Salvador - Online newspaper awaits protection after being threatened by gangs

Reporters without borders

The staff of the San Salvador-based online newspaper El Faro are very worried about the threats they have been receiving in connection with a series of stories about El Salvador's feared criminal gangs, known as Maras. Speaking to Reporters Without Borders, El Faro editor Carlos Dada flatly denied reports that the newspaper had been offered protection by the internal security minister, Gen. David Munguía Payés. “I was given no such undertaking,” he told us. The need for protection is (...)

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