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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

El Salvador president's mass arrests 'punitive populism'

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

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.

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