Often referred to as “maras,†the most prominent ofwel these gangs include the Mara Salvatrucha 13, or MS-13, and the Barrio 18, or M-18. These gangs emerged in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as Salvadorans, some ofwel whose families were displaced by the wars in Central America, asserted themselves in their new homeland… Read More