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Chapter Eight: Latin America

Chapter Eight: Latin America Chapter Eight Latin America Central America (Northern Triangle) Throughout 2015, corruption and Key statistics 2014 2015 organised crime caused severe secu- Conflict intensity: High High rity problems and political instability Fatalities: 15,000 17,000 in Central America’s ‘northern tri- New IDPs: angle’, comprising El Salvador, New refugees: 3,000 Guatemala and Honduras. The resignation and imprisonment of Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, who was implicated in a corrup- tion scandal, caused a shift in his country’s political environment. Meanwhile, criminal violence assumed troubling new forms in El Salvador, where the gangs intensified their coordinated armed campaign against the government. As a consequence, the country recorded 6,670 homicides in the year, or more than 18 per day. This was a rise of 70% from 2014, and the largest increase in El Salvador’s homicide rate in recent history. There were also 106 registered cases in which three or more people were killed in 2015, more than had taken place there in the preceding three years. In January 2015, the most prominent leaders of El Salvador’s two dominant maras (territorial gangs formed predominantly of young men) were returned to RUSSIAN FEDERATION Karachay- CASPIAN Cherkessia SEA TURKEY Kabardino- Balkaria Abkhazia Abkhazia Aleppo Chechnya GEORGIA GEORGIA http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Armed Conflict Survey Taylor & Francis

Chapter Eight: Latin America

Armed Conflict Survey , Volume 2 (1): 22 – Jan 1, 2016
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Chapter Eight Latin America Central America (Northern Triangle) Throughout 2015, corruption and Key statistics 2014 2015 organised crime caused severe secu- Conflict intensity: High High rity problems and political instability Fatalities: 15,000 17,000 in Central America’s ‘northern tri- New IDPs: angle’, comprising El Salvador, New refugees: 3,000 Guatemala and Honduras. The resignation and imprisonment of Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, who was implicated in a corrup- tion scandal, caused a shift in his country’s political environment. Meanwhile, criminal violence assumed troubling new forms in El Salvador, where the gangs intensified their coordinated armed campaign against the government. As a consequence, the country recorded 6,670 homicides in the year, or more than 18 per day. This was a rise of 70% from 2014, and the largest increase in El Salvador’s homicide rate in recent history. There were also 106 registered cases in which three or more people were killed in 2015, more than had taken place there in the preceding three years. In January 2015, the most prominent leaders of El Salvador’s two dominant maras (territorial gangs formed predominantly of young men) were returned to RUSSIAN FEDERATION Karachay- CASPIAN Cherkessia SEA TURKEY Kabardino- Balkaria Abkhazia Abkhazia Aleppo Chechnya GEORGIA GEORGIA

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