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Just arrived Salvadorians deported from the US at the airport of San Salvador. El Salvador like other Central American countries receive 1-2 flights a day with deportees from the US...El Salvador is often mentioned as the most Americanized country in the Americas. One third of its population lives in the USA. El Salvador also has most murders per capita in the world. Violence stems from the brutal civil war and the gangs, gangs who originated in the US. When the peace accords were signed in 1992 the US deported many Salvadorians back to El Salvador: the start of the gangs 'Mara Salvatrucha' and '18'. Salvador's economy is heavily depending on remesas; money that Salvadorians in the US send to their families in El Salvador. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR)