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  • The Salvadoran army has dismissed an increasing number of troops for suspected gang affiliation, indicating growing attempts by gangs to infiltrate the armed forces, or alternatively, a greater effort on the part of the military to identify potential infiltrators… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • El Salvador’s Supreme Court has charged the former director of the country’s social security institute with illicit enrichment, highlighting the agency’s deep-rooted susceptibility to corruption in Central America’s Northern Triangle region… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • The killing of an opposition politician in Venezuela highlights the difficulty of distinguishing criminal violence from electoral intimidation in the country’s notoriously divisive political climate… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • Authorities have linked several recent murders in the Washington, DC area to alleged members of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, suggesting the organization’s El Salvador-based leadership may be moving to consolidate its relationship with US-based “cliques”. Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • Following allegations that Sinaloa Cartel head Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman flew his way to safety in Venezuela, InSight Crime created a pair of interactive maps showing the reported whereabouts over the past several months of one of the world’s most wanted criminals. Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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