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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.
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.
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).
The Florencia 13, also known as South Side Florencia 13, Florence Gang, F13 is an American criminal street gang based in Los Angeles, California, composed mainly of Mexican Americans.
Some madres buscadoras work individually, while others work as part of larger coalitions. The MNDM, or Movimiento por Nuestros Desaparecidos en México, is a coalition of 80 such groups, founded in 2015. [2] The mothers have faced hostility from the state and from other groups. [3] Some mothers have themselves gone missing or been murdered.
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, abbreviated FMLN) is a Salvadoran political party and former guerrilla rebel group.
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (Spanish: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, 1985) is an Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Madres (lit. ' Mothers ' ) is a 2021 American horror film written by Mario Miscione and Marcella Ochoa directed by Ryan Zaragoza. It stars Ariana Guerra, Tenoch Huerta , Elpidia Carrillo , Kerry Cahill, Agung Bagus, Jennifer Patino, Britton Webb, and Evelyn Gonzalez.