Tiziano Breda, senior analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean at the conflict monitor ACLED, said the gangs were displaced and “adapted to this new reality.” Their violence became less public and as homicides fell, forced disappearances rose, he said.
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“You give the public something to showcase to divert attention from the fact that you’re doing it while eroding the rule of law and democratic checks and balances in the country,” said Tiziano Breda, a Central America expert at Italy’s Instituto Affari Internazionali.
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