The violence in El Salvador

Abstract

Violence as a social behavior is a matter of concern in today's "civilized societies". Their manifestations fill the pages of newspapers and are widely disseminated in television media.
Commercial cinema, advertising, so-called television action series, sell violence as facts worthy of imitation, poisoning the minds of children and adolescents.
The abuse of force, the mastery of martial arts, the constant confrontation between good and bad, has led to the idea that only the strongest, the most cynical, the most soulless, in short, the most violent, have in their hands the possibilities of achieving the success of their pernicious purposes.
From their first years of consciousness children are nourished by sophisticated weapons to play war, to reject the extraterrestrials who come to harm us, to fight with all the techniques of kung fu, judo, and other schools of violence. Few remember the example of Gandhi, and his passive struggles, his strategy of non-violence, to achieve the independence of India.