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Murderous gangs turn urban El Salvador into battlefield
She was in Ilopango, a poor neighbourhood of San Salvador, and a light drizzle was falling. She did not want to get wet but her fellow gang members had given her orders. Besides, unless she did it she would never earn the tattoo they had promised her. I really wanted that tattoo, she recalls. She took a 9mm pistol and went in search of a victim. It was 1992 and she was 12. Nelly is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha, the biggest of several gangs that are turning the poor urban areas of El Salvador into a battlefield barely 14 years after the country emerged from a long and bloody civil war. Posted by: lotp 2006-06-03 |
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