Weekly Report - 24 May 2012 (WR-12-20)

Hopes that the truces brokered between local street gangs (‘maras’) in El Salvador and Belize might offer an answer to the security crisis afflicting the isthmus are beginning to unravel. While there was a tangible impact on the homicide rates registered in both countries –  both of which in September 2011 were added for the first time to the US government ‘Majors’ list (Major Illicit Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries) – the limits of this strategy have quickly become apparent.

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