MARAS: AMERICA'S FUTURE - PART 1Photos by Victor J. Blue
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Members of the Mara 18 gang help another with his wounds in the El Hoyon prison in Escuintla, Guatemala.
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On the morning of August 15, 2005, jailed members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang threw three grenades, smuggled in by prison guards, into a dormitory housing members of the Mara 18 at the El Hoyon prison in Escuintla, Guatemala. They then walked in and shot or stabbed the survivors to death. It was the worst prison riot in Guatemala in years: Eighteen people were killed, and more than 50 were injured.
You better already know about MS-13, aka Mara Salvatrucha, aka the possible future ruling party of America. A massive, nebulous conglomeration of Latino street gangs that stretches all across the States and Central America, the Maras thrive in some of the most godforsaken neighborhoods in the world. MS-13 is the oldest and largest of Maras, but there are plenty more to take its place should it ever be knocked from power.
In the 1980s, immigrants fleeing the brutal civil war in El Salvador landed in Los Angeles and banded together to protect themselves from other LA gangs. The original group called themselves the Mara Salvatrucha Stoners and more or less looked like Hispanic metalheads (kind of awesome). As new chapters and divisions sprang up, their look gradually gelled with the cholos surrounding them. |
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A dead Mara 18 member being wheeled away from El Hoyon in the aftermath of the riot. Mara Salvatrucha coordinated simultaneous attacks in five prisons across the country, leaving a total of 31 gang members confirmed dead.
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See all articles by this contributor Anonymous, on Sep 9, 2009 wrote:
If I recall, Brown Pride a very small gang managed to push ms back. MS seem to be easy push overs, even 4 corners hustlers have wiped them from the streets. | | Anonymous, on Sep 3, 2009 wrote:
Note to self: Stay away from guys with huge facial tattoos. | | Anonymous, on Aug 25, 2009 wrote:
They are not the future of the US, the other 95% of their communities that arte hard working law abiding citizens are.
And they will not take over the continent, they cant even take over a couple blocks in McArthur Parque. | | Anonymous, on Aug 9, 2009 wrote:
What’s with the faggy "secret clown" aesthetic? Is there some kind of tortured symbolism behind it? | | Anonymous, on Dec 20, 2008 wrote:
what bunch of *ankers | | Anonymous, on Sep 23, 2008 wrote:
I guess now is the time fot the KKK and it"s Kniteriders | | Anonymous, on Jun 30, 2008 wrote:
These are just pawns in the game. No one ever talks about who is really pulling the strings. Iran contra has never stopped. It just got larger and more spread out. International wall street bankers make out with clean records, and a huge cut of the laundered money. Without the drug profits, the U.S. economy would collapse. Google "Mike Ruppert". He proved everything. Even offers a thousand dollars to anyone who can prove his facts are wrong. So before you spout off at me. His web site offers a 1000$ to anyone who could disprove any of his documented evidence. Oh yeah, he is in recovery in another country after being giving Columbian Devils breath. 20 countries have offered him exile. He has risked his life to expose some of the shit that is destroying our country. I think he deserves to be honored for his actions. We’re all fucked! | | Anonymous, on Jun 27, 2008 wrote:
Fucking great giving latinos a shitty name in this country all my parents worked for for 30 years down the dam toilet thank you! | | Anonymous, on Jun 27, 2008 wrote:
This gang is seriously scary No one likes them in El Salvador government wise the law "mano dura" or strong hand. lets the El Salvadoran police arrest anyone with gang related tattoos clothes or anyone who pulls gang signs. | | Anonymous, on Jun 24, 2008 wrote:
Its bad thinking on the overview
but fuck- u americans sometimes just sound so so stupid? | | |
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