The Gangs of Central America

The gang leader always got paid, OK?

Tom seems to be a member of a gang.

Sami is part of a rival gang.

My great grandfather was the leader of a gang.

The gangsters of the city were organized in gangs.

My great grandfather was a gang leader.

Graffiti with the initials of Mara Salvatrucha gang.

Tom was killed by his own gang members.

Sheltered by indifference, the gangs grew.

We really got access to everybody in the gang.

In other cases, the drivers are accomplices of the gang members.

Somebody tipped off the gang members to the police surveillance.

There was a lot of gunfire there were a lot of philosophical discussions he had with the gang members.

They get the name of the gang behind them, for merchandising and marketing.

That the young people controlled the gang that, as you got older, you dropped out of the gang.

The head of the gang was a 27 year old native of Chechnya with a prior record.

I was tattooed, and this lets everyone know that you are part of a gang.

In El Salvador, the gangs became an issue at the end of the 1980 s in Guatemala and Honduras, the gangs appeared in the first half of the 1990 s.

3, 2014, 15 Maldivian journalists received an anonymous SMS threatening them for their coverage of the gangs in the wake of street violence which has seen at least one death and a number of injuries. Rizwan was not threatened by SMS, but covered the news and tweeted about it gangs threatening journalists for covering gang violence incidents. Maldives pic.twitter.com BL8OKc37B5 via MaahilMohamed مجنون ( moyameehaa) August 3, 2014

And you couldn't charge dues to the people in the gang, because the people in the gang didn't have any money.

Now, it's amazing, but the top level of the gang, they actually call themselves the board of directors.

You know, he would say to his friends, Hey, look at all the money I got in the gang.

So being a gang leader in the inner city wasn't such a bad deal in the mid '80s.

Poverty, structural violence and marginalisation are strong factors to why both men and women have joined gangs.

Other common reasons why women join gangs are being in abusive relationships, having a partner already in a gang or wanting to feel safe from potential rape on the streets.

Heavily armed bands of modern day pirates in speedboats are terrorizing ships in Somalia s coastal waters.

This hasn t happened, and officials now acknowledge that they have a huge problem on their hands.

According to some estimates, as many as 70,000 children in China are abducted by gangs each year.

They're talking about the decision of why they don't go shoot one thing that turns out to be a great business tactic in the gang, if you go and just shoot in the air just shoot guns in the other gang's territory all the people are afraid to go buy their drugs there.

At that time, there were rumors that if you went around with red hair you were this gang if you were blonde, it was another.

The numerous militias, groups, gangs, and individuals who own and use weapons must be controlled.

Gangs flourish because weak institutions fail to guarantee and respect the fundamental rights of children and young people.

Secondly, I want to tell you how somebody like me came to be able to see the inner workings of a gang.

He says, If we start shooting around there, in the other gang's territory nobody, and, I mean, you dig it, nobody, going to step on their turf.

Which, it turned out, for this black gang, was not one of the more brilliant financial endeavors that they undertook.

And so for instance, one thing the gang would do is you know, the gang leaders would have big entourages, and they'd drive fancy cars and have fancy jewelry.

71. Some organized gangs engaged in common crime act in the name of former paramilitary organizations or death squads.

The gangs then upheld classic Japanese virtues of manliness and loyalty and paid for mistakes by slicing off one of their fingers in atonement.

The gangs are now more organized in El Salvador because the authorities confine many of them in separate jails according to their specific group.

And now the gangs appear to be invading southern Mexico, because Central America s repressive policies have sent many gang members running north.

The beheadings of the men, who were reportedly members of a gang, bring Saudi Arabia's total number of executions this year to 47.

The National and Jakarta police chiefs were called and, under massive public pressure, the leaders of the mob were criminally charged.

In 1983, he attended a course at the infamous School of the Americas, the counterinsurgency training institute where many of the region s most brutal military officers learned their craft.

And he ended up in south Tel Aviv and did not have the good luck to be picked up by a unclear and roamed the streets and became a prominent gang member.