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Tomas Munita, 2ndo premio, 2013

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  • Edwin Leonel Hueso, 23, member of Mara 18, in prision for 4 years at Centro Penal Quetzaltepeque, in the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador. August 16, 2012. Traffickers have used Central America as a stopover point since at least the 1970s. But the aggressive crackdowns on criminal organizations in Mexico and Colombia, coupled with strides in limiting smuggling across the Caribbean, have increasingly brought the powerful syndicates here, pushing the drug scourge deeper into small Central American countries incapable of combating it.<br />
Photo/Tomas Munita for The New Times
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  • Policemen members of the Grupo de Intervencion Antipandillas (Anti gangs intervention group) search for young men looking for weapons or tatoos identifying them as member of a gang, in an neighborhood know to be a gangs hotspot in El Salvador. San Salvador, August 14, 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • A gang member from Mara Salvatrucha known as Jose Miel, right,18, smokes crack with friends in an abandoned house in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. March 12, 2011.  He was abandoned by his parents when he was a young boy, he is addict to crack since he was 13, and now lives with the gang and deal with drugs. Photo/Tomas Munita  ***IMPORTANT - DONT PUBLISH IN HONDURAS***
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  • Wendy Maritza Rodriguez, 38, (left) reacts after she recognized the body of her adopted son with her sister Estela Marisol Rodriguez, 37, (R) at the morgue of the Insituto Medico Legal of San Salvador, El Salvador. August 15, 2012.  Jonathan manuel Peña, 27, a former member of the gang Mara Salvatrucha was shot from the back the night before. He left the mara 6 years ago and had some of his tatoos erased, but for the "mareros" is difficult to leave their past, the gangs have a saying "o vivis por la mara o moris por la mara" "either you live for the mara or you die for the mara" meaning that there is no way out.  Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • The body of an assasinated young man at the morgue of Instituto Medico Legal in San Salvador, El Salvador. He was shot twice in the face and stabed in several parts of his body. August 15, 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Some of the main leaders of Mara Salvatrucha that were transfered from a High Security jail, at the prision Centro Penal Ciudad Barrios, in El Salvador. August 14, 2012.<br />
When top leaders of two of the hemisphere’s most violent street gangs sat across from one another in the stifling air of a maximum security prison earlier this year, the encounter had a very different aim: peace. With a military chaplain and a former lawmaker officiating, the imprisoned gang leaders held a moment of silence for the thousands of people their street armies had killed. After a few more meetings — and the government’s concession to transfer 30 of the leaders to less-restrictive conditions — they shook hands on a pact to put an end to the killings. “We said we have to talk because things are getting out of hand,” said Carlos Tiberio Valladares, a leader serving time for murder who has tattoos of his gang etched across his face. “No one is going to tell you they want their kids to continue on this path.” Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Police officers run to catch a young man accused of attacking his neighbor with a gun in Limon, Costa Rica, March 6, 2011. Limon is becoming extremely violent since a couple of years ago when drug cartels are operating in the city, an important route of the drug going to the north. In the past decades drug dealers were paying money to the people involved in drug trafficking, but since few years ago the payment is in drugs, making the population addict. Drug related killings are becoming more and more common, as well as violence in general. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • A man is taken out of the car after he was shot by a group of young men in Limon, Costa Rica, March 6, 2011. He survived, but the reason for the attack is unclear. Limon is becoming extremely violent since a couple of years ago when drug cartels are operating in the city, an important route of the drug going to the north. In the past decades drug dealers were paying money to the people involved in drug trafficking, but since few years ago the payment is in drugs, making the population addict. Drug related killings are becoming more and more common, as well as violence in general. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Gang members of Mara 18 at Centro Penal Quetzaltepeque, El Salvador. August 16, 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Drug addicts rehabilitation center "Hogar Crea" during English lessons, in Siquirres, near Limon, Costa Rica, March 7, 2011. Less than 20 children attend voluntarily the rehab center, the program takes around a year and a half but most of the children fail in the process or after. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Prisioners members of the Mara Salvatrucha during a evangelical religious cult directed by a "shepherd" visiting woman, in a overcrowded temple inside Centro Penal Ciudad Barrios, in San Salvador, August 14, 2012. Photo/Tomas Munita.
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  • Fernando Ferre, 17, digs the grave for his neighbor Karla Pinto, 23, a mother of three who was killed with two shots in the head in Choloma, a town outside San Pedro de Sula, Honduras, March 11, 2011. The reason for the attack is unclear, but the maras operate in the area and make people pay what is know as Impuesto de Guerra, or War Tax, anyone refusing or failing to pay is executed. Drug trafficking is another problem, and drug related killings are common, as well as robberies and kidnapping. The Hospital Mario Catarino Rivas - San Pedro´s public hospital, attended in 2010 1098 wounded by knife, 1070 wounded by guns and 472 died in the hospital for violent attacks. Photo/Tomas Munita
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