2023年11月20日 · The 18th Street Gang, also known as Barrio 18, is one of the largest gangs in the Americas. Like its better-known rival, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), the Barrio 18 has cells operating from Central America to Canada. 18th street has a much larger presence than MS13 in the United States.

The 18th Street Gang, also known as Eighteen St, Barrio 18, Mara 18, or simply 18 in North America, [1] [15] [16] [17] is a multi-ethnic (largely Central American and Mexican) transnational criminal organization that started as a street gang in Los Angeles.

2016年1月7日 · Transnational gangs like MS-13 and 18th Street are extremely violent and routinely make money by extorting citizens. The government of El Salvador has designated both gangs as terrorist...

2023年11月14日 · The 18th Street Gang, also known as Barrio 18, is one of the largest youth gangs in the Western Hemisphere, much like its better-known rival, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13). While the gang has cells operating from Central America to Canada, it has been greatly weakened in El Salvador following a nationwide security crackdown, launched by the Nayib ...

2023年5月18日 · For decades, the MS13 and the 18th Street Gang dumped victims' bodies in ditches and streams, on roadsides and wasteland across the notoriously dangerous district of the capital, San Salvador....

2023年2月25日 · Two notorious gangs dominate El Salvador. The MS-13 and their rivals, the 18th Street gang. Both originated from Los Angeles and spread through Central America. The Human Rights Watch has...

2020年2月11日 · The largest gangs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are M-18 and MS-13. Originally known as 18th Street, M-18 was formed in the 1960s by Mexican-American youth in the Rampart neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. 11 The founders of the gang started M-18 because they were excluded from the Clanton Street gang.12 The gang grew by

2020年8月31日 · Eighteenth Street (18th Street) is a gang originating in the Pico-Union District of Los Angeles. It is one of the gangs frequently mentioned in a transnational context and often referred to as a mara—a type of sophisticated gang—due to its presence in El Salvador and other parts of Central America. [1] .

2017年8月5日 · Authorities in El Salvador were quick to fix blame on the gang and President Salvador Sánchez Cerén swiftly implemented a package of “extraordinary measures” to crack down on violent crime. The only problem was that it wasn’t MS-13 that carried out the massacre. It was a gang known as Barrio 18.

2021年12月8日 · The 18 th Street members who arrived in El Salvador were placed in a country recovering from a civil war. Salvadoran society witnessed atrocious acts of violence throughout the civil war by both the rebels and the government. In the aftermath of the civil war, El Salvador was “roiled by post-war political upheaval…