El Salvador is set to eclipse Honduras as the country with the highest
homicide rate in the world. There have already been over 5,700 murders
this year in a country with a population of just over six million. El
Salvador’s murder rate is now the highest it’s been since the end of the
country’s brutal civil war — there is on average around one murder an
hour.
The staggering death toll follows the breakdown of a truce
between powerful, rival gangs and the government. Police and military
are now combatting the gangs head-on and, as part of its so-called
"iron fist" strategy, gang members are being charged with a new crime
— membership of a terrorist organization.
VICE News
correspondent Danny Gold headed to El Salvador to investigate what many
are now calling a war between the street gangs and the government.
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