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  2. 18th Street gang - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Blockade of San Marcos - Wikipedia

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    The blockade of San Marcos is an operation by the Salvadoran government to arrest members of the criminal gangs of the Mara Salvatrucha and Mara Barrio 18 in the district of San Marcos. The operation began on October 28, 2024, when the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that 2,500 members of the country's security forces surrounded the ...

  4. 2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce - Wikipedia

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    From March 2012 to May 2014, the Salvadoran government, 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 in El Salvador simply as the Gang Truce (Spanish: tregua entre pandillas), [1] to lower the country's rate of homicides and extortions in exchange for improved prison conditions and ...

  5. Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown

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    A crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele, observers said Tuesday. Like ...

  6. Mejicanos massacre - Wikipedia

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    During the massacre, members of Barrio 18 shot at one minibus and burned a second, killing 19 people in total and injuring 14 or 15 more. The Mejicanos massacre was committed by the 18th Street gang in revenge for the killing of member of Barrio 18 in Mejicanos by MS-13, one of Barrio 18's rivals, the day prior. Since 2011, a total of 5 ...

  7. In El Salvador, poverty and gangs drive migration - AOL

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  8. Salvadoran gang crackdown - Wikipedia

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    [18] MS-13 and Barrio 18 engage in several types of crime such as murder, rape, kidnapping, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, intimidation, robbery, vehicular theft, and extortion. [19]: 742 [20] Both gangs divided El Salvador into territories, and by 2016, they had a presence in 247 of El Salvador's 262 municipalities.

  9. Notorious L.A. gang informant now accused of setting fire ...

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