This Americas Society policy brief highlights the role of the private sector in violence prevention to provide a more nuanced grasp of the space that can be filled by the business community.
After a private AS/COA roundtable in El Salvador on security and violence prevention, the minister discussed the results of El Salvador's gang truce and whether it is a model that could be replicated in Guatemala and Honduras.
El ministro habló con AS/COA sobre los resultados de la tregua entre las pandillas en El Salvador y si es replicable en Guatemala y Honduras.
A constitutional crisis imperiling the balance of power in El Salvador has resulted in two opposing groups of Supreme Court justices.
Writing for World Politics Review, AS/COA's Jason Marczak examines the need for cross-border, multi-faceted strategies to combat violence in Central America.
"There is an opportunity, and we have to take advantage of it, not as a government but as a country," said the technical secretary to El Salvador's president Alexander Segovia, speaking about the challenge of taking the gang truce announced on March 9 to implement a broader, and sustainable national security agreement. (en español)
"The solution is not the prisons, but how we can bring the youth onto the academic and employment sectors through a comprehensive integration policy," said the technical secretary to El Salvador's president Alexander Segovia during a May 18 discussion at COA.
