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A Prison Riot in an Overcrowded Guatemalan Jail Kills at Least 16
The authorities said the prison was built with the capacity for 600 inmates but currently houses over 3,000.
El Salvador’s Young People Are Killing, Dying, and Running
No single group has been more tragically impacted by El Salvador's gang war than the young. Preyed on at school and in their barrios, many families seek to send them to the United States but this is getting more difficult and dangerous to do.
No End To The Bloodshed: Gangs of El Salvador (Part 5)
In the final part of our five-part series, VICE News correspondent Danny Gold examines how with deaths on both sides, the cycle of killings and retaliation shows no signs of stopping.
Targeting The Young: Gangs of El Salvador (Part 4)
In part four of our five-part series, VICE News correspondent Danny Gold reports on how El Salvador's youth are affected by the conflict between the government and the country's street gangs.
Are El Salvador's Murderous Gangs the Voice of the Oppressed? They Think So
El Salvador's civil war ended in 1992 and the former leftist guerrillas are now in government leading a crackdown against gangs. Some gang leaders claim that they now occupy the void those guerrillas left behind.
One Day in Usulután: Gangs of El Salvador (Part 3)
In part three of our five-part series, VICE News correspondent Danny Gold spends a day in Usulután, a small rural region of 300,000, now in the grip of a new wave of murders and disappearances at the hands of the El Salvador's street gangs.
Living In Fear: Gangs of El Salvador (Part 2)
In part two of our five-part series, VICE News correspondent Danny Gold finds outs what El Salvador's street gangs really want, and speaks with those living in fear.
Waging War: Gangs of El Salvador (Part 1)
In part one of our five-part series, VICE News correspondent Danny Gold heads to El Salvador to investigate what many are now calling a war between gangs and the government.
The Neverending War in El Salvador
As El Salvador's gang war reaches it's deadliest heights, the government has decided to meet violence with violence.
Seven Mutilated Bodies Found in Trash at Guatemala Prison
The victims were discovered in a part of the maximum-security El Boqueron prison controlled by the notorious MS-13 gang.
El Salvador Journalists Fear for Their Lives After Accusing Police of a Massacre
Three investigative reporters have received death threats after claiming that El Salvador’s National Civil Police shot eight people in an extrajudicial killing.
The 18th Street Gang Just Set Out to Prove It Runs El Salvador’s Transport System
Four people including a bus driver were killed on Wednesday in the latest attack against El Salvador's bus system after a country-wide stoppage ordered by the 18th Street gang.