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El Salvador's gangs have made a truce. The murder rate has plummeted. Can it last?
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San Salvador
The streets of San Salvador are much safer since the truce began
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Carlos Tiberio Valladares is a leader of Mara Salvatrucha
He says he is committed to the truce with rival gang 18th Street
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Many prisoners get their first gang tattoos while in prison as teenagers
This 18th Street member has XV3 tattooed on his forehead and 666 on his chin - 6+6+6 = 18
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A Mara Salvatrucha member shows his facial tattoos
He comes from the Majucla barrio in San Salvador.
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Mara Salvatrucha leaders meet in Cuidad Barrios prison
They discuss whether or not to speak on the radio: the answer is yes.
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Ciudad Barrios prison is extremely overcrowded
Here in the prison's evangelical church inmates find room by hanging from the ceiling.
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El Salvador
El Salvador's gangs have made a truce. The murder rate has plummeted. Can it last?
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Assignment El Salvador
El Salvador's gangs have made a truce. The murder rate has plummeted. Can it last?
First broadcast: 20 Dec 2012
