El Salvador continues to deal with gang issues

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR - AUGUST 16: Agents of the National Civil Police (PNC), and members of the Salvadoran army inspect some houses, during an operation in neighborhoods of the municipality of Soyapango, in San Salvador, El Salvador, on August 16, 2022. El Salvador has an exception regime since March 27, 2022, to combat the violence generated by gangs. The Government, headed by the president, Nayib Bukele, could extend for the fifth time this measure that suspends constitutional controls and grants broad discretion to the Executive Power. Security authorities announce that there are more than 50 thousand suspects detained. In recent decades, the history of El Salvador has been marked by gang violence, reaching one of the highest homicide and crime rates in the world. (Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)