Alex Sanchez is a former high-ranking member of MS-13. He became involved in the gang in the 1980s in Los Angeles and participated in its expansion. Sanchez was deported to El Salvador in 1994 ...

Elmer De Jesus Alas Candray was promoted for his work killing suspected rivals and rebels within the Salvadoran group.

How did MS-13 become one of the deadliest gangs in the world? With origins in Los Angeles, this gang expanded rapidly, ...

MS-13, also known as "Mara Salvatrucha," is believed to have been founded as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by people fleeing civil war and violence in El Salvador.

MS-13, also known as “La Mara Salvatrucha,” grew out of a Los Angeles street gang that was formed by Central American immigrants in the 1980s, and metastasized into one of the nation’s most ...

MS-13 is also known as Mara Salvatrucha and is believed to have been founded as a neighborhood street gang in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s by people fleeing civil war in El Salvador.