Is Bukele's Gang Truce Unraveling?

01/04/2022 9 min

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Episode Synopsis

Communications privacy and the right to legal counsel in case of detention, among other civil liberties, will be suspended for 30 days in El Salvador as a government response to the alarming spike of 62 gang-attributed homicides on Saturday. The surge in violence casts further doubt on the efficiency of President Bukele’s security policy, known as “Plan Territorial Control,” already under scrutiny because of revelations of secret gang negotiations.

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