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MS-13 gang members at a prison in Chalatenango, El Salvador, in September 2018. The state of emergency was triggered by the massacre of 87 people by MS-13 gang members over three days in March 2022, the bloodiest weekend since the end of El Salvador’s civil war in 1992. Salvadoran journalists from the investigative news outlet El Faro reported that the killing spree stemmed from the breakdown of a secret truce between the gang and the government of President Nayib Bukele.

Post author By Sovah Woydak
Post date August 23, 2024

Land Acknowledgement The Gallatin Galleries is located on the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in this territory in harmony for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed, but some also remain among the historical tribal communities of the region. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory and we affirm the aspiration of the Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the Indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land.