World in Progress: Crime Free Villages in El Salvador
Ruxandra Guidi, Chalatenango, El Salvador July 9, 2015
El Salvador in Central America has one of the highest murder rates in the world, with up to 20 homicides a day. Violence seems deeply engrained in society, since the civil war thirty years ago. But amid all the violence, there is a cluster of municipalities in northwestern El Salvador that, year after year, report almost no homicides. (Round Earth Media funded this report with a grant.)