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Arrest tally in El Salvador gang crackdown reaches 50,000

San Salvador (AFP) - El Salvador has arrested some 50,000 suspected gang members since President Nayib Bukele launched a "war" in March on criminal groups terrorizing the country, the head of the country's police force announced Tuesday.

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Reviving Mexico's groundbreaking muralism a century later

Artists in a small Mexican town are using their talents to revive muralism, a movement that put the country at the vanguard of art a century ago

The Independent UK

Salvadoran Archbishop praises government crackdown on gangs

The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador is praising a months-long state of emergency that has rounded of tens of thousands of suspects in a crackdown on gangs

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Morris rescues USA in 1-1 draw with El Salvador

San Salvador (AFP) - An injury-time header from Jordan Morris salvaged a 1-1 draw for the United States against El Salvador in a scrappy CONCACAF Nations League clash on Tuesday.

AFP

Referee dies after being viciously attacked by players and fans over red card

Jose Arnaldo Anaya, 63, passed away as a result of internal bleeding he sustained while officiating a match at the Toluca Stadium in Miramont, San Salvador, last weekend

Irish Mirror

Referee dies after attack by players and supporters for showing red card in El Salvador

Jose Arnaldo Anaya, 63, passed away as a result of internal injuries sustained while officiating the match at the Toluca Stadium in Miramont, San Salvador, last weekend

Daily Mirror

World’s most violent cities: Medellín crime surge helps Latin America top list

Region has two-thirds of world’s most dangerous cities, with Bogotá, Rio, Mexico City and San Salvador also named in study

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Wives, mothers worry for 'innocent' men netted in Salvadoran gang crackdown

San Salvador (AFP) - For three days, Ofelia Hernandez and her two small children have camped outside a Salvadoran prison where her husband is being held -- one of tens of thousands arrested since March in President Nayib Bukele's "war" on gangs.

AFP

Relief and alarm as El Salvador rounds up 'gangsters'

San Salvador (AFP) - An unprecedented round up of alleged gangsters in El Salvador has netted thousands of suspects and brought relief to citizens living in constant fear.

AFP

El Salvador extends state of emergency to curb gang violence

San Salvador (AFP) - El Salvador's lawmakers on Sunday extended a state of emergency for another month at the request of President Nayib Bukele, after it was imposed in late March to stamp out a wave of deadly gang violence.

AFP

In response to killings, El Salvador’s bitcoin president attacks civil liberties

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — After a dramatic spike in killings here over a single weekend last month, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s reaction was swift — and extreme.

Los Angeles Times

El Salvador reels as 6,000 people arrested in unprecedented crackdown

Authoritarian populist president Nayib Bukele has suspended rights in state of emergency justified as attack on MS13 gang

The Guardian - US

El Salvador declares state of emergency over spike in gang killings

San Salvador (AFP) - El Salvadoran lawmakers on Sunday declared a state of emergency at President Nayib Bukele's request, expanding police powers and curtailing civil liberties as the country faces soaring gang-related bloodshed that has left dozens dead in just two days.

AFP

Thousands march in El Salvador to demand abortion rights

San Salvador (AFP) - Around 2,000 women marched in El Salvador's capital on Sunday to demand the legalization of abortion and a decrease in the killings of women in the Central American country.

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'I lost my youth': Women jailed for miscarriages in El Salvador

San Salvador (AFP) - Kenia was 17 when, she says, she had a miscarriage after a fall and was sent to jail on suspicion of having had an abortion in El Salvador.

Los Angeles Times

El Salvador's president buys Bitcoins 'naked,' he boasts. His experiment is costing his nation millions

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Four months into El Salvador's experiment as the first and only country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal currency, the International Monetary Fund had seen enough.

Reuters

Salvadoran women freed from jail after abortion convictions seek clemency for others

Four Salvadoran women recently freed from prison after a judicial review of their convictions for aggravated homicide following miscarriages called on Tuesday for another 12 women being prosecuted in El Salvador under similar circumstances to have their charges quashed.

Los Angeles Times

In Latin America's new Cold War, will China lift up autocrats?

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's president and the Chinese ambassador traded flatteries this month as they broke ground on a new national library, one of a slew of gifts China has promised this small mountainous nation as part of its vigorous quest to gain influence across Central America.

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El Salvador woman freed after 10 years in prison for abortion

San Salvador (AFP) - An El Salvadorian woman was freed from prison Wednesday, after the remaining 20 years of her 30-year sentence for having an abortion were commuted.

The Canadian Press

Turmoil for El Salvador soccer team ahead of World Cup qualifier against Canada

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The El Salvador national men's soccer team threatened not to play Wednesday's World Cup qualifier against Canada over a dispute with its national federation, only to recant soon after.

AFP

Salvadorans show support for bitcoin despite IMF criticism

San Salvador (AFP) - Karen Hernandez sells mobile phone accessories in El Salvador and says business has been through the roof since the country started using bitcoin as legal tender.

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