Mara 18

…Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street Gang (Mara 18). In March 2012 mediation by Roman Catholic clerics led to a truce between the gangs that resulted in a significant decline in the country’s skyrocketing homicide rate. In 2013, however, the truce began to collapse and violence again escalated. Large…

…Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street Gang (Mara 18)—two gangs that were at the center of the violence in Honduras and elsewhere in the region, especially in El Salvador—agreed to a truce.