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Carmen Elena (26), Irving Ernesto Rosales (23), Nancy Jasmin Rosales (15) and their father Ernesto Rosales Guillen (47) at home in Iberia, San Salvador..Irving started the Iberia Breakdance Club. He lives in Iberia a dangerous area dominated by gangs in San Salvador. Irving hopes with his initiative to get kids of the street and not join the gangs. His sister Nancy Jasmin Rosales (15) is also part of the breakdance group..They live together with their father Ernesto Rosales Guillen (47). There mother left in 2005 for Los Angeles to find work, because the family wasn't managing financially. ..El Salvador is often mentioned as the most Americanized country in the Americas. Onethird of its population lives in the USA. El Salvador also has most murders per capita in the world. Violence stems from the brutal civil war and the gangs, gangs who originated in the US. When the peace accords were signed in 1992 the US deported many Salvadorians back to El Salvador: the start of the gangs 'Mara Salvatrucha' and '18'. Salvador's economy is heavily depending on remesas; money that Salvadorians in the US send to their families in El Salvador. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR)