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One of the most unique barrios, wich came out of LA, but is now all over the world is MARA SALVATRUCHA. Some people, wether from MS or not, may believe that MS started in El Salvador and was imported to America. This is false... MS is as American as apple pie. Where exactly it got started and were exactly they are now is very hard to pinpoint. MS may be every where and nowhere at the same time. It is hard to say wether it is the second largest barrio in or from LA, for it has relativily few definite territory. It has definite territory in the West Lake region, Hollywood, North Hollywood, North Hills, and allegedly in Hawthorne. It is definitly the most spread barrio, having sattelite cliques in at least seven countries, and maybe much more. Just inside the US they have the most satellite cliques, having at least one in every major, and sometimes otherwise, city. I know for a fact they have a clique in Vancouver, and I am almost positive they have a clique in Montreal and Toronto. The only city where they not be succesful in is New York, but they have atleast one clique there. There most notable satellite cliques are: San Francisco, Washington DC and greater Virginia/Maryland, Houston, Miami, Seattle and greater Washington State, Chicago, and I heard even in Alaska. There cliques in other countries are: every region of El Salvador, most regions of Guatemala, border regions with Honduras, most of Southern Mexico, to the dismay of many MS is the third largest LA barrio in Mexico DF, and now have semi reformed members in Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, and perhaps other regions of Spain were there is high prostitution rates. There are many misconceptions about MS and barrios in general. Some Mexicans believe all Salvadorans are from MS, and that can not be members of `Mexican` barrios. Many Salvadorans may think that all MS is Salvadoran. These are both false. For one, Salvadorans are most likely in every last `Mexican` barrio, and even started or spread many `Mexican` barrios. I know of many traditional Mexican barrios wich are now more than half Salvadoran, and some are clearly more Salvadoran than even MS. faketeen street, MS` main rival, has many Salvadorans in all its sides, and is the second biggest barrio in El Salvador, also being in every region. because of this faketeen street may also be in many of the places Salvadorans have spread to, but in far less numbers. It now may be true that Salvadorans may not join faketeen street, and perhaps that some faketeen street cliques no longer allow them. The history of MS is hard to trace. Some will say that it started in more than one place at the same time. Members of the NS MS in North Hills claim they were one of the original, if not the only original clique. Members of WS MS will say the same thing. I believe they started at the same time. MS` relationship with faketeen street is also very confusing. I have heard that they were once great friends, and that they had even fully cliqued up. This will explain why they have alot of the same cliques, and are always right next to each other. The most important one of these cliques is Hawthorn Criminals, wich both barrios have. I heard that MS had a clique called Hoover Locos too, but have never seen them. MS started in the early 80s or late 70s. There members were already dispersed, with the majority of them not living in the territory that they claimed back then. MS has always had phantom cliques, wich tag alot, but are never seen. That is why I said that they were every where and nowhere. This by no means suggests that they do not have active members. They have some of the most active members in any barrio, only needing one or two to cause a whole cliques worth of damage. They do not always play by the rules, and sometimes it seems that they have no rules. When Mexicans insult Salvadorans as a race, this causes Salvadorans to in turn dislike Mexicans. This will cause them to start an MS clique just to counter the Mexicans, whether the Mexicans are from a barrio or not. The difference between Mexicans and Salvadorans or Central Americans in general is this: Mexicans usually come from states like Michoacan or Zacatecas, or densly populated states in Central Mexico. They live a small town life, and are mainly agricultural. They do have violence from feuds, drug wars, or now LA barrio violence. They, generally speaking, are not initially violent when they come to the US. El Salvador and Guatemala is another story. In El Salvador they used to have volunteers pile truck loads of rigormortised bodies and dump them in barrancos or cliffs an a daily basis. It was comon to walk to the tienda and see a street splatered with brain particles and blood. People in Guatemala were getting kidnaped and tortured to the point of insanity, and later found to not even have been involved