With the approach of presidential elections in February 2014, the government dropped its support for the truce. That helped Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the candidate of the ruling FMLN, to win the election. Attempts by gang leaders and the Catholic church to resurrect the truce failed. The government put gang bosses back into high-security prisons in February this year. “Suddenly all bets were off,” says Paolo Lüers, a businessman who helped negotiate the agreement. “The gang leaders who were still trying to calm the violence were suddenly taken out of play.”
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