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Has The Gang Truce In El Salvador Failed?

Violent drug gangs have been confronting El Salvador with an enormous internal security problem for more than two decades; inhibiting development and prolonging poverty and structural violence. If one considers the 1992 peace a...

by Lea Atzinger

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Mexico’s Growing Human Trafficking Scene

In one Mexican farm alone, Bioparques de Occidente in Jalisco (BO), more than 250 workers were rescued from slavery circumstances.

by Carlos Arturo

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How Gangs Have Become A Trojan Horse In El Salvador’s Security Forces

El Salvador seems to be replicating that mythical ploy of war known as the Trojan Horse. In Homer’s poem “The Odyssey”, he tells the story of how the Greek Achilles fakes the retreat of his army and leaves a wooden ho...

by Connectas .org

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Has The Gang Truce In El Salvador Failed?

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