Mara Salvatrucha

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Mara Salvatrucha
MS-13 gang member with gang's name tattooed on his back.
Founded:	?
By:	?
Years active:	1980 - present
Territory:	mostly Central America, United States, Europe
Ethnic makeup:	Hispanic
Membership:	100,000+
Criminal activities:	Drug trafficking, robbery, extortion, gun traficking, murder, contract killing, etc.
Allies:	Guerrillas, Drug Cartels, American Mafia
Rivals:	All opposing gangs.

Mara Salvatrucha refers to large gangs in Central America and the United States. The gang names are commonly abbreviated as MS^[1], Mara, and MS-13, and are composed mostly of Salvadorans,including Guatemalans, Hondurans, and other Central Americans. The Mara Salvatrucha gangs have cliques, or factions, located throughout the United States and Latin America.

The gang has moved beyond its Salvadoran and American origins and now can be found in other nations, including Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Spain, Australia, Great Britain and Germany, according to international press on criminal activity. Membership in the U.S.A. was believed to be about 20,000 and 100,000, world wide as of 2005.^[2] MS-13 criminal activities include drug smuggling and sales, black market gun sales, human trafficking, assassinations for hire, theft, assaults on law enforcement officials, and contract killing.^[3]

Their activities have caught the eye of the FBI, who in September 2005 initiated wide-scale raids against suspected gang members, netting 660 arrests across the country.^[4] In the United States, the gang's strongholds have historically been in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Miami, Southern California, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, Maryland, the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, Richmond, and Delaware. In Allentown, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and other areas of Pennsylvania, the gang is known for its street graffiti, which is used to depict their presence on certain blocks and also sometimes provides clues to their forthcoming crimes, including murder, robbery, narcotics, and especially as a prediction of retaliatory violence.

Former gang member Brenda Paz said that MS-13 is well structured, with multiple leaders, and that the gang's goal is to become the top gang in the United States.^[4]

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