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El Salvador Gangs violent and murders

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El Salvador Gang Truce Crumbling, 103 Murders In Last Week Alone Reuters    |   Posted: 07/05/2013 10:33 pm EDT FOLLOW: Voces de ContraPunto ,   El Salvador Crime ,   El Salvador Deaths ,   El Salvador Gang Truce ,   El Salvador Gang Violence ,   El Salvador Gangs ,   El Salvador Homicides ,   El Salvador Murders ,   El Salvador Violence ,   Reuters ,   World News SAN SALVADOR, July 5 (Reuters) - El Salvador has seen a burst of violence, with 103 homicides this week, the government said on Friday, as a year-long truce between the country's violent gangs appeared to be crumbling. The uptick in murders in the Central American nation echoes killing rates before the March 2012 truce between the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang and rival Barrio 18. "We said last year that the truce was fragile and that it could fracture in any moment. Time has proven us right," Miguel Fortin, Director of the Supreme Court's Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) told loc