BBCNEWS Our July 6, 2024
..imposing emergency security measures and giving police sweeping powers of arrest. thousands are now behind bars. and the country is transforming before people's eyes. but there's a dark underside hidden from view. human rights groups are dismayed, as are relatives, as thousands have been arbitrarily arrested. peace may have come to el salvador, but at what price? teacher audelia has lived here since the late 1990s — la campanera in the capital's notorious soyapango district. more than 20 years ago, rival gangs the ms—13 and the 18th street gang took control of neighbourhoods ac...