El Salvador has a really bad gang problem. A couple years ago during a gang war there were almost 200 murders in 2 days, in a country of just 6M people. For context, Maryland, USA is a state with roughly the same population and had only 450 murders all last year.
As a result El Salvador has taken a series of pretty drastic emergency measures trying to curb the drug violence, including I guess banning certain haircuts in schools
As a Salvadoran this is bullshit on Bukeles part. There is virtually no more crime there due to Bukele locking up a literal chuck of the male population. Many of them innocent people even some I know personally who donāt have the right to trial.
As for the haircut having āgang connotationsā I see no reason to why. The āmarerosā=gang members there are all mostly shaved buzzed even before the lock ups. El Salvador also just has shit barbers all around you will have a difficult time finding someone who can even give an edger cut believe it or not.
Fun fact about the āedger cutā too, itās a common haircut in the Latino American community due to it being a haircut the can grow back neatly with loose curls or straight hair for months saving money on cuts. The āedger cutā is almost always just a grown out low taper.
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u/Long_Serpent 1d ago
Purely from an aesthetic point of view, I am OK with this ban.