El Salvador Gangs: MS-13, Barrio 18, and the Crackdown The two gangs that have dominated El Salvador for decades, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street Gang (Barrio 18), originated not in Central America but on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s
Bukele invokes the Nuremberg trials to justify mass trials against gang . . . The Salvadoran government has launched a mass trial against 486 alleged gang leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha‑13 (MS-13), including 22 supposed members of the group’s top echelon, known as the Ranfla Nacional, whom authorities accuse of ordering 29,000 homicides committed between 2012 and 2022
Salvadoran gang crackdown - Wikipedia A crackdown on gangs began in El Salvador on 27 March 2022 in response to a series of homicides committed by criminal gangs between 25 and 27 March 2022 which killed 87 people
MS-13 and mass trials in El Salvador - The Week Prosecutors in El Salvador have opened a mass trial of 486 alleged members of the infamous MS-13 gang on charges ranging from homicide and femicide to extortion and arms trafficking They have