Guatemalan village takes gang security into own hands Residents from a small Guatemalan village have taken street security into their own hands by carrying out armed patrols at night to alert on criminal activity from the infamous “Salvatrucha” and “Barrio 18” gangs. An estimated 6.000 people die yearly in the country and Guatemala, along with its Central American neighbors, El Salvador and Honduras, suffers from desperately high levels of violence. IMAGES