{"product_id":"book-dgs1","title":"State of War","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil war stoked by American foreign policy. But the gang found its way home a decade later, as the U.S. began deporting thousands of convicts each year back to the Northern Triangle--El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Today, those countries share the world's highest murder rates, and account for 70 percent of the migrants arriving at the U.S. southern border.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeign correspondent William Wheeler tracks MS-13 from L.A., where he meets the founders of the gang, to El Salvador, where three generations of Salvadorans have been drawn into an escalating cycle of conflict. \u003ci\u003eState of War\u003c\/i\u003e tells the tragic story of a brutal civil war that has never ended.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328854073648,"sku":"BDdgs1","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/538105-dgs1-Square.jpg?v=1733727285","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dgs1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}