Eagle, Houston, you're a go for landing over? We were getting very, very short to minimum fuel.

Then it was 60 seconds.

Over.

Which many had 60 seconds to land.

It was dead silence in mission control.

Thirteen minutes to the moon, from the BBC World Service, coming soon.

This is the inquiry on the BBC World Service with me Ruth Alexander each week one question,

four expert witnesses and an answer.

It's July 2007, almost 12 years ago, and there's a ceremony taking place in the council chamber in Quito, the capital of Ecuador.

The mayor and other officials and police officers stand on ceremony in front of 40 men

who are sporting baggy jeans, yellow t-shirts, tattoos, 40 gang members.

As television cameras take in the scene, several of them hide their faces behind their baseball caps,

and then on command the young men rise to their feet and shout allegiance to the Latin kings, their gang.

The officials smile broadly.

These 40 gang members are being formally recognized as a cultural group, long demonized as a cultural group.

Long demonized as a criminal enterprise,

the authorities now want to work with them,

to pull them away from the streets,

from drugs and violence, and into society and employment, even politics.

A few hours later, a car drives past a group of the gang members who attended the ceremony.

Shots are fired out of the window.

No one's hurt, but it was close.

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