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The blockade of Soyapango was a Salvadoran government operation to arrest criminal gang members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street gang in the city of Soyapango.The operation began on 3 December 2022 when Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that 10,000 members of the country's security forces surrounded the city.
Even in the violent world of the MS-13 street gang, the killings in northern Virginia in the summer of 2019 stood out. In that year, “the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area became an MS-13 ...
On the day the 17-year-old died in the hospital, one person told police witnesses were threatened with violence by MS-13 gang members seeking to “eliminate” them.
Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization. MS-13 has a longtime rivalry with the 18th Street gang. Many MS-13 members were deported to El Salvador after the end of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992, or upon being arrested, facilitating the spread of the gang to Central America. The gang is currently active in many ...
NEW YORK - The woman convicted of luring five young men into a Long Island park where they were attacked by MS-13 gang members, who killed four of them, was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday ...
"How street gangs took Central America"—Foreign Affairs; BBC news - Combating El Salvador's gangs; Peetz, Peter (2008): Youth, Crime, and the Responses of the State: Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, GIGA Working Papers, No. 80 "I was an MS-13 gang member" TED Conferences - Lopez Gerardo; Homies Unidos.org ...
The evil MS-13 member known as “Little Devil” was sentenced to 50 years in prison for her part in luring four men to be hacked to death in a Long Island park. ... Escobar was only 17 when she ...
Beginning in the 1990s, crime committed by street gangs became a major problem in El Salvador after many Salvadoran refugees from the country's civil war began to be deported from the United States. Many of these deported Salvadorans were members of street gangs, most notably Mara Salvatrucha ( MS-13 ) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18).