El Salvador’s Other Crisis
A couple of nights ago, I tweeted an article—which inspired a blog post—about the dramatic rise in murders reported by the Salvadoran government in the last year. The alarming spike in killings is, at least in part, connected with the end of a peace truce established in 2012 between the country’s most powerful gangs. Since the pact fell apart in March, violence exploded and increasingly seems beyond the control of the government to do anything about it.
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