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Gangs in Haiti go beyond limits and attack against religious

Published on: February 27, 2024
10:24

Port-au-Prince, Feb 27 (Prensa Latina) Religious are also in the sights of gangs in Haiti, where they have already perpetrated attacks and kidnappings against this social segment, generating more panic among the population of Haiti.

Police officers get killed by criminal gangs in Haiti

Published on: February 20, 2024
15:54

Port-au-Prince, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) The Haitian National Police(HNP)’s union informed on Tuesday that criminal gangs have targeted their attacks this week on police officers, leaving two deaths and one injured.

Haitian police search for killers of SWAT agent

Published on: February 15, 2024
15:09

Port-au-Prince, Feb 15 (Prensa Latina) The Haitian National Police (PNH) is on the trail of the perpetrators of an attack against a SWAT Team agent, who was gunned down in the capital.

El Salvador to reduce homicide rate in 2024

Published on: January 31, 2024
00:30

San Salvador, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele said that his country already has the lowest homicide rate in the western hemisphere.

Weapons, ammunition, swimming pool and disco in Ecuador’s jails

Published on: January 29, 2024
00:15

Quito, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador’s Armed Forces and the National Police continued their interventions in domestic prisons, where in addition to weapons, ammunition and other illegal objects, they found a swimming pool and a disco.

El Salvador is close to record homicide-free days

Published on: January 28, 2024
11:54

San Salvador, Jan 28 (Prensa Latina) The National Civil Police (PNC) informed on Sunday that El Salvador has so far reached 22 days without murders in January, due to the government policy and the support of the exception regime.

El Salvador reports 20 homicide-free days in January

Published on: January 26, 2024
13:46

San Salvador, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina) El Salvador has reported 20 days without gang-related murders, according to the National Civil Police (PNC).

Process against gang members to begin in El Salvador

Published on: January 22, 2024
10:56

San Salvador, Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) Authorities in El Salvador will begin the judicial process against 494 gang members who committed crimes in the country during a decade, the Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, said.

Salvadorian authorities continue to target drug trafficking and gangs

Published on: January 18, 2024
00:15

San Salvador, Jan 18 (Prensa Latina) Authorities in El Salvador continue its raids against drug trafficking and gangs just weeks before the presidential elections on February 4.

Haitian gangs force kidnap victims to join ranks

Published on: December 18, 2023
17:35

Port-au-Prince, Dec 18 (Prensa Latina) Gangs operating in Mariani, at the southern entrance of Haiti´s capital, kidnap peaceful citizens to force them to join their ranks, other strategies that sow panic in the Caribbean nation nowadays.

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