MS-13

EspañolEl Salvador has a gang problem, and its army is feeling the effects of it too. Since 2010, 615 members of the country's armed forces have been removed from its ranks due to gang connections, according to Defense Secretary David…
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Español The MS-13 gang has at least 1,200 members in Los Angeles, who are known as "mareros." It is widely considered to be the most violent and dangerous criminal group in the southern California city where the organization was…
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Español According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency (ATF), on Wednesday, Los Angeles police carried out more than 50 raids aimed at capturing leaders of the MS-13 gang. "Today we have broken the…
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Español US President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions met Tuesday morning to discuss the notoriously violent Salvadorean gang MS-13. Donald Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office in which he…
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After what was one of the bloodiest weeks in El Salvador since the 1980s civil war, on August 24 the Supreme Court of El Salvador declared street gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 and their financial backers to be terrorists. The…
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EspañolEl Salvador's outgoing President Mauricio Funes acknowledged on Monday that the gang truce that cut the country's murders by half for nearly two years has collapsed. The March 2012 peace agreement between the Mara Salvatrucha and…
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