Cristina Navas was 10 when her teenage brother, a gang member, was slain. Despite a life overshadowed ever since by poverty-fueled violence, Navas is doing all she can not to join the exodus of migrants from El Salvador.
Now 22, she lives with her mother and a sister in Soyapango in the country's northeast, a populous city under the constant shadow of gangs who terrorise residents.
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