This was most evident in March 2012, Barrio 18 leaders and their rivals in the MS-13 agreed to a nationwide “truce,” which was mediated by a government envoy and the Catholic Church and facilitated by the government. As a result of this ceasefire, the homicide rate in the country plummeted. What’s more, following a series of violent incidents in prisons between the Barrio 18 and the MS-13, Salvadoran officials separated inmates from the two gangs from each other. The leaders increased their control over criminal acts, such as extortion, from inside the prisons. According to versions (of the events), some prisoners entered with weapons and selectively murdered the others, there were even 4 police officers who were kidnapped,' Valle said. Outside of prison, the street gangs fight one another; inside, they form a single unit under the leadership of the Mafia.

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