MS-13 Gang

Mara Salvatrucha is the name of the most dangerous gang of criminals that originated in Los Angeles. This band is also active in Central America. The abbreviation of Mara Salvatrucha MS-13 is. Usually members of Mara Salvatrucha are immigrants from Salvador living in Los Angeles. Mara Salvatrucha was born in 1980 when a civil war was happening in El Salvador. In 2005 the U.S. government estimated there were nearly 50,000 members of MS-13 in Central America and nearly 10,000 members in the United States.

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During the civil war in El Salvador in 1980, many of the people of Salvador are migrating to the United States to escape execution. Many moved to Los Angeles and Washington DC. Many found that there was no work and places to hold a good life. The first immigrants were many problems and they created the Mara Salvatrucha gang to protect their families. Over time the gang developed to do criminal acts like drug smuggling and murder their enemies and rivals.

Now Mara Salvatrucha gang is magnified. This problem is resolved in a loose on the border between Mexico and the United States and corruption with immigration officials in other countries. Also, there are loopholes that allow people who were deported back to the United States. The United States government, the FBI is deporting immigrants who do severe crime in the United States. So many members of Mara Salvatrucha were deported to El Salvador, his native country. So the band is expanding in El Salvador and created many problems for the police in El Salvador. The story of Mara Salvatrucha is always violence.

Fig .2 The distinguishing feature of members of the tattoos all over his body.

The original fort a few hundred members, who were founded to protect themselves from other Hispanic gang oldest and most established in the neighborhood, MS-13 has become, in recent years, a sprawling organization and international , presented in thirteen U.S. states, as well as El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Canada. The very meaning of its name shakes. The word "mara" means a species of ant that devours everything in its path. "Salvatrucha" comes from "Salvatrucho" means young fighter and El Salvador. As for the origin of number 13, he represents both the 13th letter of the alphabet, M, associated with the th, with which the Mexican Mafia MS-13 works. 

But it is also the result of superstition, which gang members are usually very popular. It is thus not uncommon that after having committed a murder, a gangster makes the sign of the cross. Thirteen minutes is on the other hand, the time allotted to the rites of initiation, all the gangsters must undergo to be accepted by the other gang. If it is a girl, she is raped by several members of the gang. If it's a boy, he was beaten bloody and thus proves his courage and strength. The number of maras, now estimated at 50,000 worldwide, and their activities, ranging from drug trafficking to arms sales through auto theft, organized crime and trafficking in undocumented migrants, so ...