BIO
ms 13 gang member
The MS 13 gang, aka Mara Salvatrucha 13, is one of the most violently and well respected gangs in the world. The extremly dangerous MS 13 gang has cliques, or cells, located throughout the United States and is unique in that it retains is ties to its El Salvador counterparts. With cliques in already indentified in califorina ,Washington DC, Illinois, Oregon,New York, Alaska, Arkansas, Michigan ,Texas, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, , Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and several other South American countries, the MS-13 gang is truly gone "international" and on the verge of becoming the first gang to be categorized as an "organized crime" entity.
Gang members, who sport numerous tattoos on their bodies and faces, like indian warriors. They sport the blue and white colors of the El Salvadoran flag. Their membership is estimated to total over 40,000 in the Honduras alone. Members typically range in age from 9 to 40 years old. Their increase in violent activities and careless disregard for the law (threats and attacks against law enforcement officials is common), has made them the most feared gang in the United States. Membership in MS 13 has grown rapidly even in places such as in Charlotte, North Carolina, MS 13 membership is estimated to be 200+. Police have implicated MS 13 in at least 11 murders in the Charlotte area in 2000 alone. Around the Washington DC area, local authorities estimate MS 13 membership to be between 8,000 and 10,000 members - by far the largest gang in the area. In July of 2003, the Washington DC area encountered three murders attributed to MS-13. The first was the murder of a federal informant. The second was the shooting death of a 17 year old boy. The third was the death of a 16 year old boy who had both of his hands completely chopped off.
Members is MS-13 cells are often initiated by being "jumped in". In one Washington DC event, witnessed by a reporter, the inductee was an 11-year old boy - he sought membership in MS-13 so they would protect him from bullies in his neighborhood. The rights of passage included placing the kid in a circle of gang members. The five strongest members stepped inside the circle with the 11-year old boy. As members began counting slowly to 13, 1..........2..... all the way to 13 the boy was beaten and kicked repeatedly until he reached the point of unconsciousness. If he had been a girl, the right to be in the gang could have been as much as rape. Also in order to join MS-13 you must first commit a violent act against someone else - either a beating, a rape, or a murder.
One of the biggest factors of MS-13 is their absolute intolerance for anyone who informs the police of their activities. Court papers in Nassau County detail recorded telephone conversations where a MS-13 member bragged how he had put a stop to a informant - "I put one in the chest and three in the head". Once you become a member of ms-13 , you are in for life.
The rules are you cannot act without the boss's consent - you cannot kill without reason, cannot talk to the police, cannot skip gang meetings, nor can you leave the gang. MS-13 has no tolerance for gang members who drop out. In March of 2004, 16-year old Edgar Guzman, was brought before the US Bureau of Immigration and Customers Enforcement in Colorado. He had entered the United States illegally, traveling from Guatemala on foot. In Guatemala he had been a member of the MS-13 gang. His sole reason for leaving his native country was to escape the gang life, live with his Aunt in Georgia, and begin school. He begged authorities not to deport him."If I had stayed in Guatemala, members of the Salvatrucha gang would have killed me". he said "I've seen them hit people with baseball bats and shoot them, I know how they kill people I know that if I go back to Guatemala they will torture me, They will kill me if I go back to Guatemala". He cried "please dont make me goback they will kill me because I left the gang".
On March 10, 2004, Edgar was released from jail and deported. On March 20, 2004, 10 days after he was deported, Edgar was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He had hidden in his home for 10 days and eventually left the confines of his house when his grandmother had unexpectedly died. He barely made it 5 blocks from his home before members found him and delivered the punishment that was deemed appropriate for his deserting the gang. Death is almost always the only means of escaping the clutches of MS-13.
Gang members, who sport numerous tattoos on their bodies and faces, like indian warriors. They sport the blue and white colors of the El Salvadoran flag. Their membership is estimated to total over 40,000 in the Honduras alone. Members typically range in age from 9 to 40 years old. Their increase in violent activities and careless disregard for the law (threats and attacks against law enforcement officials is common), has made them the most feared gang in the United States. Membership in MS 13 has grown rapidly even in places such as in Charlotte, North Carolina, MS 13 membership is estimated to be 200+. Police have implicated MS 13 in at least 11 murders in the Charlotte area in 2000 alone. Around the Washington DC area, local authorities estimate MS 13 membership to be between 8,000 and 10,000 members - by far the largest gang in the area. In July of 2003, the Washington DC area encountered three murders attributed to MS-13. The first was the murder of a federal informant. The second was the shooting death of a 17 year old boy. The third was the death of a 16 year old boy who had both of his hands completely chopped off.
