MARA SALVATRUCHA, VICIOUS

TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME GROUP

ASHLEY FEENY

ORGANIZED CRIME ACTIVITIES

•DRUG TRAFFICKING

•HUMAN SMUGGLING

•EXTORTION

DRUG TRAFFICKING

•SMUGGLING SPECIALISTS

•PAID IN COCAINE, LEADS TO VIOLENCE

HUMAN SMUGGLING

•IMMIGRANTS

•KIDNAP AND MURDER MEN

•PROSTITUTION

EXTORTION

•VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION

•TARGETS TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES

•USES HORRIFIC DISPLAYS OF VIOLENCE TO ASSERT THEIR POWER

UNITED STATES AND EL SALVADOR’S ATTEMPT TO CRACK DOWN ON M.S-13

•DEPORTATION

•FIRM HAND APPROACH

CITATIONS • CRUZE, J. (2010). CENTRAL AMERICAN MARAS: FROM YOUTH STREET GANGS TO TRANSNATIONAL PROTECTION

RACKETS. GLOBAL CRIME, 11, 1-18.

• FARAH, D. (2012). CENTRAL AMERICAN GANGS: CHANGING NATURE AND NEW PARTNERS. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 66, 1-10.

• HESS, J. (2013) SOCIAL VISIBILITY AND PARTICULARITY IN ASYLUM” GAITAN V. HOLDER AND THE IRONIC REQUIREMENT OF SOCIAL PERCEPTION TO AVOID PERSECUTION. BOSTON COLLEGE JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, 33, 1-5.

• ON MARA SALVATRUCHA (2011). THE UNITED STATES-EL SALVADOR EXTRADITION TREATY: A DATED OBSTACLE IN THE TRANSNATIONAL WAR AGAINST MARA SALVATRUCHA (MS-13). VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW, 44, 1-10.

• WOLF, S. (2012). MARA SALVATRUCHA: THE MOST DANGEROUS STREET GANG IN THE AMERICAS? LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, 54, 1-21.