September 3, 2015
In El Salvador, each month is proving worse than the last. The country suffered an astonishing climb in murders this August—by far the...
blog
August 3, 2015
A Warscapes reader from El Salvador wrote to me last night, requesting clarification on something I wrote in my post on El Salvador’s gangs...
blog
August 1, 2015
The carnage being wrought in El Salvador this year is slowly attracting the attention of major English-language media in the United States...
blog
July 7, 2015
This past month was the bloodiest yet for El Salvador in a year marked by spiking violence and insecurity. Some 677 people were murdered...
Opinion
January 12, 2015
A team representing the private consulting firm of Rudolph Giuliani will arrive in El Salvador this coming weekend to advise local leaders...
blog
January 4, 2015
A couple of nights ago, I tweeted an article —which inspired a blog post —about the dramatic rise in murders reported by the Salvadoran...
blog
January 3, 2015
Early last March, it appeared that the truce between rival gangs in El Salvador had come undone. Murder rates had begun to rise and all...
blog
March 18, 2014
After a week of uncertainty, the results of last week’s presidential election in El Salvador have been confirmed. The contest was...
blog
March 8, 2014
Two years ago, prospects for peace between El Salvador’s gangs seemed good. In May 2012, MS-13 and MS-18 agreed to a peace pact brokered by...