Marco Lara Klahr, Hoy te toca la muerte: el imperio de las Maras vis to desde dentro (Mexico City: Editorial Planeta, 2006)

摘要

Mara Salvatrucha (MS or MS-13) and Calk 18 (Dieciocho) have developed into the largest street gangs in northern Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras) and the Central American immigrant community in the United States. Mass deportations of foreign-born gang members exported the US street gang culture, notably MS-13/Dieciocho identities and the conflicts between these groups, and transformed the regional gang landscape in unprecedented ways. Their proliferation and growing delinquent orientation has fed the perception that these are transnational street gangs that have mutated into organised crime groups.