Country risk assessment: El Salvador
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El Salvador has the highest homicide rate in Central America due to the presence of street gangs, known as 'Maras' that are engaged in a myriad of 'turf wars' and that have a culture of extreme violence. With the operation 'Firm Hand', though the police arrested all youths with gang tattoos and forced the Maras to adopt a low profile, the operations forced the gangs to increase their level of sophistication.
Publication Name: Jane's Intelligence Review
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0955-1247
Year: 2004
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Criminal state of play: An examination of state-crime relations in post-Soviet Union Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
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The organized crime in Central Asia has forged links with state officials and institutions, with drugs from Afghanistan playing a major role in the shadow economy of the region. Reasons behind this situation are analyzed with particular reference to two of the poorest countries in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that are important transit countries for Afghan heroin.
Publication Name: Jane's Intelligence Review
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0955-1247
Year: 2007
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European operation disrupts Turkish Marxist group
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A Europe-wide operation on the activities of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, a Turkish Marxist revolutionary organization, indicates the heightened concern about a terrorist threat to the NATO summit in Istanbul in June 2004. The group's ongoing terrorist activities and the counter measures taken by the European police and Turkish police are reported.
Publication Name: Jane's Intelligence Review
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0955-1247
Year: 2004
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