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Mara 18
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Mara 18, M-18, or MS-18 is a grouping of young gang members, the majority of whom are from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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MS-18, like the Mara Salvatrucha, started in Los Angeles, California. Fleeing from the conditions created by the bloody civil war in El Salvador during the 1980s, people migrated north. The new Salvadorian immigrants who arrived in California felt isolated and were targeted by gangs. Some Salvadorian immigrants joined the Mexican 18th street gang, as it was already established. Salvadorians who committed crimes were deported to their home country, which then gave birth to MS-18.
Over the years, MS-18 has extended to many cities within El Salvador and has been incorporated in other countries within Central America, primarily Honduras and Guatemala.
MS-18 developed the same criminal actions as MS-13. This violence incited the responsiveness of the authorities and immigration in the U.S.A., which chose to jail their members and deport them to their countries of origin.
The word mara in Central America is equivalent to the Spanish term colla or gang/group.