A French filmmaker, Christian Poveda who recently made a documentary about the lives of members of El Salvador’s street gangs was shot dead Wednesday in the Central American country, authorities said.
The body of Christian Poveda, 52, was found inside a car in a Tonacatepeque, a rural region north of the capital, police said. He had been shot in the head.
Possibly by the gangs that his recently released documentary “La Vida Loca (the Crazy Life)” focused on.
Poveda first came to El Salvador as a photographer for Time magazine. He also covered wars in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and other countries. In the 1990s, he dedicated himself to documentary work and concentrated on Salvadoran gangs.
El Salvador, which has one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America, has more than 16,000 gang members. Many were deported from the United States after serving jail terms there.
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