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Im going to use this page to work in my research. my topic its about THE GANGS IN EL SALVADOR, A SOCIAL PROBLEM. I like this topic because im from el salvador, and I see every day the problem that gangs means. __**GANGS**__ __FATP CHART__ Form: Research report Audience: Gaby and Grazzia

Topic: El Salvador Gangs  Purpose: To explain the origin of gangs, causes and consequences of gangs, how to prevent this and to help existing gang members. I- Ganster in el Salvador, most dangerous problem that cant be controlled. a- Most of the cases ends in a problems with the police or possible death. b- It’s a social problem, that begins since they are a little kids. 1- The government its improving new laws to controlled. 2- There is a lot of causes and consencuenses about this social problem. -they growup without a parents -the influence of their friends -they don’t have work, so they need to be inside the gangs to still and get easy things that they need. -sometimes they have to feel the love a family that they didn’t have, and they feel the gang like a family. II- Gangs and government in El Salvador. 1- Recently broadcast a program on Mara Salvatrucha called The World's Most Dangerous Gang. - Mara salvatrucha it’s the gang that have the most part of the people around the world with more than 500,000 gangsters. -This gang started in the 80 s with the emigration of the most of the people to united states and was in that country that begins. 2- The strategies used by El Salvador to fight gangs have their unique risks. In El Salvador, where the gang population is believed to be around 15,000, the strategy used against the maras has resulted in more violence. · Salvadorian President Tony Saca is asking for more help from the United States. ·  He wants the U.S. to stop deporting gang members to El Salvador. Saca, a close ally of the Bush administration, will have a tough time persuading the U.S. to do that, since deportation is a prime component of the U.S. plan to fight gangs. ·  More than 800 Salvadorans were deported in January of this year ·  more than 550 of them had a criminal record. The tactic is not only fueling a vicious circle of violence but could be counterproductive for the United States. In many cases, gang members who are returned to El Salvador quickly find themselves back in the U.S. committing more crimes.
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__**El Salvador Gangs**__ //To become a member of MS-18, typical initiation involved being "jumped in" and beaten by gang members for 18 seconds. Many factions of the gang have since done away with the initiation. // Finished the conflict armed with the civil war in El Salvador, an innumerable group of prisoners who were in the jails of the United States were deported to their natal country.

The majority of these Salvadorians had gone out during the beginning of the armed conflict that began in the 80's, they came to The United States and adopted the language and the culture of the poor neighborhoods and certainly the culture of the bands to defend their self from the assaults of the existing bands. Before the 90's, before signed the peace agreements, the level of delinquency and the crimes related to them was relatively low. And though the civil war left more than 70,000, the murders related to the delinquency during the years that lasted it was not so high as the one that nowadays we have in the country. The majority of the gang´s members deported after signed the peace agreements, marked the society and transformed into certain degree the worn culture of the ghettos wherefrom they went out as well as a vision completely different from what up to this date the Salvadorian population was accustomed to fighting. When less the population not tape-worm that to face the organized delinquency, the criminals' revenue with an experience in the crime brought a negative ingredient which nor the government or the population was prepared to face it. The fact that The United States takes a punitive criterion against immigrants to try to solve a problem of crime, has not given the results for that they were waiting, since they did not also consider culture to be the problem of marginalization to these groups were exposed. The majority of the problems of delinquency in The United States are given in regions where the poverty is one of the existing elements and, though many Salvadorians are had successful to join to the American society by means of the effort of the work; they will have to be understood, study and understand the climate of the epoch of the immigrants who fell down in the reasons to create the strong groups of gangs to which they were exposed, in the space of the time in which not all or the average had access and the same opportunities that they since illegally had, added to this not they all would live in the same zones where they predominated over opposite gangs that were attacking them. The arrival of the gang´s members to the country was an unexpected ingredient, they neither had there existed not even the controls themselves that the American jails possess to control the crime that one organizes inside these themselves to effect criminal operations out of these punitive centers. The little understanding and punitive criterion to treat the crime without trying the reformation has not also given the results that are looked to solve the problem since they does not manage to incorporate the individuals after these have gone out of the jail to fulfill their crimes. The punitive criterion does not have the element of reformation and the delinquent continues with the same mentality on having fulfilled their sentence. The sending of gang´s members that at least stopped fulfilling sentences only served to empty the American jails, solving of this form the reduction of costs to this society, transporting the social problem towards the second country that had just gone out of a violent conflict. This way they were that the population received the new Salvadorians turned into racketeers. A struck population, tortured even by the same police services, such military institutions as the extinct national guard and other one without purpose of paramilitary groups, which used as groups of counterblow the army to carry out a war not only against the guerrilla warfare but also against the population to suppress their organizations expressions and civil freedoms. Members of the gang were considered to be permanent participants until death, with the exception of becoming a "calmado" or "calmada", a reference to people who are still considered members but have retired from gang activities.

