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U.S. pressures El Salvador to extradite wanted MS-13 leaders

FILE PHOTO: A police officer detains a man in a seized MS-13 gang usurped house during a "Casa Segura" (Safe House) operation at Jardines de San Bartolo neighborhood, in Ilopango, El Salvador, September 21, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

The U.S. State Department on Friday asked authorities in El Salvador to "immediately" extradite leaders of the international criminal gang MS-13 to be put on trial in the United States.

The request is the latest chapter in Washington's increasingly complicated relationship with the government of President Nayib Bukele.

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