El Salvador deploys 10,000 soldiers, police to town in gang crackdown
Published on: Saturday 03 December 2022
The government of El Salvador has sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation's capital to search for gang members. The operation was one of the largest mobilizations yet in President Nayib Bukele's nine-month-old crackdown on street gangs
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