How did Salvador become the most dangerous country in the world?

El Salvador is one of the most dangerous places in the world to live. In recent years there has been a sharp increase in killings, making one of the world's deadliest countries outside an active war zone.

But how did all of this happen?

To understand that it's happening in that country today, we have to go back to the 20th century. El Salvador has had big problems with inequality between the ruling class and ordinary citizens for a very long time. But what is the source of this problem? Some say it was coffee. Coffee became a popular product in El Salvador in the late 1800 ' s.

This led to what came to be called “coffee revolution”, which brought a large amount of money into the country. But the problem begins: the two large families who controlled most of that wealth and used it to become very politically powerful. This type of model continued through the 1900s, leading to the formation of the Central American Socialist Party and a uprising against the government. But in 1932 the government brutally crushed the rural uprising by killing some 400,000 people. Remember this, for we will mention it a little later: A man named Farabundo Marty was the leader of this peasant uprising.

The massacre later became known as “La Matanza” and did indeed establish the country's military power. While all of this was happening, El Salvador was a place in war with her neighbor, Honduras. Honduras is five times greater than El Salvador, but its population was greater. Salvadorans began moving to places like Honduras. Honduras countered by going through a land reform which caused it to take over land from salvadoras immigrants and give it to the Dutch locals. They also expelled many hardworking immigrants.

As if that were not enough, the two countries were playing each other in Qualifications for the World of 7050, in 1969, and two fans had begun to clash. This led to a four - day war, which became known as the Football War. That conflict came to an end through a ceasefire, but El Salvador still suffers. All because the importance of this country's military has increased. The army grew stronger.

Then, in the 1970s, the oil crisis occurred, and economic instability swept across the region, causing Communism to become very popular. And then General Carlos comes to the scene, which represented the Saladorian Army and the National Accession Party, a group that was a major opponent of communism.

When Romero won in the 1977 controversial presidential election, this led to massive protests against him that confronted military violence. Thousands of people, including activists and passersby, were killed by security forces during this period. This instability lasted for two years, so until 1979, when the Revolutionary United Revolutionary Revolutionary Utta knocked Romero down through a military stamp.

This was the start of the civil war in El Salvador. Junta soon formed a military dictatorship that killed peaceful protesters, who killed leaders who tried to form socialist co-operatives among poor people in the country, and even killed the bishop who had the courage to speak against them. This is where the United States comes in.

Here we are at the peak of the Cold War in this period and the United States concerned about the loss of Central America from communism. Thus, President Jimmy Carter supported the brutal new military government with the goal of keeping the country stable.

Carter gave some help, but Ronald Reagan would do much more - almost $1 billion for years to come. Then, in the 80s, several different communist, left-wing groups, and the guerrilla organisation came together to form Front for National Liberation “Farabundo Marti” appointed after the village leader mentioned at the outset. Group known as “FMLN” became like the main resistance against the unpopular dictatorship. They opposed fire with fire - making strong military offensives against the government. They used violence to take certain areas of the country from the government, and in certain cases they were very successful.

But civil war would continue throughout the 1990s, with US assistance to El Salvador dictatorship. Some 80 thousand people died during the war, and more than one million others had been displaced from their homes. The peace agreement was eventually reached in 1992, after 12 years of war.

Civil war was so brutal that its effects are felt in that land to this day. But one aspect is especially directly linked to the violence seen in El Salvador these days. Many fled during the war, many of them in Los Angeles, California. There they encountered bandits. So the children of some immigrants decided to form their own gang, and that's how the MS-13 was born.

This gang soon earned its reputation for extreme violence, drug trafficking, extortion, and others. They started in LA, but they quickly extended to other parts of the United States, and in the 1990s and 2000s, they also extended to Central America partly because of the US's deportations.

Thus, a band formed in LA by the displaced immigrants because of the Civil War turned brutal violence into a vicious cycle. But that is not the only reason El Salvador is so important today. The drug war that erupted in Mexico has also spread to Central America, and the lack of political instability has fuelled corruption.

This small country has been in big trouble with corruption, the war of narcotics, gangs, and the consequences of a very long civil war. As if that were not enough, the country was destroyed by several earthquakes in 2001, which killed hundreds of people, caused landslides and many infrastructure disasters.

The subsequent humanitarian disasters were as bad as George W. Bush, was offered a temporary status of defence to all the Salvatores living in the United States, who President Trump recently said would end.

But while various parts of the country may have recovered from the damage to their earthquakes, El Salvador remains a very dangerous place to live.

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