Mara Salvatrucha

Angeles, the gang 's reach now extends from Central American nations like El Salvador and through Mexico, the United States, and Canada("More MS-13 News." MS-13. Web. 9 Mar. 2015. <http://www.insightcrime.org/el-salvador-organized-crime-news/mara-salvatrucha-ms-13>.) Since MS-13 is located in high populated areas their impact…

Long time holder of the title “Murder Capital of the World,” Honduras has only gotten worse over the past decade. In the past few years, Honduras has had roughly 7,000 homicides each year out of its population of 8 million. This is an extremely high number for a Latin American nation, even considering its long history of violence. As one can assume, many have been astonished upon learning this and wanted to investigate how this number came about and continues to quickly grow. What people found…

The FBI deemed the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, the most violent street gang to be known to this day (THE GLOBALIST). This gang does not hesitate to kill anybody that acts suspicious or tries to prevent their growth and success (THE GLOBALIST). The main sources of income for this…

security housing unit or SHU, where they are on lockdown twenty-three and a half hours a day. In theory this would prevent that dangerous person from communicating out orders to commit heinous crimes, but that is not always the case. MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha is a Latino gang that is considered to be the largest and most dangerous gang in the world. The 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment estimated “MS-13 to have between 30,000 to 50,000 members worldwide, with 8,000 to 10,000 in the United…

that we have well organized and established gangs in America working with entities such as Daesh, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hezbollah, and others right here in our backyards. One of the major players in this atrocious arrangement is La Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13. MS-13 is a Los Angeles based gang comprised of mostly Salvadorans and people of other Central American descent. They have long controlled the flow of drugs, weapons, and illegal aliens coming in though the…

police to allow him to take his water on the truck. The border police allowed it. (approx. 1 hr. 20 min) Three new vocabulary words and definitions: 1. Wetback A Mexican living in the US, especially without official authorization. 2. MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California. It has spread to other parts of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. The majority of the gang is ethnically composed of Central…

The gang MS-13 was created by a war torn country of Salvador and MS-13 motto is “rape, control, kill” (Fazeli, 2011). The Mala Salvatrucha or MS-13 means Salvadorian gang and is believe by experts that is the thirteen letter of the alphabet. The MS-13 was formed in Los Angeles California in order to combat predatorily attack on Salvadorian immigrants. The Mala Salvatrucha is made up of cliques who have names of sailors like “Pelages, Uniones, Normandy, Fulton’s”(Fazeli, 2011) and this cliques…

the textbook, Sociology A Down-To-Earth Approach, the question “What is Deviance?” is asked. In my opinion, the answer would be the gang followed in this documentary video. Their name, MS-13, in Salvadorian Spanish, stands for Mara, meaning “group” or “clique” and Salvatrucha is commonly known to mean “street smart”. (Wikimedia Foundation) The majority of the acts that the MS-13 gang commits are deviant, because of the reaction to those acts. As the textbook states, “It is not the act itself,…

I can list all the fact in the world based on why tattoos in the workplace are and are not accepted in the workplace, but that’s not what intrigued me into writing about tattoos. I find tattoos self portraying because not only does oneself reveal based on the art made in our bodies, but the significance it has on us and the image itself. Many people may not care or know but we all have a right to express ourselves which includes showing your tattoos. Although tattoos in the workplace are not…

a) Degradation ceremony/ pg. 200: a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone’s self by stripping away that individual’s self- identity and stamping a new identity in its place. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) is a gang organization that commits its members to identify with the gangs collective mentality and dogma. To achieve gang conformity, MS-13 uses many rites of passage to prove that a prospective member is able to serve in the gang. These degradation…