you try out the walkie talkie i tell you where you go you show you show you tell you. i don't think from what i we're going to patrol on the other side. some of the men carry guns. letter after 5 minutes they reach a central square. don't because i was already doing over there going along with a lot of hands up turn around there's another term for them for we're going for the valleys and. this is. going to evolve in kind of going after someone they've got to go search their pockets. check their shoes or look at them. and their problems are not on the floor you know it doesn't get out of the front of. the boys had drugs on the. it's part of the one. where did you get i saw her.

look a bit so you. can put i don't i don't smoke that crap around here i mean that he won't burn in front of the woman's job though. sorry hoarseness same idiocy. we won't do it again. get out of here coming out of. cannabis is a banned substance in guatemala. allen confiscate the drugs and sends the 3 boys home. half an hour later they spot 2 more suspects. we don't want to see with his crap again get out of here we're going to get the 2 teenagers were smoking joints. or. they quickly disappear. at the edge of the neighborhood well into group meets another patrol.

at this checkpoint anyone who wants to enter budesonide night has to identify themselves. with everything ok. the local residents have installed 5 checkpoints like this one they control who enters the neighborhood. the strategy seems to be working as the area has become safer. but sometimes the gangs do find a way and. in july 2803 men attacked a delivery van leaving 3 people injured because of the attack was filmed by a surveillance camera. one of the attackers sent a message to allen vigilante group. having

a safe neighborhood comes at a cost. in just 3 years 5 members of the vigilante groups have been murdered by the moderates. on the day of one funeral the other members fire their weapons in honor of the dead. cause. thanks to the nighttime patrols peace has returned to the neighborhood. while the streets of the capital empty in the evening no one in. the store stay open after dark and residents walk the streets without fear.

of. such a welcome development for business owners to come to the. they keep the criminals away. either and because it is everyone here happy about it and it will be yes everyone's happy when we'll stick together there aren't any problems. but the security guarantee isn't free. business owners have to pay around $4.00 heroes per week to have their stores protected. with some accuse the vigilantes themselves of running a protection racket. but the amount is only a fraction of what the modest demand plus there is no peace. because the state is incapable of protecting its citizens they've taken the law into their own hands. and it's likely to stay that way for a long time to come. a

modest continue to recruit members not difficult in a country where more than half of the population lives in poverty. young people with no prospects find a new family in the form of the gangs. and they're happy to embrace the notorious lobby of. the crazy life of violence robbery and murder. who are these young people. we meet with mario our intermediary. he describes himself as a former gang member. he still maintains close contact with some members of baggio 18. yeah it's me i'm by the corner but on the very up it's getting late. yes i'll wait for you to. listen. to. 15 minutes after the

call 4 young men pull up in a car. with a loyalist on his 1st they're suspicious and i don't know but after a half hour or intermediary is able to convince them to talk to us for the interview we follow them to a nearby squat. 2 women and 4 men live here in a simple toiling in a back yard they're all around 20 years old. he says. because of the it is years boy's death when your kids are as. good. as this. for these 4 becoming a gang member is

a childhood dream come true. so that oh it was good not good i'm going to give you as you got it well let me tell you when you join the gang things are good they give you clothes food and lots of money to do anything that's possible when body only 18 supports him but on the night it was well it was a on a mortal for sure we love the gang that's why we do everything the bosun's and. if i move it will go on the old way was. in just a few years they've risen through the ranks of their gang from mere helpers to contract killers. to. the dozen but. we always carry a gun for protection thinking about it but i get out we can shoot anyone the minute we get the order. we don't ask why. it was you know my friend

i have a lot of guns i have one of them here. i guess what type of gun is it. it's on the 9 millimeter. and that's the deal here. that. the young men seem happy with their gangster lifestyle. then by. using that. there's more than a little fatalism in their voices for one that isn't how do you see your future. your know to be honest i don't believe in having a future in good order that is where i know that i risk my life every day i live in the here and now that's what matters. to. the kids not. if someone like a school that enough will suffer more because life of risk and adventure. look. for most young men like the one of 2 fates awaits them prison or premature death.

hardly anyone manages to escape the clutches of the gangs. one person who did this in la you will not. it's one of the most violent 5 a license guatemala city. here we meet x. gang member christiane. the 28 year old is a paraplegic and lives with his parents. one day in 2010 christiane's lobby loka came to an abrupt end. he was robbing a bus when he was shot in the spine. being in a gang has taken everything from him except his life. maybe i was seeking refuge with them. i like the way they dressed and.

i wanted to be like them. i never imagined the joining a gang would bring me so many problems in my. life and. bring one for your wife to. christiane has left body only 18 he now works as a tattoo artist a skilled profession that earned him respect in the past. looking at these colors i couldn't quite get the same result for you it would be darker here and completely black than. some of his customers are also former members who now want to get rid of their gang affiliation tattoos. i used to have diamonds and stars the diamonds formed

a figure 8 i covered them up with roses. i had to cover up the tattoo so that people would no longer identify me with a gang. you know represent that is some people change their tattoos. some even burn the young girls on my venus. so christiane's tattoos are a way to overwrite one part of a brutal past. and that's not the only thing he does to challenge the gangs so. every sunday he joins his father and the rest of the family in the kitchen. to make lunch for children in the neighborhood. on the menu today. fried chicken with potatoes and sour.

christiania his father want to offer the children an alternative a few hours respite from the violence on the streets. they're still waiting for 2 of the children to arrive. it's a moment of humanity the teachers the children something important they don't have to be a gang member to have friends. or the funny get them was that. one of the children here is hot he told you i know his father from the old days. where you are he died when hockey always very young. one day hot utah came up to me and said. i want to be a killer like my dad. always a look at that's exactly what we want to avoid the label neo where they could children follow the bad example of their father's love you look at the you know males we want to foster the good in them. this in but i do.

efforts by citizens in the state to secure peace. seem to be bearing fruit. the murder rate in guatemala has been steadily falling over the last few years. $2900.00 it dropped by almost 10 percent. at the very least it's a glimmer of hope. to own. or not to well. what about assuring economy instead. of a change in thinking is changing the economy to create something new.

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