in anti-state movements. In the main university in Guatemala City, students were forced to give classes due to the fact that all the proffessors had got smoked, one by one. People wouldnt even apply to be teachers or proffessors, and had a better chance of living if they ran in front of a bus. In El Salvador, if you reached the age of 15 without having to identify a relative, you were blessed. These people saw carnage that even Faces of Death chose not to use. South Central is like Disney Land compared to the Salvador and Guatemala of the early 80s. If that wasnt true then why is there so many Salvadorans in LA and all over the world. San Salvador is one of the most modern cities in Central America, and if you go to El Salvador today it is hard to tell that a civil war ever took place. But just ask one person who lived that era and you will see. They will tell you about brains splattered on a wall while eating a sandwich. They have a whole soccer team of people that only have one leg. There was so many land mines set, that both the guerillas and the government has lost track of some of them. Little kids are dieing to this day because of this war. This is the reason my family came to LA. The word mara is the Central American word for gang, or mob. Before MS started, Guatemala and El Salvador were already dense with maras. MS did something wich I find is truly remarkable. They were deported from LA and came back to there former neghborhoods, and most of them were probably from a mara before they left. Instead of the Mara in LA taking the name of a big Mara already in El Salvador or Guatemala, the opposite happened. The big and little maras in Guatemala and El Salvador took on the name Mara Salvatrucha, wich in El Salvador trucha means slick, actually it means the same thing in MExico, only in El Salvador it is usually a trait, not like keep trucha holmes. Obviously what happened was that when all these Salvadorans, who were members of maras from El Salvador and maybe even Guatemala,but wich most likely did not get along, decided to form like a peaceful union. Then when they were deported back to El Salvador they performed the miracle of uniting the Salvadoran maras as well. It is obvious that MS started in LA because why would a mara in El Salvador call itself Salvatrucha... thats like a barrio in Mexico calling itself barrio Mexico. In El Salvador the maras did not get along and had bitter rivalries. When the vatos from MS came back they conviced members of there former mara to convert to la Mara. They did this even though former enemies were now also converted to la Mara. After they had a little success they either forced the other maras to join or eliminated them old school style... one by one. It is my belief that Salvadorans were already members of 18 Street and other barrios in LA long before the the Mara started. Because of this faketeen Street can actually claim to be the first LA barrio in San Salvador, and probably every other region on El Salvador, wich is ironic. There may be dozens of barrios from Los that started little cliques in Salvador before MS did. These barrios either did not try, or couldnt acomplish, making former maras join. Even if they did, it would have been insane for them to even think of trying to unite enemies, this is as unorthodox as it gets. Now faketeen street and Crazy Riders have started larger cliques in El Salvador, and this is probably because there was some maras that hated MS so much that they chose to side with faketeen or Crazy Riders. I visited Guatemala and El Salvador last in 92. There were alot of maras, as usual, but virtually no MS. Now both El Salvador and Guatemala have been overrun by MS. It is still a street level gang, and maybe even a lower level of street than the LA gangs. The activity they do the most, perhaps, is pipming hoes. Prostitution is a very lucrative raquette in El Salvador and everywhere. Salvadoran women are also exported world wide as hookers as well. This is perhaps one of the brightest futures certain Salvadoran women may have, and are not ashamed of it all. This has caused MS pimps to now be on the world market. They are in the red light districts of Northern Europe, and pimping like crazy. They are also in the slums of Spain, and I assume Italy and France, trying to act like their on Leeward and Western, or 6th and Grandview. They took Macarthur park world wide, and these guanacos are loving it. They got a little El Piojito right in Amsterdam. They slanging micas out there too, old habbits die hard. If you ever need auto insurance in Malaga just hit them up. They pimp alot of Dominican hoes too. They got a treaty with the Cossa Nostra right now, they call it twos and fews. I hope them fools dont catch on to this illegal cigar trade in Europe, or else them fools are gonna try to Platinumize their bodies. The same as with most barrios, however, saying MS is not