1. In 1-2 sentences, describe the origins/history of Mara Salvatrucha.
-originated in Los Angeles, set up in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants in the city's Pico-Union neighborhood who immigrated to the United States after the Central American civil wars of the 1980s.
2. How has deportation of illegal immigrants contributed to the growing numbers of Mara
Salvatrucha?
-It makes the whole gang wide spread to different parts of the world where the ms13 members would recruit members and make their gang more populated and wide spread.
3. Discuss TWO of the publicized crimes. What happened? What was the effect?
-On July 13, 2003, Brenda Paz, a 17-year-old female, former MS member turned informant was found stabbed on the banks of the Shenandoah River in Virginia. Paz was killed for informing the FBI about Mara Salvatrucha's criminal activities. Two of her former friends were later convicted of the murder
-On May 13, 2006, Ernesto "Smokey" Miranda, an ex-high ranking soldier and one of the founders of Mara Salvatrucha, was murdered at his home in El Salvador a few hours after declining to attend a party for a gang member who had just been released from prison. He had begun studying law and working to keep children out of gangs.
No comments:
Post a Comment