The consistent Salvadorian governments of ARENA, with a vision ultra conservative, in its beginning and up to the date, have used to try to control the organized crime the punitive methods. Accidentally to understand the nature of these Salvadorians who ultimately already had adopted a culture totally foreign to that of the country. United to this the gangs found a defenseless and damaged territory, a way in which they could expand their controls widely since the Civil State police was in organizational construction without training or complete understanding of what was this problem. Attaché to this, the members of the Civil State police (PNC) receive a salary very under which equally it has been said its helps to form caps of corruption that fall down in the temptation of the same crime. In the same stage the elements of the smuggling cocaine that during the war were happening from unnoticed form for Comalapa's airport and they served during the epoch of Reagan to finance it against, and it was not possible up to saying that they served to finance to the paramilitary groups as that of the squadrons of the death. For the 90's the consumption of the cocaine in El Salvador was relatively unknown, there would be social sectors that might consume it, but the prices of the drug were too high in order that this one was distributed to the rest of the population by few income. Today El Salvador has been considered catalogued as one of the countries by major consumption of cocaine or at least the derivatives of this drug. The introduction of the dollar turned to the country in a tax haven, but also in a territory to propitiate the wash of money. The gang´s members took the role of distribution agents of the derivatives of the cocaine in the middle of a new territory that was representing a potential market for their sale, perverting hereby the society in all their set. Only there were absent the business of the weapon that served to guarantee the circular vice of the violence. It is not of surprising that the new business of sale of weapon without control took force. It is not also weird that the ex-president Francisco Flores began with the programs anti punitive delinquency, but without trying from the beginning to cut of root the promotion of the same reason of the existence of these bands. It is not even strange that Rodrigo Avila, ex-candidate for the presidency act as the director of the police. Mr. Avila possesses his sale of weapon, reason for which he objected to that business were regulated, likewise in order that every nacional one was prohibiting the use of weapon. Rodrigo Avila a political failed personage who in two terms like the director of the PNC could control neither the growth of the violence nor the growth of the gangs. The gang´s members must be the ones laughing before this candidate, they have left with its before the inefficiency and incompetence that Avila possesses, in spite of the fact that proud of having coarse experience in the control of the crime and degrees even of the FBI, his failure as the director of the PNC demonstrates that these degrees are of adornment. Briefly Rodrigo Avila said to them you are welcome and your crime in this country performs great importance for the sales of guns. The gang´s members ones tattooed it for his failure. The control of pistols in several municipalities controlled by the FMLN such as San Martin they have reduced the number of murders to 38 %. Number that could serve as criterion and sufficient test not to allow that the citizens should carry nacional pistols is applied. The police are unable to control to the bands of gang´s members mixed now among the population that nothing has to see with them and that sometimes they carry weapon to defend themselves. The first gestations of violence carried out by the gangs that relate to the control of territories date back of the 90's after these were coming in big quantities to the country. Gang 18 and Gang “salvatrucha” fought to shots in full center, trying to impose their limits and borders in the territories that they were wishing for their control. Members of the catholic church tried to happen to finish this conflict, the war between the gangs had to be negotiated. Two new groups of violent Salvadorians were not understanding that the population was fed up of the war, whole they did not live through the conflict armed during the civil war. Possibly the success that there have had the social organizations that have been achieved to create for the incorporation of these Salvadorians the society, indisputable mind they are had successful with many members of the gangs for its reformation, have managed to do what there could have carried out neither the governments nor their directors of police. Many of these members of the gangs have could also in the middle of the chaos of generated violence, an inducement and motive for finding the sufficient means as also reasons to live foreign to the gangs. The maximum age to which a member of the gangs can aspire is less than forty years. While they are massacred the population who does not belong to the gangs can come at least a fifties or more years, if in case he is not a victim of the violence who today is lived. Avila R. (2007) The number of daily deaths in the country estimates in an average from 10 to 12 daily deaths, an annual number of 4000 dead men if we try to use the arithmetic, but the number is major when we see the reality. The violence nevertheless for certain social sectors has turned into a business that leaves big revenues and earnings, the crime that does not pay taxes, who pay them they are the citizens. The small and medium businessmen have to spend a number extra of money when there are extracted for same gang´s members that they promise not to get with his business in exchange for a quantity of money. Every worker who goes out of his house in areas dominated by the bands pays his quota, a quarter or 50 cents of dollar to keep satisfied and calm the gang´s members ones parked in the different corners. Quantity of money that he assures at least not to be a victim of any angry member. You must learn inside this reality that the diplomacy achieves in exchange for not eating; because the minimal salary that he earns (approximately 5 daily dollars) diminishes. Nevertheless the gang´s members ones meet limited and it is not precisely for the result of the police punitive policies, simply it is for a natural fact. The age. In agreement to the news the gangs’ members ones have begun to recruit the infantile population. In the middle of the crisis of misery that one lives in El Salvador, the more vulnerable population of the society is recruited now. The new modality of the gangs is minors, 10-year-old children recruit for above, with the variant of which they will not be tattooed, the gangs now seek to create a new identity that allows them to be mixed of effective form inside the same population. The law cannot chase these new members, the Salvadorian justice cannot punish minors.

