Sira Sira says the gang violence in El Salvador is a difficult problem to tackle. Previous governments have done what he is doing at crack down as well as potentially some negotiations in secret. But this chronic violence needs to tackle, be tackled by the root causes, not just to crack down. And so you're likely to get these spikes keep flaring and keep happening.
Much like Ukraine, Taiwan has a well-armed neighbour that does not think it exists as a state: China. We ask what both sides are learning from Russia’s invasion. A heavy-handed string of arrests following a flare-up of gang violence in El Salvador is unlikely to change matters. And an analysis reveals the connection between weather and whether voters support climate-change legislation.
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