This Week's Analysis 5 Things the El Salvador Gang Truce Has Taught Us

Weekly InSight | 15 March 2013



One year on from a secretly negotiated truce between El Salvador’s two biggest gangs, discerning the facts is almost as difficult as it was when gang leaders were shuttled to lower security prisons in the dead of night, kicking off the deal.

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