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'No Way Out': Grim Conditions In El Salvador's Mega-prison For Gangs
Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" ...
World News
His last sentence came just last year in June. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for receiving an airplane as a ...
ABC News8d
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes who lived in exile in Nicaragua dies at 65
The former president had pending sentences in El Salvador for corruption and making deals with the country’s powerful street gangs that amounted to more than 26 years, but he never set foot in ...
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Mauricio Funes: A Life Behind Borders
Mauricio Funes, former El Salvador President, died in Nicaragua at 65. Having governed El Salvador from 2009-2014, he spent his later years in Nicaragua to avoid corruption charges back home. Granted ...
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3 members of MS-13 street gang plead guilty in 9 killings on Long Island
MS-13 is also known as Mara Salvatrucha and is believed to have been founded as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by people fleeing civil war in El Salvador.
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Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65
The former president had pending sentences in El Salvador for corruption and making deals with the country’s powerful street gangs that amounted to 28 years, but he never set foot in prison.