Gangs In Central America

The Latin Kings, originally known as The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, is one of the largest and organized Hispanic street gangs in the U.S. This gang was said to have been started during the 1920’s under a different name in Chicago, Illinois but we officially discovered in the 1960’s. Their main desire was to protect their neighborhood while maintaining to preserve the identity of their culture. They had five points of respect which were, “Respect your brothers ny your crown and your nation. Mark by truth. Your word is your crown your crown is your nation, a king must live by this word. The condition of being united into a single whole, one for all, all for one. The knowing of lessons

In the last decades, narco trafficking and organized crime had emerged as the main security threats in Latin America. Deviant globalization increase their power by establishing connections with similar organizations in other parts of the world, like cocaine distribution networks, for example. This perceived danger increases the pressure on the governments for effective solutions, and some of them consider that these problems had overwhelmed the capabilities of the local police. Consequently, the intervention of military forces would be necessary to secure the stability of the countries. However, the use of force as the only solution is the outcome of a misunderstanding of the root causes that generates them. This paper presents the research for a general pattern in the region that is helpful to understand how the civil society perceives the failures of governance and how the networks of illegal activities exploit this perception.

There are approximately 1.4 million active street, prison, and outlaw gang members comprising more than 33,500 gangs in the United States, according to the National Gang Intelligence Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Gangs are defined as a group of people who form an alliance for a common purpose and engage in violent or criminal activity. Gang violence continues to grow in California. It is inarguable that the gang problem has become more entrenched, over the past 25 years, especially here locally in Porterville.

. The shutting down of factories in South Central Los Angeles contributed to a number of gangs forming. Many African Americans moved to that particular part of the city because of how well the factories. The city also grew in population because of all the jobs that were available. When the jobs were gone and the factories shut down and move to other states the youth were left without role models. A fifteen year old boy named Raymond Washington started the gang which eventually became known as the Crips. Furthermore, with all of the other young people without jobs and role models they pulled together and started another gang of people that were not a part of the Crips. This gang will also change names a couple of times and become the Bloods.

The correlation between gangs and drugs has always been an issue for the United States government. Major cities often overlooked the problem of youth gang violence, thinking it was only a 1960’s trend. Sixty years later, gangs and drugs continue to be a problem, but in an increasing number within urban, suburban and rural areas in the United States. People may characterize this problem with words such as violence, increase drug activity, and delinquencies, but not many seem to see the bigger picture. Lack of interaction, collaboration, and strategies from law enforcement, youth centers, businesses, churches, and political icons are increasing gang violence and drug related offenses in major cities. In such cities as Chicago, minority groups are the most vulnerable to joining a gang, which then leads to an involvement with drugs; they are faced with barriers – lack of family support, poverty, segregation, unemployment, etc. An incident that happened in Chicago history is the closing of the Cabrini-Green Project, where people involved with gangs had to find a new home, scattering gang-members throughout the city, and eventually leading to their spread and growth.

Gangs and Organized Crime in the United States is on the rise. With the increase in turf wars, position and the financial gains, gang wars and Organized Crime are linked together in many ways. Within this paper, I will show how they are all tied together in. The M-13’s are the largest reported gang controlling large areas of our states. However, the largest area to which the MS-13’s control is within our own capital, Washington D.C. Their leaders rule all the gangs from inside El Salvador. I will discuss other gangs, and their ties into Organized Crime.

Today’s violence in El Salvador consists of ruthless gang members. According to CRS (Congressional Research Service) about 30,000 kids have joined the maras and it will continue to increase. Due to the gang violence, children are fleeing the country to prevent from becoming victims or recruited, furthermore families are streaming into the U.S to seek asylum. Alike today, El Salvador experienced the same immigration crisis back in 1980 when the civil war was the cause for Salvadorans to immigrate to the United Sates. Repression and violation of human rights was the root cause, now gang violence is the root cause striking a similar pattern of the effects of violence. In 1980, El Salvador’s right-wing government had death squads to kill citizens for suspicion of supporting a social reform. Military soldiers attacked many villages, including El Mozote in which men, women, and children were tortured and subjected to sexual violence.

What this means for gangs is that it gives them the leeway to get apprehended in an effort to recruit new members. Having that knowledge has bolstered their courage as they are taking advantage of the system by allowing themselves to be captured giving them the opportunity to coerce any willing illegal that would like a chance to make it further inland. Gangs often take advantage of the migrant worker routes in a concerted effort to avoid running into law enforcement that has been trying to contain the issue in the major cities. The members of this gang have all committed horrible crimes, have a long list of criminal records, and they are all illegal (Illegal Immigrant Gangs, 2009). These gangs in no way shape or form are a benefit to society

Central American women might experience the same exact thing they were attempting to escape from while migrating through Mexico: being sexually assaulted by gangs. For example, a Mexican gang dedicated to, “stealing and harassing the

I'm from a country where is relative normal hear this kind of news, but Salvadoreans gangs got other reasons to this kind of stuff. Salvadoreans gangs many times have been supported by government opposition to attack government programs, but this is not El Salvador. This is America. We cannot say that gangs have declared "100 days, 100 nights" because they have been supporting or encourage by the government opposition, here is happening something else.

The gradual impoverishments of the Central American countries, the few job opportunities, earthquakes and hurricanes disasters, and the violence that is lived for several years at those countries seem to have contributed to the creation of a culture of migration. In different countries there have been networks of people engaged in human trafficking. Migrants say that there is no easiness to contact these networks in any Central American country. When there are resources these networks are accessed to. When there are no resources to pay for a “coyote”(name given to the person trafficking migrants), people do it on their own, using roads and other means such as the train, following other people who also migrate. In that road they face an increased

After reading the article, I would have to agree that murder is not a nationwide problem. Firstly, I completely agree that it is a problem in certain urban areas. However, as a whole country, it is not an issue. My family is from a small country in central america known as El Salvador. In El Salvador, there is at least one murder everyday due to the gang violence in the country. The gang issue has gone out of hand that there is even a travel warning. Thus, knowing of the violence there, it is no comparison to the “problem” some think we have here. After looking at the data provided in the article, it was not surprising. It is evident that there are urban areas with a murder issue, such as the city of Chicago. I believe that there should be

Abstract: This review studies in depth research done on street gangs. Social issues have social scientists turning away from including this in their research around this time. Sociological views have been changed dramatically in the past 40 years due to gender and racial studies. Also, women have started to join gangs since America has been changed with woman equality laws passing.

Ninety percent of cocaine that enters the United States comes from Mexico. In exchange Mexico buys most of their weapons from America says CNN in their Mexico Drug War article. The average american probably doesn’t know about the gangs, drug lords, and drug trafficking that is happening in Mexico today.

Every day people are faced with images of violence, but few people notice that women are disproportionately affected. Women are frequently victims of gender based violence, “violence that is directed against a person on the basis of gender” (MuJER Guatemala). While gender violence is prominent in much of Latin America, in Guatemala it has become an epidemic with 1-2 women being murdered every day (MuJER Guatemala). Overall, Guatemala has the third highest rate of femicide, which is defined as the “systematic killing of women (MuJER Guatemala). Women are being targeted and harmed in mass numbers. From a quote attained by Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, “‘more than seven hundred women, mostly from poor families, [had] been