As a boy, Miguel Angel Tobar fled a small town in El Salvador torn
apart by warring guerrillas and US-backed death squads. As a teen
in Los Angeles, he fought discrimination and beatings by joining a
gang, MS-13. By the time the US deported him to San Salvador, the
Hollywood Kid joined a wave of US-bred gangsters, whose violence-in
concert with corrupt offiicals-have in turn helped propel new waves
of refugees. The incomparable Salvadoran journalist Oscar Martinez
got to know the Hollywood Kid and met with him as he first turned
on MS-13, killing gang members, and then in turn was assassinated
by other gang members. In intensely vivid scenes, Martinez and his
anthropologist brother Juan tell the story of a violent life and
death-and of the geopolitical forces that propelled a country into
becoming one of the most violent on earth.
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