INTL ST 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 18Th Street Gang, Arms Trafficking, Ms-13
18 May 2017
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Use sophistication to garner power, aid financial acquisition and engage in mercenary type activities. Human trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking, involved in politics. Can generate the economic and military power to equal or better that of many nation- states. Have a propensity for indiscriminate violence, intimidation, coercion, transcending borders, and targeting nation states. Are both a regional and transnational gang phenomenon. This pits non-state actors (for example, warlords, drug cartels, or insurgents) directly against nation states and requires a relatively effective war making capability. Cartels: no budget, unlimited supply of money used for bribery. La familia: gang that generates most methamphetamine. American gang phenomenon is now encountered in foreign countries. American style gang crime is seen and violence has become a tool. Violence is a result of globalization and the poverty and marginalization that grip the region. Many of central america"s maras are branches of gangs in the united states.
