Whack-a-mole drug war: El Salvador Fears Ties Between Cartels, Street Gangs

Part 3 of NPR's series on the drug war in Central America

El Salvador Fears Ties Between Cartels, Street Gangs : NPR: "As the Mexican government has attacked the cartels, several of them have been moving into Central America, where security forces are ill-equipped to confront them. The migration of the cartels into Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador has given the region the highest homicide rate in the hemisphere.

In El Salvador, there's fear that the Mexican cartels are aligning themselves with the country's ubiquitous street gangs."