Various media outlets have begun making it known that at least 16 individuals who had been selected as candidates to join the Supreme Court have been rendered ineligible after an investigation wherein the U.S. examined supposed connections between the candidates and crime. This decision was made following a meeting … Read More
Daily Archives: January 12, 2016
CALEE / FBI: La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 – Countering the Threat with Strong Partnerships
At the start of the FBI’s recent Central American Law Enforcement Exchange (CALEE) program, participants from U.S. police departments and their counterparts from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Panama were strangers, but they shared one thing in common: a commitment to make their communities safe from violent gangs … Read More
CALEE / FBI: La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 Understanding the Threat
The town of Sonsonate, not far from the Pacific Ocean in western El Salvador, is home to a prison housing more than 800 inmates. Like many of the prisons in this Central American country, Centro Penal De Sonsonate incarcerates only gang members—and, by definition, each one is a killer. La … Read More