Andres torso glows with the Dieciocho gang-tattoos. He has a thirty-centimeter long scar on his stomach, deep enough to give you the impression there is still a bullet lodged there. He has been shot ten times in fights with Salvatrucha.
- God wanted me to survive so that I can tell the young about the evil I have done in my life. My mission is to help them choose the right path, he says.