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Victoria Outreach is religious outreach center in San Salvador. Many of the clients have been deported from the US and got into alcohol and drug problems upon return to El Salvador. If treatment is being accepted, they will enter a three month detox period where you are not allowed to leave. Inner healing (the teachings of christianity) play a major role. ..El Salvador is often mentioned as the most Americanized country in the Americas. In fact, one third of its population lives in the USA. El Salvador has also the highest number of murders per capita in the world. Violence stems from the brutal civil war and the gangs, whiche were started in the US. In fact, when peace accords were signed in 1992 the US deported many Salvadorians back to El Salvador: this was the start of the gangs 'Mara Salvatrucha' and '18'. Salvador's economy is heavily dependant on remesas: money that Salvadorians in the US send to their families in El Salvador. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR)