Merlo

He keeps Quan busily bludgeoning bad guys — including Cam Gigandet’s Merlo — with whatever weapon he has handy: pencils, staple removers, soda cans, laptops.

“They’ve realized what he’s been doing works,” Damian Merlo, an American adviser to Bukele who is registered to lobby on the Salvadoran government’s behalf, said in an interview from El Salvador.

Méryl Cruz Mermy and her husband, Benoît Merlo, who graduated in agricultural engineering from a prestigious Lyon school, have moved in the opposite direction from most young people.

Mr. Merlo, 35, sees a “crisis of civilization” in the countryside, where automation means fewer workers, the work is too arduous to attract most young people, and credit for investment is hard to obtain.

Shasta Ski Park owners Robin and Ray Merlo, according to a post on the resort’s Facebook page.