
Street gangs in El Salvador killed a seventh bus driver Wednesday for defying their campaign to shut down public transport and force the government to recognize the feared urban posses.
The gangs called for the boycott on Monday, ordering bus drivers to stay off the roads. They killed five defiant drivers that day and another on Sunday.
Wednesday's victim was a driver who was buying fuel on the outskirts of the capital San Salvador. He was shot to death.
Many people used army trucks and other state-owned vehicles to get to work or school.
The powerful and ultra-violent gangs want the government to include them in the Security Council. This government body is working with civil society groups to stem the criminal violence that is rampant in this poor country of Central America.
President Salvador Sanchez Ceren on Tuesday ruled out dialogue with the gangs.
"Let me be very clear on this. We are not going to negotiate. We are going to pursue them and capture them so they face justice," the president said.
On Tuesday night police captured a suspected leader of a gang called Barrio 18.
Prosecutors said the subject, Cesar Vladimir Montano, had ordered killings and carried out conspiracy and acts of terror.
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