Adrian Espinoza -The International Reach of the Mara Salvatrucha, by Mandalit del Barco

1) What is "Mano Dura?"
-El Salvador has a similar law, called the "Mano Dura," or Firm Hand, and now the "Super Mano Dura."

2) How are the police in El Salvador trying to prevent gang activity?
- they are in a battle with the MS 13

3) What does it say is the reason that MS13 started in Los Angeles?
-And some of the worst of those "monsters" — members of the Mara Salvatrucha — were created in Los Angeles, Calif. Immigrants from El Salvador living in the city's Pico Union area created the gang. In an effort to stem the violence, U.S. officials began deporting suspected gang members back to Central America in the 1990s.