I would like to give a brief explanation as to the walls visible in a lot of my pictures. These walls were built by the FMLN along with a nice road, so that the extremely rich would live there. The FMLN in case you don't know who they are, are a political party in El Salvadore who are against United States involvement in any manner in their country. For the most part like any political organization they are trying to persuade(brainwash) the people of El Salvadore into voting for them because they will help the country by getting rid of Americans there. This in fact would not help at all. The United States citizens that are in El Salvadore either own a house there or are aid workers just trying to help the country. Getting rid of them would do no good.
Back to these walls. The walls are built to seperate this rich compound from the immense poverty. I along with my dad was able to get a tour of this compound. It was astonishing seeing the wealth and luxury of these people. Olympic size swimming pools, satelite dishes, expensive cars, well kept shining green grass, guards, and guest houses were all over this compound.
As we leave the compound and continue down the road, we see people building their houses up against this wall. Here is a picture my dad took of one new house built against the wall.
Both the kids were very proud to have their new house. There were twenty or thirty more similar to this some worse some better all around the length of this wall.
The fact that the people who live in this compound could see this poverty every morning right at their doorstep and just drive home in their mercedes is simply astounding to me.
These walls are terrible for the community in my opinion. This seperation between rich and poor is harmful to the community and could cause an uproar of the poor. This country has already had civil wars in the past and has no need for another one.
