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Rodrigo Abd The Associated Press
"Guatemala Gangs"


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El Black and "Rooster," members of the Mara 18 gang, assault a man over a drug dispute in Guatemala City, Aug. 14, 2003. The gangs control the small time drug trade in their neighborhoods. With Honduras and El Salvador outlawing street gangs, neighboring Guatemala is struggling to deal with increasing crime and homicides. Many of the gangs originally started in cities like Los Angeles, but they were transplanted to Central America along with gang members deported for crimes committed in the United States.
 

 

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