saying one thing. Even if it was, what good would it do them to be the deepest barrio or mara in El Salvador, and all these other cities. MS is more like a franchise, without the quality control. Its just a way for all Salvadorans to be able to claim one thing, instead of dividng themselves. A comon belief is that Salvadoran members of other barrios hold some favor for MS. I have personally seen at least one member of a barrio wich did not get along with MS hop. I have seen whole cliques off barrios wich were bitter enemys hop too, however. I have also seen affluent members of MS hop to a bitter rival. Its like if a barrio was called Michoacanos, and thought themselves to be superior to other barrios wich were not from Michoacan, it is my assumption that members of other barrios will not just dislike them, but be their most zealous contras. Now MS has a West Side and a North Side for sure, and possibly a South Side, but I have never heard of an East Side. The reason may be that cliques that start in other regions still carry the West Side, but I doubt there is absolutly no MS clique in the East and South Sides of LA. The thing with MS is that they will overlap another barrio regardless, unless they jump in Mexicans who live in their barrio, assuming that any Mexican wants to join MS. I know Guatemalans and Hondurans and other Central Americans join MS, but not exclusively. They may choose to join MS more than other barrios, but on the same token may choose to join other barrios. It all depends on if they feel Mexicans or Salvadorans have done something against them. Ther is a barrio wich is for Guatemalans, called Chapines Trece, but few people know that other Guatemalans, and they therefor have many Mexican members who think that Chapines means something else, or is made up for another reason. Chapin is the nickname Guatemalans use on themselves. And by the way, the traditional nickname for Salvadorans is guanacos, not truchas or salvatruchas. They probably want to use this name more now since it has a better connotation, implying that their slick or smart. Guanaco on the other hand may imply that you are slow or dumb, so by calling them salvatruchas you are actually complementing them. Either way Chapines trece is very small, and I doubt it is still around. Now Guatemalans just join another barrio and call themselves Chapin from that barrio, or just use a regular name with no one ever assuming they are Guatemalan. The thing with Guatemalans is that there in between Mexico and El Salvador, yet have no real allegiance to either one. They also have relatively no allegiance to each other as far as barrios and maras, wich is also the Guatemalan word for gang. Guatemalans dont acustom to braging about there nationality or making a big deal out of it. There is however alot of Guatemalans in the USA, and Canada, and some estimates say as much as Salvadorans. But Guatemalans are evenly distributed between LA, NY, and Florida and Texas. They do not concentrate in any one place, except near Macarthur park with the Salvadorans and other Central Americans. In LA they act like Mexicans and in the East Coast they act like Puerto Ricans. Salvadorans are equally distributed too but they have much more nationalism. Guatemala had a civil war equally as bloody as El Salvadors, yet they are not as violent as MS`. Most Salvadorans dont join barrios either, but the few that do. The difference between MS and other barrios, or traditional barrios is that MS will use any means necesary. Traditional barrios went by a code of honor, in MS world staying alive is more important than honor. In an old barrio, like in many cultures, dying for your barrio made you a hero and a legend. To MS living to kill another day is more imporant, much the same way as the Vietnamese or South East Asian gangsters. It is more likely for someone in MS to claim to be from no barrio, and then creep from behind with a cohete. This is not true for all members of MS, but there is a great number of MSers that arent even official members going and taging, jumping or even smoking another vato. This is what makes them so dangerous. If they wore a tag that said MS, like some do, thats one thing. To dress like a paisa and act like one but tag and jump or even smoke people, thats something else. They use the surprise element like there back in the selva.last but not least the ms organization it compose by cliqes subdivitions that still belongs to the gang ms.Allegedly ms13 has a comittee wich decides who are real cliques and who are just wannabees. Their large sides make them hard to control and highly beurocratic. They have never fully united to achieve one common goal or against one common adversary. They will most likely continue to grow and prosper because of their enormous popularity.if theres any information left please contact me.
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