GUATEMALA CITY - - Hardened in the streets and prisons of California and deported in the 1990s to the Central American countries where they were born, the members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang swiftly grew into a force of heavily tattooed young men carrying out kidnappings, murder and extortion.
Two Of Latin America's Deadliest Gangs Join Forces
ROMINA RUIZ-GOIRIENA, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: World
Sat, 04/07/2012 - 4:56am
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