El Salvador’s streets safer, thanks to gang truce
El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world. But police say murders have been cut in half since March.
That’s when a former guerilla and a catholic bishop brokered a truce between two of the country’s most violent gangs.
Guest host Maria Hinojosa talks with Alex Sanchez, a former gang member, and director of the gang intervention group Homies Unidos. Hinojosa is also joined by Carlos Dada, editor of an online newspaper in El Salvador.
Read the transcript of the NPR interview here.
