of criminal gangs, according to a specialized official institution quoted by Última Hora on Monday.

Arrest of 109 gang members highlighted in El Salvador

Published on: November 25, 2023
11:11

San Salvador, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) A government report today highlights the arrest of 109 members of the Barrio18 Revolucionarios gang in El Salvador.

Salvadoran police warn about gang reactivation

Published on: November 2, 2023
08:31

San Salvador, Nov 2 (Prensa Latina) Gangs in El Salvador represent a threat and threaten to reactivate themselves, members of the National Civil Police Workers Movement (MTP) said.

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