The Psychology of Fear

The most criminal gang in latin america is called by many different ways like the MS, M16 or the mara Salvatrucha. After the central american civil wars over the 1980's Salvador Immigrants created the MS in LA. The gangs protect salvador immigrants from other gangs because they are better and stonger gangs in the city, after being deported many mara Salvatrucha went to prison. The gangs use many body signals to communcate between them. Some of the signals they use are the gang signals specially hand signs. But the one they use the most is the devil head which they made a form of the letter M but upside down. They use lot of tattoos to cover themselves also to identify them to see which are their member of their gang. The devil Horns, salvatrucha and MS are the common markings and also they use many other symbols. When they have a new member to the gang they have to make this really harmfull bet that is that for 13 seconds they are going to get all beaten up by many others. If they dont resist they dont enter to the gang but if they do, they are now members of the gang. Central America's greatest problem has become the Salvatrucha. Thery made many violent things to citizens or to other gansg in which death also comes, many of them die. They also made many violent acts against the governement. In Honduras there happen to be a case in which Ricardo Maduro's son was kidnapped and later killed by the MS-13 gang members. After this, the members of the gang sent a letter saying that they will kill many others and that they were going to kill police officers and many others so now they were alarmed.

The MS also have internal mistakes like if they go made between them or they got into a fight they may died. Many of the gang members know that they need to be fully loyal, not to betray others and not to leave the gang if not the punishment is to take their lives.

This gang memnbers own respect by following the rules. also they own respect from others because people are really scared of them since they know what they are capable of so now they dont mess with them.