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Since 2006, the conflict between Mexican drug cartels claimed more lives than the rest of the conflicts worldwide. Over 200,000 homicides with the highest peak in 2019 when 29,168 killings were reported. The cartels are used to dismember the rivals’ bodies and bury them in large graves in remote areas. A real estimate of the victims of this “turf war” cannot be really done accurately, considering also that Los Desaparecidos” (missing persons) currently more than 75,000 in Mexico, are either never found or in some gruesome cases, the remains cannot be identified. High profile case: The most high-profile case is that of the 43 young male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College, a small college in southern Mexico with a tradition of left-wing activism. On their way to a protest in Mexico City, the group disappeared from Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014, after a confrontation with government security forces, who were acting in concert with local politicians and organized cri...

  At the beginning of the 16th century, Central American territories were conquered by the Spanish. In 1821 El Salvador obtained independence, but it was immediately incorporated into the First   Mexican Empire   and ruled until 1841 when it finally became a sovereign nation. From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, El Salvador suffered political and economic instability and the succession of authoritarian rulers through revolts and coups. The Salvadoran Civil War from 1979 to 1992, fought between the military and left-wing guerrilla groups devastated the country’s economy, thus increasing social inequality.  secure transportation Colombia   The outcome was the establishment of a multiparty constitutional republic, which remains in place to this day. El Salvador’s economy has historically been dominated by agriculture since the 16th century and the Spanish colonization. In the early 20th century, its dependence on the exportation of coffee began diversifying its ec...