itarian Crackdown

Sep 9, 2024 | theunpopulist.net | Joel Looper |itarian Crackdown

El Salvador became the bloodiest country in the Western world in 2015. Its murder rate eclipsed 100 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, a figure more characteristic of a failed state than a modern democracy. Not since the mid-1990s had the country been this violent, and the principal reason for the spike was the gangs, namely, MS-13, originally founded in the U.S. in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants, and Barrio 18, or 18th Street, its equally barbaric rival.