“El Salvador’s street gangs paralyzed the capital city of San Salvador on Wednesday as many bus drivers stayed clear of their routes after the killing of at least nine transportation workers in a challenge to the government’s crackdown on violence.
Police and local media said Wednesday that the chaos was spreading.
‘There is a death sentence for our people here who go out to work, for those who don’t want to pay extortion. Here [the authorities] have to be stronger,’ Genaro Ramirez, president of the union representing bus companies, said during a news conference in the Salvadoran capital.”
Source: Gang killings of bus workers freezes San Salvador’s transportation system – LA Times