The corner of Gómez and Independencia is one of the Distrito Nacional's busiest yet
manageable intersections. Everyone wants a piece of the traffic flow. The northwest corner is …

Startled and still a little drowsy I look around me, and realize where I am. Despite the heat,
the bumping and the shaking, I dozed off in the 639 bus, which leaves from near the San …

In a country that contented itself with being “exceptional” among Latin American nations,
avoiding civil wars, major guerrilla movements, or a significant presence of gangs in the …

Over the past decades the street gangs Mara Salvatrucha (MS) and 18th Street Gang (18st)
have become extremely powerful actors in El Salvador and its capital city. These …

Violence has been a chronic feature of Latin American and Caribbean societies. It takes
many forms and has a wide range of social, political, and economic consequences …

En los años 1995 y 1996 estuve en El Salvador para hacer una investigación sobre la
organización social en un barrio de refugiados, resultante del desplazamiento de la …

As the streets begin emptying at night, combined milita ry-police units sweep into the city's
ba rrios marginales—the poor neighborhoods surrounding the city, on the slopes of the …

Abstract In Latin American cities, such as Caracas, where luxurious shopping malls contrast
with walled in neighborhoods and precarious barrios, violence has become a daily event …

The presence of gangs in Nicaragua is not a new or unique phenomenon. Groups of
adolescents involved in activities tied to delinquency can be traced back to at least the …

Up to the early 2000s, Dominicans were very aware of the high levels of violence in
Kingston, Jamaica (UNDP 2012) and San Juan, Puerto Rico (Nervares-Muniz 1996; Gumo …