MANO DURA: THE POLITICS OF GANG CONTROL IN EL SALVADOR.

In doing so, Wolf demonstrates how these circumstances prompted the creation of - and the government's public rationalization for - the gang policies of Mano Dura and Súper Mano Dura in the postwar period, from 1992 to the present. Sonja Wolf's Mano Dura makes an important contribution to discourse on contemporary El Salvador and its failure to adopt comprehensive gang policy reform. According to Wolf, coverage by news organizations, especially the prominent daily newspapers La Prensa Gráfi ca and El Diario de Hoy, had a pro-government bias and aimed to create widespread public acceptance of Mano Dura. [Extracted from the article]