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In 2003, in Honduras, the president responded to the mara problem by forcing a change in the country’s penal code, establishing a maximum 12-year sentence for gang membership and he increased the sentence to 30 years and put the army on the street to support the nation’s 8,000 police officers.
The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [15] [16] [17] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles.
On 24 November 2022, the government of Honduras declared a state of emergency regarding gang violence in the country. [6] On 3 December 2022, the government announced that some constitutional rights would be suspended in the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to crack down on criminal gangs in those two cities, particularly Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang.
Officials have said that the violence was the result of a clash between the rival Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs. Police said that a number of the victims of the riot were burned to ...
Honduras will return control of most of the country's penal system to the military police for the next year, the Central American country's presidential office said late on Wednesday, a day after ...
By RYAN GORMAN San Pedro Sula lays claim to a dubious title -- the world's highest murder rate. The impoverished Honduran city's roughly one million residents were slaughtered by drug gangs at a ...
Igor Padilla, a colleague of Rivera's, was shot in January by four men wearing police uniforms in the northern Honduras city of San Pedro Sula. [11] The men who murdered Padilla are suspected members of Mara 18. [2] Padilla had covered crime and also hosted the humorous television show "Los Verduleros", which Rivera was the cameraman for.
MS-13 and Mara 18 have an unknown relationship with drug traffickers. El Salvador police report that traffickers cultivate ties and build alliances with gangs that eventually mature into international syndicates. The drug business has been growing with more gangs becoming involved with them and disputing over territory with the drug traffickers ...