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Giovanni Morales (32) and his wife Isamar Orellana (20) and their new born Grace (3 months)..Giovanni is a gang member of the Mara Salvatrucha. He has been in prison four times and started to realize that this was not the life he wanted. He is now fighting to be accepted by society and live a normal life. In fact, he is A bakery for gang members in Buenos Aires, a rough neighborhood of San Salvador. The bakery is an initiative to teach gang members a new profession and to let them to earn their own money. Although the code says that you can never leave the gang, it does allow members to become 'inactive'...El Salvador is often mentioned as the most Americanized country in the Americas. In fact, one third of its population lives in the USA. El Salvador has also the highest number of murders per capita in the world. Violence stems from the brutal civil war and the gangs, whiche were started in the US. In fact, when peace accords were signed in 1992 the US deported many Salvadorians back to El Salvador: this was the start of the gangs 'Mara Salvatrucha' and '18'. Salvador's economy is heavily dependant on remesas: money that Salvadorians in the US send to their families in El Salvador. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR)