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Coverage of mega-jails in the Nexus archive.

Earliest in view: Jun 17 · 11:44 UTCMost recent: Jun 17 · 11:44 UTC
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  • SECURITYJun 17 · 11:44 UTCTHE RIO TIMES
    Why Ecuador’s Copy of El Salvador’s Crime Crackdown Is Failing

    Ecuador’s president adopted El Salvador’s hard-line strategy against gangs, including deploying the army and building mega-jails, but the approach has failed with rising killings and prison massacres. The article attributes the failure to Ecuador’s gangs being drug-trafficking networks, unlike El Salvador’s gang structure.