LAS COLINAS, el Salvador (AP) - on Thursday the missing boy, spent nearly three weeks, police found a mass grave.
July 11,, the police investigation, wore ski masks to hide their identity, dig out the dead, most young 15. Standing in the cry of the mother's body was pulled out, with curious trace food and silver.
Munguia Payes, el Salvador, justice and security minister, general David said, kill people work Malawi Salvatrucha or MS - 13, two notorious gang of el Salvador, regularly visit campus recruiting children - usually by one of the force. The police investigation pointed out that buried the remaining meal. MS - 13 recruiters, he says, may be trying to persuade young people join the group using general methods: stoking cake and soda.
When they rejected, he says, they was stabbed to death.
Six months later, el Salvador contributed to a historic armistice, officials were divided into two between rival gangs to curb the country's difficult homicide rate more than whether the practical work of a truce. In march this year, MS - 13 and its competitors, Barry Mr 18, swear to end the slaughter and forced recruitment, in exchange for a better condition of the jailed gang leader, the bars on the running their business. The maximum security prison from Zacatecoluca, the government will each gang boss, nickname "Zacatraz," general prison, where they will teach their slave order, in the street, it is to stick to the armistice.
The gang, in Guatemala and Honduras, is seeking the armistice negotiations in these countries.
But crime experts carlos Ponce, el Salvador attorney-general office, said, the truce is false.
"He said," this is a lie, gang continue to work, continue to be killed, people are constantly disappear, this gang is strong.
Safety and the justice department's report, in 2012 in the first eight months of murder has fallen by more than 30%, to 1894 points. In most cases, the national coroner's office confirmed these Numbers, but the two agencies agree, how many people are gradually disappear. The security said, in the first half of this year 335 disappeared in forensic research institute said the number was 1279.
"These figures are very strange," said Ponce. "They said murder is falling, they deny that missing, but evidence, these year 5 students, everything is still in progress. The gangs are adopting the new method to operate, it is very possible." Not in the eyes of the leave their victims, he says, they hide them.
The department of justice denied this view, saying his number is based on the investigation and missing, and the coroner office count all the missing people report, many of them were without verification.
"Overall, we did not increase. We can't keep strict control people were registered as missing, because the family don't delete their reports, when people to appear," Munguia Payes.
An estimated 50000 el Salvador belong to frightened citizens street gangs and left the world one of the highest murder rate, after neighbors Honduras and central American countries 6 million. Although in order to stop the violence, armistice agreement does not apply to the kidnapping, extortion or drug sales, the criminal's core business.
"I think, armistice is really a farce, in the United States army war college strategy research in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the professor said:" the biggest Manwaring. "The gang hold all the CARDS, they have been operating for years, has become a prison prison graduate school, gang members, the government fundamental grasp" life-saving straw.
Like other people tracking truce of el Salvador experiment, Manwaring suspected murder digital.
"Is there any way to expect they can't. There is a lot of local government officials can't go to investigating the murder, because this gang control territory."
Truce mediated raul Mijango, guerrillas in el Salvador 12 years of civil war, then Congressman. The Associated Press reports, he said: "some groups are trying to make truce looks very bad, they kill gang members the conflict between gangs. Say, missing number had increased to those who want to see a truce that failure."
El Salvador security officials have been unable to curb violence gang's promotion, thus forming in California prison, and spread to Central America, its members by the American deportation
In el Salvador, police said, about 10000 members of the Barrio 18, MS - 13 in prison. The rest is in the streets, and in all parts of the country's poor community las corinna nearby town, the five boy was found, including maintaining strict control.
In Mejicanos, in capital SAN Salvador, graffiti announced that MS - 13 "power." Those who enter must comply with the law. Rival gangs and the police set aside the only enterprise have elite troops and night.
Once a person enter, gang members walked out of their hiding place. They realize that be let through. Surrounded by to strangers, to search, interrogation - and then instruct pay mobile.
"In order to promote their own products, clerks must pay a monthly fee, if they do this, they survive, but they will always be, and looked, and said:" Juan AiSiKeWaEr, soft drinks suppliers. "If they want to own soft drinks, you delivered to them over, otherwise they angry."
The neighbors said, murder is less, but fear is still ruled the streets.
"Yes, it is true, murder has gone down, but we don't know the long time the truce will continue," said Domitila martinez, 53, a street suppliers in g SaErTe peck, heavier gang activity is one of the fields, about 30 km (20 miles) northeast of SAN Salvador.
"I can't say too much, they may kill me, you don't know how they are, we find themselves trapped in the gang of civilian, we have learned to live."
According to the armistice agreement, its members of the jailed gang-leaders in prison received "close to visit", in the cells of the plasma TV and free to communicate with the outside world.
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