El Salvador new president promises a new era of non-corruption and peace on the streets (the end of ms-13). first president since 1984 to not have been elected as the candidate of one of the country's two major political parties, the FMLN and ARENA
While El Salvador’s per capita homicide rate of 51 murders per 100,000 inhabitants is about ten times higher than the United States, it is comparable (Baltimore) and even lower (St. Louis)