In 2015, homicides in El Salvador rivalled the most violent peak of the civil war, and it ranks consistently among the world’s most violent nations. But one of the gang members rushed the job and struck her in the back of the head with a machete. Many have come to believe that the US got rid of its problem at El Salvador’s expense. It is not difficult to understand why the authorities are eager to depict El Salvador’s violence as the original sin. It was always determined by the legacy of El Salvador’s civil war and the underlying inequality that had precipitated it, but was never resolved by its outcome.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2020 06:00 UTC