OK things here are better, I've been out twice today, have not seen anything unusual, although there were few cars out there at night - at day it was normal. What I feel is that people are just... colder. Distant. Not smiling at all. Like when you get some terrible bad news and nothing seems too much fun.
The violence has stopped because the government has done a deal with the gang leaders. Given into their demands of re-alocating prisoners, allowing them to choose what to wear, where to be, and bringing them new TVs and stuff. That is, the "terrorists" have won. The government has admitted that there is no way to control this. It's like Robocop, with the OCP on strike and the gangs all over. We are, literally speaking, under an absolute state of anarchy. The only thing impeding you to get killed is luck.
And what saddens me is how many ignorant people we have here. I live at a poor area of this region, and today I've heard kids playing on the street, no older than 8 or 9, saying how cool the gangs were, pretending to be part of the gang killing cops - they all want to be criminals when they grow up.
The ammount of people with no access to proper education is enormous. With no proper care, living on misery, simply not caring. For those, crime is a solution to improve their stupid lives. Glamorous. Easy. Non-punishable. Over here, the maximum ammount of time one can spend on jail is 30 years, and I have heard of only ONE person who has been arrested for this long. After ONE THIRD of the time you can appeal and will most likely get out. If you kill someone, odds are you will EASILY escape prison, die there in a couple of weeks if you don't join their gang, or leave in six to ten years. Minors are sent to special child detentions, where they are kept until they are 18 AND RELEASED. If you kill 100 people on a killing spree at 17, you'll be a free man one year later (although the trial usually takes 4 to 5 years, and they keep you locked on the meanwhile, but you get the idea). At prison, even someone who has only stolen something and has no wish to become a major criminal will LEARN the hard way how to become one. Will join the gang and become a mindless pawn of violence. That's why the criminals here call jails "colleges".
So there's no real solution. The government is absolutely corrupt and incompetent. The people is completely ignorant and poor. The police has almost no real power. Not a single part of society wants to do anything about it. Our only hope is that they kill us all in a painless way, as they'll turn this country into a massive gory ultra-violent ignorant and primitive post-apocaliptical nightmare.
If something new happen here, I'll let you know. On the meanwhile, I'll abandon this thread.