El Salvador: suspects arrested in Poveda murder probe

September 11th, 2009

On 10 September four men suspected of killing Franco-Spanish journalist Christian Poveda in El Salvador were arrested. One of suspects is a police officer. The other three are members of Mara 18, a street gang that Poveda filmed for this 2008 documentary La Vida Loca. According to police, the journalist’s murder was ordered by a jailed member of the gang who believed him to be a police informant. Read more here (http://www NULL.google NULL.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ic9NStIOD6dlRpI01x6XfAjUu91Q)

Death in El Salvador

September 4th, 2009

The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding, writes Deborah Bonello
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