The Emerging Gang State in El Salvador

Earlier this month in El Salvador, authorities discovered a clandestine mass grave containing 26 bodies, all apparent victims of the gang MS-13, including three youths aged 18-21 who had gone missing in 2021. The gruesome discovery was not, in itself, unique: Other mass graves have been discovered since 2019, including in the municipalities of IlopangoColón, and Chalchuapa: the first two also apparent victims of gangs, the latter of a cop-turned-serial killer.

 

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