Since 1979, United States policy in Central America has been based on an assumption that revolutionary movements led by Marxists must represent a serious threat to U.S. interests and security.
Ultimately, MS-13 is the story of the modern immigrant and the perennial battle to escape a vortex of poverty and crime, as well as the repressive, unequal systems that feed these problems.
A new aspect of low-intensity conflict can be seen today in El Salvador, where the decade-long insurgency appears able to continue without aid from traditional sources in Cuba and East...
This is a true testimony of life inside a wild gang, in a neighborhood governed by abandoned boys. Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson is a Salvadoran socio-cultural anthropologist committed to understanding violence in Central America.
13 14 15 16 For a discussion ofWalter Benjamin's treatment of consumers as a dreaming collective, see “Dream World of Mass Culture” in Buck-Morss, The Dialectics ofSeeing, 253–86. The Los Angeles historian Mike Davis has accounted for ...
The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States.
The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads.
A description of the largest, most violent gang in the world: Mara Salvatrucha 13, more commonly known as MS-13. This short, intense book is the the first to reveal its inner workings, written by an anthropologist who was there.
A Year Inside MS-13: See, Hear, and Shut Up
My family and other contradictions -- Wandering of a Salvadoran black sheep -- Jamaica -- Getting involved -- International work -- Repression grows -- Civil war -- Double life -- Making a movie -- Domestic notes from the underground -- The ...