Under FMLN president Mauricio Funes (2009-2014), informal civil-military relations produced a largely undemocratic domestic-security response — troops in the streets — and a rising trend of militarization; the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords demobilized the old war but never reintegrated former combatants or rebuilt the economy, leaving transnational gangs and the drug trade as democratic El Salvador's dominant security challenge.

— In our words · Source: Civil-Military Relations and Militarization in El Salvador (Stephen D. Rittermann)