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    Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the...
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  • The word “mara” points to the widely known gangs referred to as MS-13 and 18th Street. In the name Mara Salvatrucha, which the word mara became generalized...
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  • the civil war. La Mara Salvatrucha (or MS-13) has a reputation of being the world's most dangerous gang. The flow of La Mara Salvatrucha gang members between...
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    the region were federations of the Crips, the Latin Kings, MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha), NETA, and the Bloods. In the American West, as job cuts continued...
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    best-known gangs, called maras in colloquial Salvadoran Spanish, are Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and their rivals 18th Street; maras are hunted by death squads...
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    Disciples Marielitos Medellín Cartel Mexican Mafia Mexikanemi MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) Ñetas Norteños Nuestra Familia People Nation Puro Tango Blast Savage...
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  • Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (March 8, 2023). "Él es el pandillero de la Mara Salvatrucha condenado a 1.310 años de prisión". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved...
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    committed by the country's two largest criminal gangs (also known as maras): Mara Salvatrucha (more commonly known as MS-13) and 18th Street gang (Barrio 18)...
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     13–18. WOLF, SONJA; Logan, Samuel (August 2010). "This is for the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang". Journal of Latin American...
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    The most well-known gangs, called "maras" in colloquial Spanish, are Mara Salvatrucha and their rivals Barrio 18. Maras are hunted by death squads including...
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  • Gangster Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Mexican Mafia, Norteños, Sureños, and Vice Lords have been...
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    18th Street gang (redirect from Mara 18)
    The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican)...
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  • Fukunaga movie Sin Nombre in the role of Willy, nicknamed El Casper, a Mara Salvatrucha gang member in Chiapas, Mexico. He was picked through Terco Producciones...
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    the Catholic Church, and the country's two largest criminal gangs, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18), came to a truce, known...
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    role of Li'l Mago, leader of the Tapachula faction of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang. In 2015, he appeared as Carlos Mamani in the biographical disaster...
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  • plays the role of El Smiley, a young adolescent introduced into the Mara Salvatrucha gang by El Casper (played by Edgar Flores). Having witnessed the murder...
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  • located in. The Mara Salvatrucha, or the MS-13 gang are located in the United States, Canada, Mexico and El Salvador. The Mara Salvatrucha gang was founded...
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    transnational criminal organizations, including 18th Street (M-18) and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13). Harsh anti-crime policies (known as La Mano Dura), enacted...
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  • September 2004 and mid-2015, it exclusively housed members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang. During this time, El Salvador had a policy of segregating gang...
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  • Sundance Film Festival. Willy, nicknamed El Casper, is a member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang and lives in Tapachula, a Mexican town near the border with Guatemala...
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    the US-Mexico border; however, doing so is detrimental to gangs like Mara Salvatrucha, who make money through people smuggling, and as a result MS-13 is...
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    criminal gang subcultures to indicate membership or affiliation with Mara Salvatrucha. The significance is both the resemblance of an inverted "devil horns"...
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    Salvadoran government operation to arrest criminal gang members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street gang in the city of Soyapango. The operation...
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  • Gangster Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Mexican Mafia, Norteños, Sureños, and Vice Lords have been...
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  • to crack down on criminal gangs in those two cities, particularly Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang. In those cities, the gangs are accused...
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    been arrested since this law was amended as of November 2022. Both Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18) have their origins in...
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    that the gangs use to mark the territory in which they operate. The Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 gangs, among others, were estimated in 2022 to...
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  • suspected rapists. Morales stated that Guandique, a fellow member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, confided to him that he had killed Levy while trying to rob her...
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    "Drugs & Crime; Gang Profile: Mara Salvatrucha" (PDF). U.S. Department of JJustice. Retrieved 2007-12-30. "Mara Salvatrucha: MS 13" (PDF). Archived from...
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  • long". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 17, 2024. "La Mara Salvatrucha Street Gang – San Francisco". Sfweekly.com. Archived from the original...
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