Like the guns Ronald Reagan’s administration sent down for use against leftist guerrillas, MS-13 is an American export
Hanover Square Press; 352 pages; $28.99. To be published in Britain by Bonnier Books in July 2021; £8.99.By Óscar Martínez and Juan José Martínez. Translated by John Washington and Daniela Maria Ugaz.of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has been “very tough” on the street gang-13—or so said Donald Trump last year. Murders have indeed fallen 80% since 2015, when El Salvador was the most violent country in the world .
As with rebels of earlier decades, El Salvador’s response hardened the hoodlums. Consecutive presidents packed the prisons, but with virtually no rehabilitation they became gang training grounds. Then, in 2012, an ex-guerrilla forged a short-lived truce between gangs and the government that halved the murder rate but horrified elites and the American embassy . Still, it set a precedent. Deals continued in secret: support from-13 probably swayed the tight presidential election of 2014.
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