El Salvador’s press office recently released a video showing the transfer of over 2,000 suspected gang members to a maximum-security… May 29, 2024Off Decoding the Biker Gang Patches of the Bandidos ByVICE Staff ‘United Gangs of America’ airs Wednesdays at 9PM on VICE TV. The Bandidos ...
THE FBI has established a special task force to counter the growing menace of an El Salvador-based street gang whose members have spread throughout parts of the US. The move comes as President George Bush has set aside $150m (pounds 78m) and appointed his wife to head an initiative to ...
Murders have skyrocketed in El Salvador. Hundreds of people are being killed each month. The government is cracking down on two powerful gangs, but is it enough to stop the violence? El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world and the situation is only getting worse. Accor...
EL Salvador,MG Manwaring - 《Contemporary Challenge to State Sovereignty》 被引量: 74发表: 2007年 '(Young) Men With Big Guns': Reflexive Encounters with Violence and Youth in El Salvador The phenomenon of youth gangs has emerged as one of the most visible and feared expressions of violence ...
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and finacial security.Additional informationAuthor informationDonna DecesareDonna DeCesare is a freelance writer and photographer based in New York City She lived in El Salvador during the 1980s and has been documenting the lives of Salvadoran gang members in Los Angeles and El Salvador since 1993...
Gangs and Modern-Day Slavery in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala: A Non-Traditional Model of Human TraffickingTrafficking in persons, also known as human trafficking or modern-day slavery, is a criminal enterprise that affects virtually every country in the world. Altho...
The carnage being wrought in El Salvador this year is slowly attracting the attention of major English-language media in the United States. In the past week alone, Time ran a photo-feature on the country’s “War Without Sense,” ThinkProgress published
Quantifying exactly how much gangs have stunted development is tricky. Adrian Bergmann of El Salvador University says that the share of investment that goes to poor, gang-prone areas has fallen since the 1990s, another possible cause of thedisparity. Nonetheless, the bulk of the data suggests tha...
123 6 Maras and the Politics of Violence in El Salvador José Miguel Cruz Where does Mara Salvatrucha come from? How did the U.S.- born Eighteenth Street Gang become a powerhouse of the Salvadoran streets? The Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS- 13, and the Eighteenth Street Gang, ...