State Department Issues El Salvador Travel Warning
The State Department on Aug. 9 issued a travel warning for El Salvador, advising U.S. citizens to be vigilant of their surroundings at all times, to travel in groups and to avoid walking around at night. The department also cautions…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
U.S. citizens against exhibiting wealth. The warning says tens of thousands of U.S. citizens travel safely to El Salvador every year for business and vacation, but crime remains rampant in the country. Since 2010, 25 U.S. citizens have been murdered in the country, the department says, while noting it does not believe Americans were targeted because of their nationality. The warning says transnational criminal groups are powerful in El Salvador, routinely committing crimes such as murder-for-hire, carjacking, extortion, armed robbery, rapes, and other aggravated assaults.