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From Guerillas to Gangsters: Neoliberalism, Transnationalism, and the Rise of Mara Salvatrucha

By Matthew Lymburner and Eliot Che — February 27th, 2008
Contemporary security discourse emphasizing “terrorism” has displaced the focus on the “gang epidemic” that prevailed in the latter decades of the twentieth century. However, since 2005, law enforcement agencies and media organizations have sparked a renewed interest in gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), dubbed …