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it's 3:00 a.m. in san salvador and
police are rounding up gang members
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dozens of cops are spreading out all
over the poor neighborhood of so you're
paying them
about to go house to house right now
uh-huh I got search warrants and they're
looking for gang members
inside Jimenez handle
his tattoo was proof of his membership
in the 18th Street gang otherwise known
as Diaz he
the woman tells police that her
boyfriend is just a mechanic despite his
massive gang tattoo
what does this man be in charge
dozens of gang members are arrested in
the nighttime raid
we're here along with members of the
local press so the government can show
off its iron fist policy in action with
a big show of force
that same night a few kilometers away in
downtown San Salvador there's a
different show of force the third car
bomb to go off outside a government
office in recent weeks
it's a new chapter in a conflict many
are now calling a war the gangs are
blamed
last week there was a bomb placed
outside the justice mystery and about
half an hour ago behind me a car bomb
exploded outside the tax mystery this is
sort of the latest tactic they've been
using there been grenades thrown inside
police stations police have been
targeted all year but the whole car bomb
thing is really new and really scary
there are two huge and powerful street
gangs in El Salvador Mara Salvatrucha or
ms-13 and barrio Daz Ocho or 18th Street
they've been fighting a brutal battle
for territory for decades but now they
are also fighting a new enemy as the
police and military have been ordered to
crush them violence has now risen to
levels that haven't been seen - the
country's civil war
nearly 700 murders in June and over 900
in August you know Salvador these days
there's one murder an hour for a pretty
small country only 6 million people it
doesn't take long when you're you know
going out at night to stumble upon a
scene like this with a body laying dead
in the streets and that's that's pretty
much what people here are living with
he's just constant shootings and murders
right now El Salvador is on track to be
the nation with the highest homicide
rate in the world it is because of what
the supreme court calls organized
violence against the state including
killings by gangs of bus drivers which
forced the shutdown of the country's
transport system that it has given them
a new name
terrorists a name not typically used to
describe street gangs
there are an estimated 60,000 gang
members in El Salvador but as many as
half a million people depend on the
gangs for their livelihoods in a nation
of 6.3 million as many as 1 and 12
people have ties to the gangs
Raul Marengo a former guerrilla help
broker a truce between the gangs in 2012
initially backed by the government it
collapsed after they pulled support my
angle thinks that attacking the gangs
will only make things worse if
experiment that is a study being honest
it doesn't again I you know citizen them
friend Tom Ian took a sir produce a Tolo
Diaz tostada Hondo cerca de Trentham
where to the area Yoga meant like a look
a mass producing what the Lord is a free
mental
this new application of the word terror
terrorists that the government's using
to describe the gangsters what is what
does that mean for the whole situation I
mean my buddies a kiss a phone accessory
difficult the terrorists Alemannia
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segundo lugar pony em peligro de cologne
say por ciento de la población salvar el
estado trauma narration dia say a
consider a como terrorist ax y esto no
cambiar de el pais o master or esta el
mundo how do you see this working out do
you think this is the right solution is
all-out war on the gang members let's
200 Priscilla a demonstrable cameras
will make problemo por el contrary oh
well mucho maja Gullu la única Perry
Enza de éxito que se to fou el proceso
que le amo trewe que fuera unico caligra
reducir the kill Sammy Cesar Diaz a
single
now after the truce failed the murder
rate is the highest it's been since El
Salvador's brutal civil war in the 1980s
in which 75,000 people were killed
the war was fought between a right-wing
government supported by the US and
left-wing guerrillas among them the FMLN
or Farah boondi Marti National
Liberation Front which is now the ruling
party in government
you've been quoted as saying the
government itself now should recognize
that one point they too have been
murderers they had extorted as well what
do you mean by that Allah family na insu
momento Celica live eco their link
cuentas it amended our orestes
porque Matala porque sequester Allah por
que tenia control the territory oh and
no record no seven guests a phenomenal
que tenemos tiene la meme a
characteristic as a structuralist Gaelic
a - ilaria in the road what do you see
as the difference in the situation
between what's happening right now and
what happens in early 2012 when you were
negotiating the truth why están cerrados
Toa Payoh por el de algo cuando el
gobierno me mata dicen que el hierro
mata yerim where lo que esta tarde esta
noche and O'Gara yes ln Guaje la pena
ruin tiene muy bien
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we sat down with journalist Jose Luis
silenced the editor-in-chief of the
controversial el faro newspaper to try
to get a better idea of what's going on
his paper revealed the existence of
police death squads carrying out
point-blank executions of suspected gang
members they chose la manera la louvière
no lost
proyecta no hace el Oso cidades como una
Guerra a baja Sevilla's inevitable days
como una Guerra yeah un amigo eliminar
como una gata en Buena parte de los
homicidio yell gobierno Rico no fellows
comment a la policia ministro de defensa
de agua decir que por encima del noventa
poor Sein era de las víctimas Aaron
Pandi heroes como si la sociedad no
tuviera que preocupe RC entonces de la
cantidad de Muertos en todo caso on C
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we're about to head out with Los Altos
which means the Hawks they are one of
the premier rapid response teams
operating in El Salvador today and their
job is to basically go out and engage if
there's an emergency they get to shoot
us with the gangs and things like that
there's Arden 25 people murdered today
it's not even 8 p.m. and they just told
us that one of their units took fire
early this afternoon so it's probably
gonna be an interesting evening
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what's the situation in this
neighborhood here
in Hawaii in Toronto on the idea
which of the neighborhood was
revolutionary owes and you know
and if your neighborhoods
extra
money I give you a future that that will
essentially Revere an Iranian
Revolution area
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estimate and oh allah policia
right then the police spot two suspects
and go after them
Fernando had been the principal they
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just saw two suspects they're being
chased right now they were running out
officers say the men were posted as
lookouts letting the gangs know who was
coming in and out of the neighborhood
these guys here are alleged members of
18th Street Revolutionary owes the the
officer seemed pretty sure and they say
that when they see them generally they
run they either trying to stash their
weapons or they run to a house with an
open door
if a local career event real apology is
ready press analysis you get an
wonderful baller there was Nancy Anthony
Stefano telephone apparel for Marilu
demarcus tank oh no silly seafood can
you automatically just arrest anyone for
being poor again salicylic acid mando
como un perro lista de que esto no KS
tan aburrida
Mezen brando Tyrolean keto la sociedad
Salvadoran Atalla población Sylvania an
optimist I got a media streamer hasta de
Finetti Java ickiness una placebo para
tratar de the Casa Cielo
it's kind of hard to reconcile how
powerful and organized the gangs
actually are they sometimes look like a
group of disorganized scrawny teenagers
but in this state of war with the gangs
even the fiercest police are so scared
of their capacity for murder and
vengeance they were masked to hide their
identities
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de familia de centigrade --is pobres
extrema la única you where's Aviva Uriel
exist a new estrus comunidades se llaman
Pandya
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