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An MS gang sign and tattoos. Membership in Mara Salvatrucha consists primarily of Salvadorans and Salvadoran Americans, but also Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans, and other Central and South Americans. [6] Central Americans are the primary targets of violence and threats of violence by MS-13. [19] Many of the victims are minors. [20]
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 ...
Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that emerged in Los Angeles, California in the second half of the 1980s. This gang was founded by Salvadoran migrants. Over time, Mara Salvatrucha grew rapidly in size. Mara Salvatrucha members compete with the earlier existing M-18.
Experts trace the gang crisis in El Salvador to the United States' 1990s-era deportation of Salvadorans suspected of belonging to Los Angeles-formed gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
Lawmakers passed the reform to target anyone who spread or otherwise reproduced graffiti "or any form of visual expression" attributed to gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha and its rival Barrio 18.
On Friday, Trump will highlight his administration's push to deport members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, better known as MS-13, the existence of which his White House blames on lax enforcement of ...
An MS-13 suspect bearing gang tattoos is handcuffed. Mara 18 and MS-13 are the largest and most notorious in El Salvador. Mara 18 is also known as 18th Street and MS-13 as Mara Salvatrucha. 18th Street was formed in the 1960s by Mexican-American youth in the Rampart neighborhood of Los Angeles, California." [22]
Two senior members of the violent MS-13 gang are among more than a dozen indicted for a series of grisly machete murders across Long Island and Queens, according to prosecutors....