Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 631: Rotten Country
If there is a ranking of bad countries in the world, El Salvador, a country with a land area of 2.1 square kilometers and a population of only 630 million, must be on the list!
In fact, Central American countries such as Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize, which are located on the drug transportation channel from South America to North America, are very bad!
But among these big corrupt countries, El Salvador is also a leader in corruption, and its corruption is beyond the comprehension of Mountain Eagle.

The gangs in this rotten country are so rampant that Shanying cannot understand...

According to El Salvador's own statistics, the number of deaths from homicides in the country reached nearly 2014 in 3000.

This death toll is more than the number of people who died in the war in Iraq during the same period!
Moreover, these are statistics after the cases are reported. The number of people who died in gang feuds or homicides that were not reported may be several times higher.

There are only more than 6 million people in the country, but the total number of gang members has exceeded 100,000, which means that there is one gang member among every 60 people...

This is an incredible number!
Because their population between the ages of 15 and 55 is only about 350 million. If we remove about half of the women, that means there is one gang member for every 16 adult men on average.

The media reports are all about the rampant gangs in El Salvador, but in the eyes of Mountain Eagle, this situation is actually a war among warlords!

If these gangs are understood as anti-government armed forces, then the gang bosses are actually warlords!

While they are working together to fight against the government, they are also attacking each other to seize territory, and the intensity of the fighting is no less than that in the current hot spots.

During the same period, Iraq had a population of 3800 million, 20 government troops, and about 15 warlord militias in various places.

Even in this social environment where terrorists are rampant, the number of people who die in direct gun battles in Iraq does not exceed 2000 per year.

The Salvadoran government army, navy and air force combined have only 4 troops, while there are nearly gang members who can hold guns.

How the hell can this get better?

In the past, Shanying didn't pay much attention to such small Central American countries because they had no trade value. However, after looking at a series of data in detail, Shanying suddenly discovered a very strange phenomenon.

That is, not all governments of countries can exercise their sovereignty, even if the country is in a state of peace.

This is very common in America...

Colombia has the Colombian armed forces, drug dealers, and guerrillas, and the government's decrees cannot be implemented at all...

The slums scattered across Brazil are actually autonomous states of anti-government armed forces, but the government keeps spending money to buy peace, so there are no violent conflicts...

On the surface, this shitty country of El Salvador is just full of gangsters, but in reality, they have been in a state of de facto war!
This country with a population of over 600 million has prisons that can hold 6 people, but in reality there are about 10 people in prisons.

More than half of these 100,000 people are related to gangs!

It is called a prison, but it is actually a prisoner-of-war concentration camp!

It sounds like El Salvador is hell, but in fact its per capita GDP is around $3800 and its life expectancy is 74.5 years.

In El Salvador, a poor place that cannot even guarantee basic medical services and where gangs are rampant, the fact that the average life expectancy is so low can only show that the geographical and natural conditions here are extremely unique.

El Salvador earns $70 billion in revenue each year from exports of coffee, sugar, palm oil, tobacco, cotton, and light industry.

The median monthly income per capita here is around US$400, and most of the necessities of life such as food and clothing are produced domestically.

Judging from the data, this country is not too bad at all. You should know that the per capita GDP of the University of Tokyo during the same period was less than 8000 US dollars.

However, in this unfortunate country, more than 40% of the population is struggling below the poverty line, and 15% is in extreme poverty.

The huge gap between the rich and the poor, as well as the not-so-low prices, made Shanying feel a little shocked...

This is a country rife with corruption and violence...

It is easy but also difficult to gain a foothold in such a country...

The simple thing is that there is politics here that can be driven by corruption. As long as you ask Mori for help and find a few NGOs with American backgrounds to support you, there will be no legal obstacles to investing in power plants in El Salvador.

The difficult part is that the security environment here is so bad that even God would shake his head and turn away...

If you want to build a power plant there and maintain it for a long time, the safety cost will be very, very high!
Moreover, El Salvador had not yet established diplomatic relations with the University of East China at this stage, which meant that if Shanying wanted to transport important raw materials from the University of East China, it would need an extra transit point, which would not only delay time but also greatly increase construction costs.

When Shanying was looking up the detailed information about El Salvador, he wrote down the pros and cons of investing in power plants and mining pools in El Salvador...

The black guy Sea Lion has no idea what his boss is doing. He just thinks his boss is very mysterious...

When the boss is thinking, there is an aura of money around him, which makes Sea Lion, a black guy from a poor family, admire him very much.

Sea Lion watched the boss stare at the densely packed notes. He grabbed the donkey's arm, blinked his eyes and said, "Donkey, now I know why we are all poor. It turns out that successful businessmen are like this!"

