Maras y pandillas en central america pdf

Soldier 76% collaborator informant 15% leadership 9% position in the gang. In recent years the group has acquired a reputation for extreme brutality and has ostensibly mutated into a fastexpanding, transnational organized crime network with possible ties. Pandillas en honduras insight crime investigacion y. Maras and gangs, community and police in central america sida. Maras were hunted by death squads including sombra negra. Pdf maras y pandillas en centroamerica investigacion. Gangs are thought to be composed of members ranging in age from 12 to 24, but some gang members are adults well over the age of 24. Pdf maras y pandillas en centroamerica investigacion maras. Almost all maras display tattoos on their bodies as a sign of their affiliation to their gang. In part this is due to serious challenges in analyzing pandillas.

This discussion report contains a preliminary analysis of the problem of youth violence and maras and pandillas in northern central america with a special focus on guatemala. Central america, the systematic use of violence and the brutality shown by the new type of gangs is no. In central america and the caribbean, there are two main. Maras y pandillas en honduras preparado por insight crime contrato no aiddoti000800034. It analyzes the responses of the state and society toward the problem of youth violence. However, we presume that this everpresent danger is, as in. Maras y pandillas en centroamerica investigacion maras.

Gangs in central america congressional research service 2. Maras and national security in central america open pdf 249 kb the level of attention directed at the maras, pandillas, or gangs, in central america and the united states, is increasing rapidly. Strategic insights is a monthly electronic journal produced by the center for contemporary conflict at the naval postgraduate school in monterey, california. However, there are different types of central american gangs and thus one has to distinguish between pandillas and maras. The maras and national security in central america. The importance of territorial groups in central america unodc. There is minimal scholarly literature on pandillas and security.

Rodgers, muggah, and stevenson gangs of central america iii. Informant 1, aged 24, former mara leader, pandilla 18, guatemala. When referring to gangs in central america, some studies use the term pandillas and maras interchangeably, while others distinguish between the two. Maras y pandillas, comunidad y policia en centroamerica. Maras y pandillas en centroamerica investigacion maras and gangs in central america article pdf available may 2008 with 56 reads how we measure reads. In recent years the group has acquired a reputation for extreme brutality and has ostensibly mutated into a fastexpanding, transnational organized crime network with possible ties to. Differentiating between pandillas and maras youth gangs have existed since the 1960s and 1970s in central america. Pandillas and security in central america request pdf. The mara salvatrucha ms and its main rival, the 18th street. The best known maras are mara salvatrucha and their rivals calle 18. Pandillas and security in central america thomas c. The maras and nacional security in central america.