El Salvador’s new attorney general is the point man in the war against gangs

SAN SALVADOR — The elevator operator, the man who escorts visitors to the sixth-floor office of El Salvador’s top justice official, happens to be blind. Whether that is coincidence, or an intentional flourish on the part of the Central American country’s new attorney general, Douglas Meléndez Ruiz, the symbolism fits with the mood of cautious […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/30/el-salvadors-new-attorney-general-is-the-point-man-in-the-war-against-gangs/