VivirLatino

It’s not something you hear about often. How street organizations, aka gangs, move their industry to Latin America making them even bigger and transnational. What results is that neither the U.S. or Latin American nations are equipped to deal with the results. Personally, I know of a friend of mine who was recently killed by a gang member in El Salvador after being deported from the U.S.

Two gangs that originated on the streets here have grown so large in El Salvador that there are two prisons in that country devoted exclusively to their members, one for each gang, according to officials who traveled there recently to meet with the local authorities.

So what to do. No one wants crime, here or there and how to do it without resorting to racial profiling.

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