A Year Inside MS-13 (eBook)

See, Hear, and Shut Up

Juan José Martínez d´Aubuisson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Or Books (Verlag)
978-1-949017-16-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A description from the belly of the beast that is MS-13: the first book to reveal the inner workings of the most violent gang in the world, written by an anthropologist who was there. This short, intense book exposes life inside the largest, most violent gang in the world, Mara Salvatrucha 13, more commonly known as MS-13. Right in the heart of El Salvador's violent capital San Salvador, anthropologist Juan Jos Martnez dAubuisson observes firsthand an escalating cycle of violence between MS-13 and its sworn enemies from Barrio 18 as it becomes a war fought on a professional scale with grenades and machine guns. (Both gangs have their origins in Los Angeles, interestingly enough, not Central America.) For the better part of a year, dAubuisson was embedded in one of the cells of MS-13, where he learned its moral codes, rules, legends, and contradictions. His journey into the heart of the gang is guided by an enigmatic character, El Destino, a veteran founder of the gang. After many conversations with El Destino, the anthropologist begins to forge a strange kind of friendship with him, and understands not only the origin of the gang and its war with Barrio 18, but the deep-seated reasons for the regional violence. The book culminates in one of the most violent acts ever in an area that has seen more than its share: a full-scale attack on a public bus with thirty-two passengers on board. Fourteen people were killed and twenty-eight wounded. Almost all the principal characters in this book end up dying: some are killed in the war, while others fall to the state security forces. Those that do escape the war are imprisoned, exiled or murdered by their own gang. This is a true testimony of life inside a wild gang, in a neighborhood governed by abandoned boys.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Alt-right: From 4chan to the White House • Always Running: La Vida Loca • Angela Nagle • Anthropology • Blood in the Fields • Central America • el destino • Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America • Gangs • Gang violence • gang warfare • Gomorrah • Julia Reynolds • Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right • Luis Rodriguez • Mara Salvatrucha • Mike Wendling • Monster • MS-13 • origins of gang violence • Oscar Martinez • Roberto Saviano • Salvadoran gangs • San Salvador • Sanyika Shakur • Sociology • The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail • Vegas Tenold
• ISBN-10: 1-949017-16-8 / 1949017168
• ISBN-13: 978-1-949017-16-8 / 9781949017168