year prison sentences for gang members, and El Salvador, also struggling to fight gang activity, followed suit. Honduran gangs claim more than 100,000 members and control poor neighborhoods in the country's major cities, where they are known for extorting «protection» money from residents as well as committing crimes. The note left after Thursday's attack promised more violence, saying «people should take advantage of this holy day, because the next one will be worse.» In Tegucigalpa, hundreds of soldiers were dispatched on Saturday, along with light tanks.
