El Salvador’s contemporary death squads do not engage in political liquidation. ... Researchers tracked the cases of 1,824 victims of lethal violence at the hands of El Salvador’s national police.

In early January 2017, Rastreador created his own Facebook page: Grupo de Exterminio de Pandilleros El Salvador (Death Squad Against Gangs El Salvador). As Rastreador explains, this was used to ...

Police and army officials were among those arrested in El Salvador’s biggest opperation against anti-gang death squads in recent memory, as the authorities finally move against the deadly militias ...

The report will say also that El Salvador’s attorney general announced in August last year that “his office had opened investigations into three death squads operating in the country: two in ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Federal prosecutors in El Salvador say four National Civil Police officers and 15 soldiers participated in death squads that killed 36 people. Prosecutor Walter Ruiz ...

Amnesty International has been concerned over the past year at the escalation of torture, ”disappearances” and extrajudicial executions in El Salvador, carried out by uniformed and plai… ...

Authorities El Salvador have arrested five police officers and five civilians for alleged ties to a death squad that killed as many as 40 gang members in the eastern part of the country.

Catholic bishops walk to the main altar Saturday in San Salvador, El Salvador, during a beatification ceremony for two priests and two lay people, all victims of right-wing death squads during El ...

San Salvador – The Salvadoran government said Wednesday it is reinforcing police presence in parts of the country most savagely assailed by gangs, after death-squad leaflets appeared in an ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Authorities El Salvador have arrested five police officers and five civilians for alleged ties to a death squad that killed as many as 40 gang members in the ...

Between 1977-89, death squads and soldiers killed 13 priests in El Salvador. Grande was 49 years old when he was killed as he drove with Solorzano and Lemus along a rural highway in Aguilares ...