Posted on 01/12/2018 1:49:46 PM PST by 11th_VA
In recent years, El Salvador’s street gangs have begun to exert influence in the country’s security sector and local governments. But the country has a long history of state-sponsored violence.
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In fact, El Salvador has a long history of state-sponsored violence. The earliest police forces, created at the beginning of the twentieth century, received military training and stood under the command of the Ministry of Defense. Notoriously abusive and corrupt, these corps brutally repressed dissent and revolts. Starving campesinos who protested abysmal labour conditions, were depicted as communists bent on overthrowing the established order and annihilated. During the civil war (1980-1992), the Armed Forces (FAES) conducted a counterinsurgency campaign in the countryside, targeting guerrilla combatants and civilians thought to sympathize with them. In urban areas, death squads operated by police and soldiers and financed by wealthy families that wanted to see the uprising crushed, eliminated students, teachers, trade unionists, and priests suspected of “terrorism.”
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Wonder how long before the Anti-American crappers masquerading as private corporations inside the American perimeter start overflowing?
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3621462/posts
Yep. No Salvador in El Salvador.
I once thought that no nation on earth could outdo Spain in the number of thieves per capita. And then I visited El Salvador.
More like El Destructador
All I read was endless cycle or carnage in butthole. Then I fell off my chair laughing.
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