Overview
- Lawmakers approved President Bernardo Arevalo’s nationwide measure for 30 days following synchronized prison uprisings and coordinated attacks on officers.
- The state of siege suspends rights of assembly and demonstration and allows arrests and interrogations without judicial warrants.
- Authorities say they regained control of three prisons and freed dozens of hostages taken by inmates protesting transfers of gang leaders to a high-security facility.
- Police reported the leader known as El Lobo was neutralized during the Renovación I operation, releasing video from inside the facility.
- Nine police officers have died in related attacks; the government declared three days of national mourning, held funerals Monday, suspended classes, and mobilized the army to patrol and target organized-crime structures.