Gang violence is soaring in El Salvador. The country's murder rate is one of the highest in the world. Now, amid criticism, the government is debating whether it should deploy the military. Authorities in El Salvador have registered closer to 4,000 homicides in the past year. If the death toll continues to rise at the same pace, one in every thousand of its 6.3 million Salvadorans will have been murdered by the end of the year. Outside war zones, only Honduras has a comparable homicide rate. But now, the killing is on the rise again: the death toll reached over 3,900 in 2014. If the current daily murder rate stays at 16 homicides per day, then last year's total will be surpassed by the end of August 2015. Organized crime in North and South America is continuing to spiral out of control and resulting in more violence and more deaths. They say, "The retaliatory nature together with the rhetoric is telling." But this is nothing new, either is the escalation of government corruption.