Moises Saman A local fisherman stands on the shore in the Bay of Jiquilisco opposite the Chaparrastique volcanoe in the Usulutan district of El Salvador. Corral de Mulas, Usulutan. El Salvador. 27 September, 2018. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
The mother of a suspected "Calle 18" gang member Rigoberto Carrillo, stands next to her son before he is taken away by Salvadoran police during a raid in the Panchimalco district on the outskirts o (...)
Moises Saman A policeman covers his face during the funeral of Jose Antonio Alfaro Rodriguez, a 31-year-old policeman that was murdered by gang members while off-duty in front of his home in the Ciudad Arce dis (...)
Moises Saman A thief lays dead inside a bus after a passenger shot him dead in self-defense during a botched robbery in downtown San Salvador. San Salvador. El Salvador. 30 September, 2018. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. September 15, 2016. Santiago, a senior member and spokesman of the Sureños faction of the 18th Street gang poses for a portrait at an undisclosed location in El Salvador. Since 2007, S (...)
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. September, 2016. Anti-gang police operation in San Salvador. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman San Salvador. El Salvador. 21 September, 2018. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Students and parents during rehearsals for El Salvador's Independence Day celebrations at the Centro Escolar Valle del Sol. Colonia Valle del Sol, Apopa. El Salvador. September 9, 2016. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. Chalatenango. 2007. An area controlled by the MS 13 gang in San Salvador. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman After a brief chase, a policeman arrests a suspected gang member involved in the carjacking of a truck. The police then brought the victims of the carjacking to the scene of the arrest, where the v (...)
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. September, 2018. A street in downtown San Salvador, a high crime area in the city. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A female gang member is found raped and murdered on a road in the town of Ilopango, on the outskirts of San Salvador. Ilopango. El Salvador. May 2007. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Students and parents during rehearsals for El Salvador's Independence Day celebrations at the Centro Escolar Valle del Sol. Colonia Valle del Sol, Apopa. El Salvador. September 9, 2016. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 29 September, 2018. A couple stand near a crime scene in downtown San Salvador where two men were shot inside a bus. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 29 September, 2018. Onlookers gather at the scene of a shooting in downtown. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Incarcerated members of the MS13 gang in their sleeping quarters inside the Chalatenango prison in El Salvador, one of the prisons in El Salvador where the "Yo Cambio" (I Change) program of gang re (...)
Moises Saman A dog walks next to a day laborer awaiting for work on a street in Intipuca, a town known for the number of immigrants that now live in the United States. In Intipuca central square, Emigrants Park (...)
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. Apopa. 18 September, 2018. Vladimir Echevarria Amaya, 23, sits in his one-room family home he shares with his family in the Distrito Italia district of Apopa, an area known to be under (...)
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 4 October, 2018. A street corner in downtown San Salvador, an area of the city that is known for crime and gang activity. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. San Salvador. 21 September, 2018. A security guard working for a gas delivery company, lies on the pavement severely injured after falling from the back of a truck he was guarding duri (...)
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. Intipuca, La Union. 25 September, 2018. Street scene in the town of Intipuca, a town known for the number of immigrants that now live in the United States. In Intipuca central square, (...)
Moises Saman MEXICO. Ciudad Hidalgo. 2 November, 2018.
Mexican Federal Police officers stand behind the closed gate at the Ciudad Hidalgo border crossing between Mexico and Guatemala. Mexican immigration offic (...)
Moises Saman Dozens of Salvadorian migrants, part of a caravan of hundreds of migrants from El Salvador making their way toward the United States, ride inside a container trailer on their way to the Salvador-Gu (...)
Moises Saman MEXICO. Tapachula. 4 October, 2018.
The caravan of Salvadoran migrants make their wat toward the Mesican city of Tapachula, in Chipapas State. On October 3, a so-called "Migrant Caravan" of about (...)
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR.Ciudad Barrios. May 2007."Snoopy" is a senior member of the MS13 gang, now serving a life sentence for murder at the Ciudad Barrios prison in El Salvador. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A caravan of Salvadoran migrants cross the Suchiate river border from Guatemala into Mexico after Mexican immigration authorities declined their request to legally transit through Mexican territory (...)
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. Ciudad Barrios. 2007. Member of the MS13 (Mara Salvatrucha) gang inside the Ciudad Barrios jail in El Salvador. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Salvadoran migrants rush to jump a fence to exit a restricted official border crossing area between Guatemala and Mexico at Tecun Uman. The migrants refused to stay in the area after Mexican immigr (...)
Moises Saman About 600 Salvadorian families displaced from their homes in violent neighborhoods on the outskirts of San Salvador now live in a makeshift camp near the town of Soyapango, south of the Salvadorian (...)
Moises Saman Merchants working in the Tiendona market in central San Salvador. This market is controlled by gangs that extort its merchants for money. San Salvador. El Salvador. 4 October, 2018. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman EL SALVADOR. Panchimalco. December 13, 2007. The mother of a suspected "Calle 18" gang member Rigoberto Carrillo, stands next to her son before he is taken away by Salvadoran police during a raid i (...)
Moises Saman An incarcerated MS13 gang member smokes a cigarette inside the Chalatenango prison. Chalatenango. El Salvador. May, 2007. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
