Åsa Welander

Åsa Welander is a Swedish freelance journalist based in Mexico City, covering Latin America.

Åsa Welander is a Swedish freelance journalist based in Mexico City, covering Latin America.

Volunteers with the Rescue Command treat a man who was robbed and attacked with a baseball in San Salvador.

El Salvador's skyrocketing violence is being met by youth who risk their lives to treat victims

Gang violence is skyrocketing in El Salvador. May finished with more than 600 murders, more than any previous month since the country's civil war that ended in the early 1990s. Young people are often the victims, but some have found an escape; a way to live in the middle of the violence without becoming a target.

El Salvador's skyrocketing violence is being met by youth who risk their lives to treat victims