Topic: La Mara Salvatrucha Street Gang

Good news from Central America: Homicides fall in Guatemala, El Salvador

Attributed, in part, to an evolution away from hardline 'iron fist' policy approaches to crime and violence, El Salvador and Guatemala saw homicides fall in 2012 from record highs.

Opinion In fighting gangs, US should look to El Salvador

MS-13 gang labeled transnational criminal group, a first for US street gang

MS-13 gang: Why US Treasury is after the gang's assets

Latin America Monitor El Salvador: Historic gang truce brings mixed results

Human trafficking: a misunderstood global scourge

Latin America Monitor Ending gang violence and creating peace: Colombia's lessons for El Salvador

Latin America Monitor El Salvador sees drop in murders but rise in disappearances

US prison inmates returning to society: How will they be received?

Latin America Monitor Building on success: How El Salvador is trying to keep gang violence down

Latin America Monitor Indicted: US soldiers offer to serve as hired guns for Mexican gangs

Latin America Monitor Is El Salvador negotiating with criminal street gangs?

Latin America Monitor Exporting Nicaragua's citizen security model

Latin America Monitor El Salvador gets 'tough' amid worsening crime

Latin America Monitor Are El Salvador’s gangs plotting to 'take down the system'?

Latin America Monitor Honduras: home to the most violent city in the hemisphere?

ACLU: FBI guilty of 'industrial scale' racial profiling

How Nicaragua has been spared Central America's crime wave – so far

Mexico nabs Zetas gang's No. 3 leader, but will it stop the cartel?

Central American drug war, crime top agenda at regional summit

Gang arrests a blow to Mexican cartels' reach north of the border

Guatemala gangs to bus drivers: pay a fee, or risk death

Guatemala slowly confronts widespread rape of women