In 1995, El Salvador had an intentional homicide rate of 139 per 100,000, the highest in the world and one of the highest rates recorded in modern history. Like all educated middle-class Americans, my core understanding of urban crime comes from The Wire, so for comparison, when the show took place, the homicide rate in…
On March 15, citizens of El Salvador elected for the first time in the nation's history a president hailing from the political Left. Whether the FMLN charts a course of its own or becomes an echo chamber for the rhetoric of the left is of great importance to the United States.