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Related: About this forumUS-funded police linked to illegal executions in El Salvador
Story by Nick Paton Walsh, Barbara Arvanitidis and Bryan Avelar
San Salvador, El Salvador (CNN) -- The United States has quietly funded and equipped elite paramilitary police officers in El Salvador who are accused of illegally executing gang members, CNN has learned.
Successive US administrations have pumped tens of millions of dollars into Salvadoran law enforcement and military to shore up the governments Mano Dura or Firm Hand program, first launched in 2003 but redoubled in 2014 to tackle the countrys rampant gang problem.
Yet the countrys police will be broadly accused next month of a pattern of behavior by security personnel amounting to extrajudicial executions in a United Nations report, seen in advance by CNN, that will also call on Salvadoran security forces to break a cycle of impunity in which killings are rarely punished.
One police unit that killed 43 alleged gang members in the first six months of last year received significant US funding, CNN can reveal. Several of those deaths have been investigated as murders by Salvadoran police.
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https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/05/world/el-salvador-police-intl/
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US-funded police linked to illegal executions in El Salvador (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2018
OP
I couldn't believe it when I saw it! That's so unlike the U.S. gummint, isn't it?
Judi Lynn
Jun 2018
#2
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)1. Same as it ever was
US backed death squads in Central and South America? What a shocker.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)2. I couldn't believe it when I saw it! That's so unlike the U.S. gummint, isn't it?
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)3. sounds like the School of the America's all over again