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Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s.Originally, the gang was set up to protect Salvadoran immigrants from other gangs in the Los Angeles area.
La Pandilla en Apuros ("La Pandilla is in Trouble") is a 1976 musical teen-comedy film featuring the well known teenage musical group from Spain, La Pandilla. [1]The film, which was produced by Alfred D. Herger, was recorded at the Condado Beach Hotel (where the group stayed at for the duration of the filming) and at other locations in San Juan, Puerto Rico, including the Isla Verde ...
A mara is regarded as a group of delinquents of Latin America origin who reside in the United States but have spread towards Central America; namely, in the countries belonging to the Northern Triangle of Central America: Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
La Pandilla was chiefly instrumental in the later success and development of one of history's most legendary boy bands: Menudo. In 1973, the future founder of Menudo, Edgardo Diaz , who was a medical student in Spain and lived next door to the Aguirreses, joined the band's entourage as a sound expert.
The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [14] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [15] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
Mexican American street gangs originated in Los Angeles in the early 1900s as a result of various factors, including economic conditions and racial prejudice. In 1957, the Mexican Mafia (or La Eme), California's first prison gang, was established by Luis "Huerro Buff" Flores and other East Los Angeles gang members, at the Deuel Vocational Institution.
Mother (Spanish: Madre) is a 2019 Spanish-French drama film directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and co-written by Isabel Peña. The film is based on the 2017 short film of the same name directed by Sorogoyen. [4] It stars Marta Nieto, Jules Porier and Àlex Brendemühl.
Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book The Gangs of New York. [7]