El Salvador Before Bukele: 2015 Peak of 103 Killings per 100,000, MS-13 and Barrio 18 Rule, and a 16% GDP Drain, Per International Crisis Group and IDB
El Salvador Before Bukele, how gang rule, fear, and failed policies left citizens willing to trade rights for safety In the years before Nayib Bukele rose to power, El Salvador lived under a bleak, persistent reality, where formal institutions existed on paper, but much of daily life was governed by fear and the day-to-day rules […]
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