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Gangs and police engage in the battle for El Salvador

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May 25th, 2015 -

In May alone, more than 411 people, an average of 21 a day, were murdered in El Salvador. The country’s forensics institute, the Institute of Legal Medicine, reported the total this week, marking the second time in 2015 the murder rate has surpssed 400 in a 30-day span. Just two months ago, the murder rate surged…


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  • wjr5108

    It is a shame that all that one reads about El Salvador is the violence. I have had the good fortune to visit El Salvador in 2006, and have since travelled there for at least one month or more on 5 seperate occasions since 2011; I will be returning to visit again in a couple of months.
    I travel by ordinary bus, by private car with salvadorans, on foot, by taxi and by rental car.
    I have many good friends in the middle-working classes who are uniformly hard-working, honest, generous, helpful and kind (I am a very good Spanish speaker).
    We drive without incident from Ahuachapán to Guatemala–the last trip in January, I took the ADO buses from Mérida to San Christóbol, to Huehuetenango, and on to La Ciudad where I was met by my friends who drove me to my hotel in Ataco.
    El Salvador is a beautiful coubtry with friendly and hard-working people–I’m aware of the gang violence and simply stay clear of their well delineated areas. I’ve never even had a cross look. I took the time to write this comment as I believe that there is more to this story and that Salvadorans deserve better. William Reckling.

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