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A new "anti-terror" law in El Salvador, modelled on similar legislation in the US, has come under renewed criticism from rights groups who say it is vague and unduly harsh. Teresa Bo, Al Jazeera's South America correspondent, reports on the divisions in a country that is still recovering from a civil war that ended over a decade ago.
El Salvador is awash in violence. Fifteen years after the end of a bloody civil war, the small Central American country has become notorious for its vicious street gangs, or maras, as they are called. Among the worst are the Mara 13 and Mara 18 which sell drugs, extort protection money and fight ...
El Salvador is awash in violence. Fifteen years after the end of a bloody civil war, the small Central American country has become notorious for its vicious street gangs, or maras, as they are called. Among the worst are the Mara 13 and Mara 18 which sell drugs, extort protection money and fight ...
El Salvador's Banda de Musica Instituto Nacional performs at the 119th Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, CA on January 1, 2008.