Mara Salvatrucha

MS-13, which is the abbreviation of Mara Salvatrucha, was started in Los Angeles, California during the civil war in El Salvador. In 2005, the FBI declared MS-13 to be the most dangerous gang in the United States and the entire world.Who are they? Members of Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, who are mostly Salvadoran nationals or first generation Salvadoran-Americans, but also Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans, and other Central and South American immigrants. And according to our recent...Read Full Story

The Department of Homeland Security endangered the lives of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents by waiting months to alert them of a notoriously violent Salvadoran gang’s plots to murder the agents and their families. The daunting information was brought to  Judicial Watch by outraged Homeland Security sources that provided the written memo warning ICE agents in the U.S. that Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) had specific plans to kill agents and...Read Full Story

Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang,are heavily involved in smuggling operations between the United States and Latin America. Drugs (banned but in demand) and human beings (restricted but useful for exploitation in scut jobs and as sex slaves) are smuggled north. Cash (proceeds of drug sales) and guns (tools of drug trafficker armies) are smuggled south. It’s a natural fit. Mexico has strict gun laws. The United States is a wide open gun bazaar. Almost any nitwit can get into...Read Full Story

Mara Salvatrucha a.k.a MS, Mara, and MS-13 is a criminal gang that began to operate in Los Angeles in the 1980s. The MS has spread across the United States and Central America with startling speed, boasting tens of thousands of members. They deal ruthlessly with competing gangs and any members who display disloyalty, often leaving a trail of dismembered corpses in their wake. They are poised to surpass the Mafia as the country’s most organized criminal network. And by operating within the...Read Full Story

Mara Salvatrucha is a gang that originated in Los Angeles and spread to Central America and parts of the United States. Mara Salvatrucha is therefore composed of many loosely-connected gangs or factions of the same name, known as "cliques". The gangs' names are commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13, and are composed mostly of Salvadorans, Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans. Text: wikiRead Full Story