El Salvador: reporter killed the author of a documentary on local drug traffickers. The lifeless body of the journalist and documentary filmmaker Franco-English Christian Poveda was found with gunshot wounds inside his jeep in a rural district of San Salvador. According to preliminary information provided by the police, Poveda was killed with four blows to the head and chest fired by unknown assailants who would intercept the Tonacatepeque his vehicle in the area, north of the capital, according to witnesses the murders would have vanished without a trace. Poveda, 52, was filming a documentary on The Campanero, an area controlled by the 'maras' or 'gangs', the youth gangs spread throughout Central America. He had achieved some notoriety in 2008 with a previous documentary, 'La Vida Loca', which described the reality of the 'Mara 18', one of the most feared rival, together with the 'Mara Salvatrucha', presented as the result of family break-in Salvadoran society to seventeen years after the war Civil Aviation (1980-'92). Poveda says in the documentary that the "maras bring the terror," but at the same time argues that gangs are the only academic to understand the discomfort of living in the Central American country. "We understand why children of 12-13 years in a mara come and give their lives for it," he said, a few weeks before his death, the reporter in an interview with the online newspaper 'El Faro'. He arrived in El Salvador in 1980 as a correspondent for 'Time Magazine', Poveda had worked as a war photographer in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America since 1990 chose to devote himself to documentaries. (Source: "Information Safety and Freedom").
