Violence : El Salvador 's Violence

Imagine living in a country where you know you could die at any moment but don’t know how much longer till it happens. That was how much of the population of El Salvador used to feel when the government could not control the big coffee corporations. These out of control corporations, highly feared that the people would want to revolt against them so they hired murderers to kill innocent people to spread fear in the minds of the people of El Salvador. Fear, hate, and sorrow were the common feelings felt by the poor and innocent major population of El Salvador caused by the evil wrongdoings of the government during October 1979 – 16 January 1992. This is how the main character, Jose Luis, of the novel “Mother Tongue” by Demetria Martinez, felt before escaping his beautiful yet over constantly dangerous country, which depended on its cash crop, coffee beans to sell on a foreign market as the country’s main income. However, following the stock-market crash of 1929, a drop in coffee prices became apparent and affected everyone in El Salvador, but the poor especially. Making things worse, the glorious United States was funding the men whom were doing all the innocent killings with more weapons and money to increase their military power. So for Jose Luis the safe haven that he had escaped to was also blatantly funding the war that was killing so many innocent people he knew and had forced him to escape for his own safety. With nowhere else to go in order to find safety the United

For twelve years (1980-1992), El Salvador suffered this brutal civil war and saw some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin American history. The government refused to attend peace talks by the FMLN and the FMLN refused to participate in elections knowing it results would be rigged. The military tried to kill all suspected rebels and the FMLN damaged anything that supported the government’s economy. Throughout the war there was so much human rights violations such as subjecting civilians to torture, forced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, mutilation, mass rape, massacres, summary executions, landmines and indiscriminate bombing. As the result, by the end of the civil war about 75,000 people were killed, sadly most of which were civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time. The intensity of military repression and constant fear provoked massive northern migration to the United States. By the mid-1980s almost one-fifth of the Salvadoran population was living in the United

At seven o’ clock in the morning on December 11, 1981 an evil force entered the small El Salvadorian village of El Mezote (School of Assasins). With painted faces and army fatigues, the guerillas carried machine guns and automatic rifles into the peaceful village. As survivor Rufina Amaya recounts, “At ten o’clock the soldiers began to kill the men who were in the church. First, they machine-gunned them and slit their throats” (“Country Sheets for Close it Down Fast!” 3). After the men, the women were placed face down in the dusty streets and shot to

Twentieth century El Salvador is made up of violence, suffering, and hardships. After the independence of El Salvador, the elite took control of this country which produced discontent amongst the lower classes. During the 1920’s this discontent grew because of political abuse and increased poverty. According to John Chasteen in Born In Blood and Fire, Salvadoran indigenous people were pushed into volcanic land by the

During the 1980s and 1990s as a result of fearing for their security throughout El Salvador’s civil war, Salvadorans began to immigrate to the United States to find safety away from their native country. Often times, it is in the aftermath of a civil war and not during the actual war itself, that civilians face new threats from delinquents, vigilantes or former combatants (Call and Stanley 2001). Furthermore, refuges did not immediate receive the support needed because the Salvadoran Civil War was backed up by the U.S. It was not until the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act was passed in 1997 that many Salvadorans were offered a legal path to residency, as long as they were registered asylum seekers. Ultimately, by 2008,

How can someone that does not feel safe walking on the streets, who can not ask for help from the police or the government because they are working with the gangs too, whose life is full of afflictions and sadness call El Salvador their country anymore? A country that is being controlled by people who do not care about your safety.In fact, the only choice that you have to continue living in your beloved birth country is to do everything the gangster

Living a life in Honduras is dreadful because research has shown that in 2016, 66 percent of the population of Honduras lived in poverty according to official data. Honduras also has one of the highest murder rates in the world, and the homicide rate in 2016 was 59 per 100,000. Which means that every 100,000 people living in Honduras 59 Hondurans will die every year. The numbers of the homicide rate in Honduras is ten times higher than global averages, and it is also 12 times higher than United States averages. One of the factors that breed crime is poverty because in Honduras there are limited jobs, as well as, inadequate wages, as a consequence, those workers don’t have enough money to buy food for the entire family. Therefore those people join crime organizations to be able to feed their family by taking from others. After researching various articles, I found out that the one who is responsible for all the chaos that is happening in Honduras is the government of Honduras. The government of Honduras is a problem for the country because within the government there is political corruption. Since the corrupt politicians are abusing their power for evil it’s having a negative impact for the people who are living in Honduras.

The government created the National Council of AIDS (CONASIDA) to help plan fight against HIV/AIDS. Nonprofit and international organizations, donors, or other third parties unify to help decentralize services and treatment for the people, especially children, affected by the disease. In the recent year, ZIKA virus arose in the country. That’s why children younger were advised to wear insect repellents to prevent the virus, Another major issue children face in El Salvador is sexual violence and murder. Gangs in the late teens emerge and criminal activity just increases every time. (Considering that El Salvador is also known to be the most violent in Latin America due to its high rates in criminal activity.) Even though most children in El Salvador have access to public health services, most of them are forbidden from a public education. This is due to lack of civil records at birth. Most of them are not registered, which means that they can’t obtain citizenship. On the other hand, government makes a move toward making education a priority in the

Despite, the peace accord set in 1992 to end the civil war, El Salvador's authoritarianism continued to be unchallenged. The former guerilla group, FMLN, transitioned into a left-wing political party and the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA), a right-wing political party founded by Roberto D’Aubuisson and Mercedes Gloria Salguero Gross, came to define the tensions of postwar El Salvador. The intentions of the peace accord in terms of the FMLN, were to achieve a just and equitable society for all its peoples however, proving the opposite by not addressing future policies, it left the economic and political structures of power that created conditions for the civil war to arise in the first place. According to Ching (2016), by 1992 ARENA was able to privatize and deregulate much of the state’s assets, “including electric power distribution, banks, and telecommunications” (51).

Have you been to one of the deadliest countries in the world? This country is El Salvador. In this essay you will learn about El Salvador. El Salvador is a small country in Central America. Now read on to learn about El Salvador.

You are an adult in El Salvador in 2015. Your entire country and its neighbors are in a massive state of chaos. You constantly worry about your two young children- both so skinny you can see their ribs, dark circles encompassing their eyes from sleep deprivation. Crumbling buildings and litter are ubiquitous in the neighborhood and avoiding the piles of trash on your way home from work is very arduous.

Today, unfortunately, was another scary day for my little town of El Congo, a little town thirty-five miles west of the capital, San Salvador in case you didn’t know. There were many gangs in the streets threatening people, even random civilians. There is a lot of gang violence throughout El Salvador especially near the capital. There is a record high death rate right now! The homicide rate in the country of El Salvador is one hundred and three people per every one hundred thousand people in a population of 6.4 million making my country the most violent country in the world. All of this violence started because a truce fell flat between two gangs.

The gangs in El Salvador are an unfortunate effect of an unfair and ill society by the poverty and corrupt goverments. Like a society we haven´t been able to select the right politicians and we don´t have the courage to watch around us the many necesities of our cityzens, in order to build the right institutions. But if somebody ask me where we could have a new begining I could say that to avoid corrupt politicians and a reach a better richness distribution would be an interestig options.

Today, our beautiful little country is the murder capital of the world. Salvadorans can't seem wake up from

El Salvador is a small, yet highly dense populated country in Central America. About 1.5 million people from El Salvador live and work in the United States currently. In the year 1979, a civil war began in El Salvador that went on for fourteen years, before ending in 1992. During this civil war, an estimated 25% of the population of El Salvador fled to the United States seeking safety and better job opportunities. What you are about to read is the story (This is the story) of one of those Salvadorians, my very close friend Fermin.