Donkey is considered a highly educated person. He glanced at the sea lion and said disdainfully: "The boss hasn't started the business yet, he is making decisions...

He is looking for and comparing favorable and unfavorable conditions and then deciding whether to invest.”

Donkey looked at the crazy Sea Lion and said with a smile: "Dude, the key to a person's success lies in 'choice'. Choice is more important than hard work! Think about your past failures in life. What were you thinking about when you made the key choices in the past?"

The sea lion was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought for a long time, then said: "I don't think I have thought about this question seriously. No, I don't seem to have the opportunity to choose at all.

When I was a kid, I didn’t want to go to school and wanted to go to the street to sell drugs to make money, so my mother drove me to school with a stick.

When I was in high school, I got into trouble with gangs and had to falsify my identity and age to join the army."

The sea lion looked at the donkey and said in horror: "FUCK, I don't think I've ever made a choice myself!"

Donkey originally wanted to teach the sea lion a lesson, but seeing the frightened and confused look on Old Black's face, he suddenly sighed and said, "Actually, I didn't either. The only decision I made was to join CCT, but you saw the result..."

As the donkey spoke, he glanced at the eagle that was writing and drawing on the "good and bad list" from time to time. He sighed and said, "It is difficult for us to make wise decisions on our own in this life..."

Sea Lion took out his cell phone and secretly took a picture of his boss's profile, recorded the core key of 'Choice', and then grinned and said: "Why?
I’m definitely not as good as my boss, but how hard can it be to make a table? "

The donkey was stunned for a moment, then suddenly nodded and smiled, saying, "That's right. The habit of making tables when encountering things has enabled us to surpass most people."

Sea Lion held the phone and pretended to type a few times like the boss, then squinted at the screen as if he had presbyopia, and finally asked curiously: "How do you think the boss knew where to find the information?"

Snowshoe, who had been sleeping on another sofa, was awakened by the sea lion's stupidity. He sat up, grinning with a mouthful of yellow teeth, and laughed, "How on earth did you American niggers live to this age?

I've never used a computer in my life, but I know to Google things, and a buddy of mine told me that you can find anything you want to know on it."

The sea lion glared at the sled angrily and cursed, "You son of a bitch, you are racist, do you believe I will blow your head off?"

Sledge was not afraid of the strong sea lion at all, he smiled and said: “Is stupid also racist?
Tell me what other great skills you have besides shooting and driving. If you can tell me one thing I don't know, just say sorry. "

The sea lion raised his middle finger to the sled and shouted, "I learned how to steal a car when I was 14 years old. Can you do it?"

Xue Liang was stunned for a moment, then he raised his thumb decisively and said, "I'm sorry..."

When the sea lion saw that the sled, who always gave him a chill, had given in, he instantly became happy...

Just when he wanted to talk and show off his achievements, Dalia came up to Shanying with a strange expression on her face and said in a low voice, "Boss, it's Matthias' call..."

Shanying took the phone and put it to his ear. Just as he was about to speak, he heard someone cursing on the other end...

“You’re f**king crazy, I just got done with LA a week ago and just flew to El Salvador today.

What the hell do you want to do?
I’m a killer, not a salesman. I’m not responsible for helping you with any commercial surveys, let alone helping you explore the way…”

Shanying held the phone farther away and listened to Mathias's scolding. He could imagine how funny this guy looked right now...

"50 million..."

Shanying said with a smile: "Go and threaten that money launderer Embeley, then have fun there for a few months, and help me explore the way.

It's very simple. Just rent a good house, commit a crime, and find a policeman to contact you, and you can find out where those politicians live.

I will ask professional surveyors to go there, and you can hire a few security guards to escort them to find locations rich in geothermal energy.

It took about three or four months..."

As soon as Shanying finished speaking, Matthias cursed loudly: "Are you fucking crazy?
Don’t you know what I do?”

"150 million, no more..."

Shanying decisively interrupted Mathias's complaints and said with a smile, "Dude, you are going to retire soon, so don't keep saying that you are a killer.

I'm giving you an opportunity to make a lot of money. The climate in El Salvador is great and it's definitely a great place to retire.

You are definitely not afraid of those gangs, right? If you are willing to set up a trading company there, I guarantee you will make a lot of money in the future."

Matthias, who was very gentlemanly, said angrily this time: “Have you been here?
Shanying, I have tolerated you for a long time. If you continue to disrespect me like this, I will..."

"Two million euros!"

Matthias paused...

"make a deal!"

(End of this chapter)