El Salvador has now found itself being apart of the region’s drug trade after being bystanders for a long time. Sea-routes have been heavily patrolled by governments over the last few years, making over-land trafficking a better option. Also, a new highway funded by the U.S. has made it easier for cocaine and other narcotics easier to get through El Salvador. Ever since the roadway was built, Mexican gangs have started moving shipments through with the help of Salvadorian street gangs and secretive networks left from the country’s civil war. The U.S. dollar makes the country a “money launderer’s paradise.” Politicians and several businessmen have been said to be on traffickers’ payroll and laundering money for them. The country’s civil war