El Salvador has had a bloody history but in one day recently they had 43 murders. More than 3.800 people have died this year alone. Now, with the gang warfare at the heart of it all escalating, one former guerilla says his country is bleeding. And part of the source of the violence may surprise you – when the civil war ended in 1992, the USA deported thousands of migrants. And many took the violent skills they learned on the streets of LA back with them.

El Salvador

Some new crime novel reviewed in the Guardian. None of them mine. Sigh.

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