Caribbean & Central America - April 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

One year ago there were 14 homicides per day in El Salvador; now there are just five per day. “We have found a solution to diminish violence which is unorthodox but which has brought us very good results,” the justice and public security minister, David Munguía Payés, told the permanent council of the Organization of American States (OAS) this month. That unorthodox solution is the gang truce signed between the country’s two main mara gangs - MS-13 and Barrio 18 – and smaller gangs in March 2012.

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