El Salvador remains one of the most violent countries in the world undergoing a murder epidemic. The blatant rise in social violence is driven mainly by gangs of the Northern Triangle countries (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador), which frequently clash with governmental security forces. The situation legally blurred the lines between the law enforcement and armed conflict regimes. An insufficient amount of time has been dedicated to identifying the applicable international legal framework to El Salvador’s extreme gang violence and its repression. Consequently, the country’s categorization of violence has not been addressed. For this purpose, a contextual background narration of the politics of violence in the country followed by a detailed analysis of the constituent elements of El Salvador’s urban violence were examined. The assessment of facts and their juxtaposition to international jurisprudential criteria and doctrinal contributions on conflict classification suggest the situation reached international humanitarian law’s armed conflict brink.

萨尔瓦多仍然是世界上最凶杀的国家之一。社会暴力的公然上升主要是由经常与政府安全部队发生冲突的北三角国家（危地马拉，洪都拉斯和萨尔瓦多）的帮派推动的。这种情况从法律上模糊了执法与武装冲突制度之间的界限。没有足够的时间专门用于确定适用于萨尔瓦多极端帮派暴力及其镇压的国际法律框架。因此，该国对暴力的分类尚未得到解决。为此，审查了该国暴力政治的背景情况叙述，然后详细分析了萨尔瓦多城市暴力的构成要素。