El Salvador’s security forces are now involved in more shootouts than Mexico’s

MEXICO CITY -- Nearly every day in El Salvador, police have what they call "enfrentamientos" -- or confrontations -- with the powerful street gangs that blanket the country. Another word for this is a  "shootout." So the announcement last week by the director of the National Civil Police, Howard Cotto, that police have done this […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/10/31/el-salvadors-security-forces-are-now-involved-in-more-shootouts-than-mexicos/