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MAGNITUDE 7.0 QUAKE SHAKES CENTRAL AMERICA
In El Salvador, the eartquake could be felt in the regions of Chalatenango, San Salvador, Cabanas and San Miguel... READ MORE›
ONE MURDER EVERY HOUR: HOW EL SALVADOR BECAME THE HOMICIDE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
Marvin is a senior figure in the Mara Salvatrucha one of El Salvador's two biggest gangs... READ MORE›
52 SHOT DEAD IN 72 HOURS IN THE WORLD'S NEW MURDER CAPITAL
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Over three nightmarish days with the police on the streets of San Salvador, MailOnline saw them respond to 52 murders... READ MORE›
FLIGHT FOR LIFE FROM THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY
Scores are leaving El Salvador to escape gang murders and suspected extrajudicial killings El Salvador Josue Salomon looks bewildered... READ MORE›
EL SALVADOR CRACKS DOWN ON CRIME BUT GANGS REMAIN UNBOWED
Salvadoran gang leaders deported from Los Angeles brought criminal techniques to impoverished youths who found a means of survival in the gangs... READ MORE›
GANG MEMBERS 'CONFESS' TO KILLING 43 IN IGUALA AND BURNING THEIR BODIES
Murillo Karam said there is no evidence the students were involved in organized crime... READ MORE›
EL SALVADOR'S SECURITY FORCES ARE NOW INVOLVED IN MORE SHOOTOUTS THAN MEXICO'S
Although those measures are often popular in gang-weary El Salvador -- gangs are responsible for killings, kidnapping and vast amounts of extortion... READ MORE›
EL SALVADOR GANG VIOLENCE PUSHES MURDER RATE TO POSTWAR RECORD
El Salvador is one of the most violent countries in the world, according to United Nations statistics, with a 2012 murder rate of 41.2 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants... READ MORE›
JAPAN BRACES FOR VIOLENCE AMONG 'YAKUZA' CRIME GANGS
Yakuza gangs, long tolerated as a necessary evil in Japan, have been in slow decline since organized crime countermeasures were enacted in the early 1990s... READ MORE›
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT'S DOWNFALL MARKS SUCCESS FOR CORRUPTION INVESTIGATORS
Before the massive customs scams that eventually brought down the president, CICIG was involved in two other large-scale corruption cases... READ MORE›
EL SALVADOR SAYS A BRUTAL GANG LAUNDERED MONEY THROUGH MOTELS, BROTHELS, TAXIS
Some of the accused have business connections in the United States, where the Mara Salvatrucha has a strong presence in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C... READ MORE›
A RARE MURDER-FREE DAY RECORDED IN EL SALVADOR
In August 2015, police had said there were at least 125 murders in just three days in the country, a staggering toll even by El Salvador's standards... READ MORE›
MEXICAN MAYOR AND HIS WIFE ARRESTED OVER DISAPPEARANCE OF 43 STUDENTS
Police picked up the other 43 students and took them to the nearby town of Cocula, Murillo Karam said... READ MORE›
'PAY UP OR WE'LL STEAL YOUR CAR'
The suspects in the recent terror campaign are led by a man aged in his early 20s from the Dublin 12 area... READ MORE›
WHY EL SALVADOR BECAME THE HEMISPHERE'S MURDER CAPITAL
The death toll has spiked since a truce between El Salvador's two most powerful street gangs crumbled in 2014... READ MORE›
EL SALVADOR THROWS OUT GANG TRUCE AND OFFICIALS WHO PUT IT IN PLACE
Attorney General Douglas Melendez has already arrested one of the main mediators of the truce, along with about 20 law enforcement officials who helped carry it out... READ MORE›
PRISONERS 'PRIZE OPEN EL SALVADOR JAIL BARS WITH HANDS' TO ESCAPE
El Salvador's bloody gang turf wars have made it one of the most dangerous countries in the world... READ MORE›
MUM PUNCHED AND KICKED IN THE HEAD AND HOUSE RANSACKED BY TEEN 'DRUG DEALERS'
Rachel O'Byrne 44 was set on by the gang of up to 20 youths in west Finglas at around 11 o'clock last Wednesday night... READ MORE›
35 000 LEGAL AID BUT NO COMPENSATION FOR CORCORAN FAMILY
As criminal Thomas Flynn arrived at Cashel District Court in November 2013 he roared... READ MORE›
EL SALVADOR'S GANGS CALL A CEASE-FIRE, BUT MANY DOUBT IT WILL HOLD
We're not friends, one of the gangsters, a spokesman for the 18th Street gang, said in a rare interview last week, alongside a Mara Salvatrucha representative... READ MORE›
MORELOS GOVERNOR TAKES OVER LOCAL POLICE
Mexico mayor shooting Morelos governor takes over local police... READ MORE›
SUITCASE MURDER VICTIM KENNETH O'BRIEN 'WAS KILLED BY GANG OVER MISSING DRUG MONEY'
GardaI believe a 33-year-old man whose dismembered torso was found in the Grand Canal was murdered by a West Dublin crime gang over missing drugs cash... READ MORE›
BATTLE BETWEEN GANGS IN BALI'S KEROBOKAN JAIL LEAVES THREE DEAD
Two members of Baladika Bali, which reportedly has a membership of about 25,000, were killed at Kerobokan prison... READ MORE›
WOMAN (83) GAVE MAN 'A BELT OF HER WALKING STICK' AFTER HE BROKE INTO HER HOUSE, COURT TOLD
An year old 83 woman hit a would-be burglar with her walking stick after he smashed his way into her home Dublin Circuit Court has heard... READ MORE›
TWO SALVADORAN GANGSTERS WALK INTO A CHURCH
18th Street El Salvador is so obsessed with the gangs, it forgets about the rest of the population, about health care, about everything... READ MORE›
WHERE IS ABORTION ILLEGAL? IN EL SALVADOR, THE WORLD'S STRICTEST REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAWS MIGHT BE RECONSIDERED
By 2011, the World Health Organization estimated that 11 percent of the women who had undergone illegal abortions had died... READ MORE›
'YES, IT'S JORDAN': WORLD TOURISM SLOGANS RANGE FROM LOVELY TO LAUGHABLE
The actual tourism slogan of the Central American nation is the far more boring and tedious El Salvador Impressive! Time for a change?... READ MORE›
CAMORRA MOBSTER ON THE RUN CAUGHT WHILE SUNBATHING ON BEACH NEAR ROME
The notorious Camorra, one of the country's oldest Mafia syndicates, was dissected and exposed in journalist Roberto Saviano's award-winning novel Gomorrah and the... READ MORE›
ITALIAN POLICE CAPTURE TWO FUGITIVE MAFIA BOSSES IN MOUNTAIN BUNKER FULL OF GUNS
Camouflage hung on the hidden bunker where mafia bosses Giuseppe Crea and Giuseppe Ferraro were captured... READ MORE›
ARE MIRACLES REAL? WITH MOST MURDERS IN THE WORLD, EL SALVADOR PRAISES GOD FOR DAY WITHOUT KILLINGS
The nation battling gang violence typically sees 10 murders a day... READ MORE›