Central America Violence Archives

All blogs tagged with Central America Violence

Bukele’s Negotiations with Gangs are a False Solution to the Structural Problem of Violence in El Salvador

Andrea Colombo ˙ Jul 22, 2022 ˙ Voces

Photo of detainees at a Salvadoran prison

Negotiating with the maras has become a recurrent method to deal with the violence issue in El Salvador. Virtually no recent government has resisted this approach in an effort to bring down high murder rates.Read more +

The Toxic Intersection of Violence Against Women in the Northern Triangle and the Trump Administration’s Anti-Immigration Policies

Tamar Ziff ˙ Sep 11, 2019 ˙ Voces

“There is a broad underestimation [by US immigration court judges] of how dangerous the situation on the ground is in Central America. Most people… live in a constant culture of violence. For example, most of my teenage clients have witnessed someone being murdered on the streets, and this is the…Read more +