2022年6月15日 · The Mara Salvatrucha was never a welcoming place for women. The gang controls their bodies, their sexuality and their behavior. Despite this, Flaca devoted her life to the gang, living by its laws and enduring abuse and violence.

Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area. Over time, the gang grew into a more traditional criminal organization.

2025年1月20日 · The Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, is one of the most notorious and dangerous criminal gangs operating across the United States and Latin America. Known for their brutal violence, transnational reach, and gang culture, MS-13 has become a symbol of organised crime's global impact, particularly in the Americas. ... Women and girls ...

2023年4月24日 · The study “Violent and Abused”, a joint initiative between several non-governmental organizations, examines the disempowered but crucial role of women in the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) street gangs in the Northern Triangle countries, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

2023年8月16日 · In the trunk with two other women is Adriana,* a former Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS13) gang member, squeezing her leg with her hands to try to contain the bleeding from an open wound. The paramedics and police begin to get the women out of the patrol car.

2018年3月4日 · Turf wars between MS-13, the country’s largest gang, and its chief rivals, two factions of Barrio 18, have exacerbated what is the world’s highest homicide rate for people under the age of 19.

As Iraheta, now 18, awaits sentencing for murder later this month, authorities say the killing may be a sign of growing female involvement in MS-13 in the United States.

2023年6月20日 · This barbaric attack was begun by female Barrio 18 gangsters (aka Pandilla 18 or the Eighteenth Street gang) locking rival female Mara Salvatrucha MS-13 inmates in their module and then setting the module on fire. This was accompanied by other killings that utilized a range of weapons including pistols and an assault rifle.

2021年8月12日 · Beginning with the murders of three trans women in less than 72 hours, MS-13 forced all trans women to flee under threat of death: 11 left the town between 2017 and 2019 in an unprecedented...

A look into the background of the MS -13, including its history, membership, structure, and operating environment is important to understand its connection to human trafficking. MS-13 is comprised of mostly Salvadoran nationals or first generation Salvadoran-Americans but also immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and other Central