Continuing its tough-on-crime policy against violent gangs that have transformed El Salvador over the past few decades, the government of Nayib Bukele sentenced more than 240 members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, also known as MS-13, imposing some of the longest prison terms in the country's history.
Facing hundreds of charges, including 43 counts of aggravated homicide, 42 counts of kidnapping, and dozens more for extortion and drug trafficking, El Salvador's Attorney General's Office announced on social media that the MS-13 members received sentences totaling hundreds of years.
