Snapshots of the Fortnight (8-20 June 2012)

A gang member and inmate looks through a hole on a prison wall in Quetzaltepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador, June 16, 2012. Saturday marked the 100th day of an unprecedented truce between two violent Salvadoran gangs to reduce the high rate of homicides in the Central American country, which has begun to yield the expected results, said the Catholic church. The leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang and their rival 18, decided last March to end the fighting and killing among them to reduce the alarming murder rates in the impoverished country