In the middle of this, the politics of the government does not invest money to strengthen the educational sector, which destroys any effort to try to prevent these children from having at least a level of education that they of the opportunities to face the future. Far from it the Salvadorian young men and Salvadorians are seen as criminals, and this youth is attacked again as it happened during the armed conflict. To be young in El Salvador turns again into a stigma. The political dome of the government with its deliriums presents a clear and evident level of corruption that from above seems to feed the reasons themselves that generate the violence to support the population controlled under the climate of the terror that the gangs represent. They choose the easy and unproductive route to solve a problem that prevents the development of the social caps and all many of the economic sectors. People feeds with their anti village policies, neo liberal the economic climate of misery that generates the social contradictions, fomenting hereby the recycling of the reasons for which the violence feeds. While the gangs feed of these contradictions generated by the same government unable to contain them, constructing networks that have gone out out of the national borders to take control of neighborhoods in other countries.

Being gang´s members means not to have nationality, the crime in if he does not possess it, the reasons of his existence do not need from this border either. They have been stigmatized not to give them opportunities of incorporation in any society or country where they are. The gang´s members ones were created in the USA. A problem that was generated in the streets of the ghettos to fight, as poor against poor, which they degenerated in the same war losing the way of the same humanity. With a devil inside that expresses the fight between crime and punishment since there is no internal fight among beings, and neither scenes nor inducements exist for the fight between degeneracy and reformation. The governments that have treated the problem have done it of irrational form. While the gangs feed of these contradictions generated by the same government unable to contain them, constructing networks that have gone out of the national borders to take control of neighborhoods in other countries. It is clear that the juridical system has been dominated nothing any more for a political dome that governs possesses a criterion of injustice to prevail in the power, for boss himself of this thought they place the criteria for creating the social injustice, which is a bastion of which the violence is procreated. As a dominant criterion factor dominates the irrationality as an obstacle to overcome the problem. While a confrontation of the reason does not exist before the brutality of the violence, this social evil will not be able to use all the tools that the same society possesses potentially gradually to solve it. 