El Salvador deploys 10,000 troops to capital suburb in massive gang crackdown

SAN SALVADOR , EL SALVADOR - DECEMBER 5: A police officer checks a house during an operative performed in the city of Soyapango in San Salvador, El Salvador, on December 5, 2022. The Salvadoran government ordered as part of it's "Plan Control Territorial" security policy the lockdown of the town of Soyapango as phase five of the policy. So far more than 9,500 police and soldiers occupy the countries most densely populated city with operatives and checkpoints that have left at least 140 gang members captured according to President Nayib Bukele. (Photo by Alex Pena/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)