El Salvador authorities raid criminal dens

On May 26, El Salvador mobilized 3,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers to the city of Apopa to crack down on notorious criminal gangs currently hiding there.

Official statistics show that in nearly two years of the state of emergency, El Salvador authorities have arrested more than 75,000 members of criminal gangs, including more than 1,000 gang leaders. (Source: The Tico Times)

On May 26, authorities set up a security cordon around the city of Apopa and raided the hideouts of MS 13 and Barrio 18 – the two most notorious gangs in the area.

Authorities arrested dozens of members of MS13 and Barrio 18 in the Valle del Sol and La Chintuc areas, seizing large quantities of heroin, hundreds of weapons, explosives, support tools and many other exhibits related to various cases.

Speaking on social network X, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele stated that the raid was carried out after the government received information from local people, as well as intelligence information about the rampant criminal gangs in the city of Apopa, and emphasized that the authorities will continue to hunt down the remaining members of these gangs.

On March 25, El Salvador authorities also arrested dozens of members of the Gang 18 gang, after mobilizing 5,000 soldiers and 1,800 police to surround the organization's lair in the southern state of Chalatenango.

In August 2023, El Salvador mobilized 7,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers to set up a security fence around the state of Cabañas to crack down on criminal gangs currently hiding there, after the government extended the state of national emergency for the 16th time since declaring a state of emergency in March 2022 to restore security and order.

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