On 17 April El Salvador’s justice & public security minister, Ricardo Perdomo, proposed a new broader-scope and more ‘transparent’ agreement with “the gang leaders who still believe in the pacification process”. Perdomo urged them to “stop killing and extorting the population” and join “representatives of civil society” to work out the new pact. This came after he had accused unnamed gang leaders of having ordered from prison attacks on “police, military and the civil population” which had resulted in the sharp increase in violent deaths in recent weeks. Perdomo, however, has not ordered the return of the gang leaders to…