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 Forensic anthropologists working on the exhumation of the victims of a massacre in El Salvador, in 1931. The Central American country is experiencing a surge of deadly violence and crime. Mario Díaz. EFE/Rodrigo Sura
 Forensic anthropologists working on the exhumation of the victims of a massacre in El Salvador, in 1931. The Central American country is experiencing a surge of deadly violence and crime. Mario Díaz. EFE/Rodrigo Sura

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El Salvador is experiencing one of the highest levels of deadly violence in America, mainly in the hands of Ms-13 and its rival gangs. How do these gangs get financing? They extort about 70 percent of businesses. They dislodge entire communities from their homes, and help propel thousands of Salvadorans to undertake dangerous journeys to the United States.

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El Salvador is experiencing one of the highest levels of deadly violence in America, mainly in the hands of Ms-13 and its rival gangs. How do these gangs get financing? They extort about 70 percent of businesses. They dislodge entire communities from their homes, and help propel thousands of Salvadorans to undertake dangerous journeys to the United States. Read the whole exclusive story in The New York Times, in collaboration with El Faro, a digital newspaper based in San Salvador.  

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