Members is MS-13 cells are often initiated by being "jumped in". In one Washington DC event, witnessed by a reporter, the inductee was an 11-year old boy - he sought membership in MS-13 so they would protect him from bullies in his neighborhood. The rights of passage included placing the kid in a circle of gang members. The five strongest members stepped inside the circle with the 11-year old boy. As members began counting slowly to 13, 1..........2..... all the way to 13 the boy was beaten and kicked repeatedly until he reached the point of unconsciousness. If he had been a girl, the right to be in the gang could have been as much as rape. Also in order to join MS-13 you must first commit a violent act against someone else - either a beating, a rape, or a murder.
One of the biggest factors of MS-13 is their absolute intolerance for anyone who informs the police of their activities. Court papers in Nassau County detail recorded telephone conversations where a MS-13 member bragged how he had put a stop to a informant - "I put one in the chest and three in the head". Once you become a member of ms-13 , you are in for life.
The rules are you cannot act without the boss's consent - you cannot kill without reason, cannot talk to the police, cannot skip gang meetings, nor can you leave the gang. MS-13 has no tolerance for gang members who drop out. In March of 2004, 16-year old Edgar Guzman, was brought before the US Bureau of Immigration and Customers Enforcement in Colorado. He had entered the United States illegally, traveling from Guatemala on foot. In Guatemala he had been a member of the MS-13 gang. His sole reason for leaving his native country was to escape the gang life, live with his Aunt in Georgia, and begin school. He begged authorities not to deport him."If I had stayed in Guatemala, members of the Salvatrucha gang would have killed me". he said "I've seen them hit people with baseball bats and shoot them, I know how they kill people I know that if I go back to Guatemala they will torture me, They will kill me if I go back to Guatemala". He cried "please dont make me goback they will kill me because I left the gang".
On March 10, 2004, Edgar was released from jail and deported. On March 20, 2004, 10 days after he was deported, Edgar was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He had hidden in his home for 10 days and eventually left the confines of his house when his grandmother had unexpectedly died. He barely made it 5 blocks from his home before members found him and delivered the punishment that was deemed appropriate for his deserting the gang. Death is almost always the only means of escaping the clutches of MS-13.
Mexico's Parallel Power
The power of Mexican organized crime has dramatically increased this year, spreading its influence well beyond Mexico's borders. Now, elements from Central America's criminal underground have made de facto connections with at least two of Mexico's most notorious drug trafficking organizations, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel.
These connections indicate a new injection of strength and ruthlessness into Mexican organized crime. And even as organized criminal networks grew stronger this year, Mexico's presidential candidates avoided talking about it during their campaigns, which has led many analysts to wonder if security is a priority for Mexican politicians.
The Sinaloa and Gulf cartels fight for control of Nuevo Laredo, considered the most valuable smuggling route into the US from Mexico. While fighting for land on the border continues, another battleground along Mexico’s Pacific coast has become a center of violence. Now signs of former Guatemalan special forces troops and Central American gang members from the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) network have led many to conclude that Mexican organized crime has hired new muscle.
Mexico’s Deputy Attorney General for Organized Crime, José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, announced on 24 June that as many as 30 former members of the Guatemalan Special Forces, called “Kaibiles”, had begun working with the Zetas, a group of former Mexican military commandos that work as assassins for the Gulf Cartel.
Kaibiles are considered the most ruthless of all soldiers who were trained to fight insurgencies during the civil wars that ravaged Central America in the 1980s. Since the end of the war in Guatemala, Kaibiles have been used to train members of the Mexican special forces. Mexican authorities consider this connection to be the principle reason why rogue Kaibiles have sought out their former students, now members of the Zetas, for employment within Mexico’s criminal underworld.
This added force to the Gulf Cartel’s ranks of assassins indicates that the violence sustained by battling the Sinaloa Cartel has forced the organization to look beyond Mexico for highly trained killers.
Perhaps less professional but just as deadly are members of the MS-13 gang, a network that expands from cities in Central America, through Mexico, and into dozens of urban centers throughout the US. The MS-13 is known throughout the region as an extremely vicious street gang, reserving the most severe measures to discipline its own members. Recent violence in Mexico’s Pacific resort town, Acapulco, indicates that the MS-13 may have grown beyond street gang status, working now as muscle for the Sinaloa Cartel.
On 24 June, Mexican authorities found four bodies in Acapulco. One victim had been beheaded. They later announced that the bodies belonged to four local cops who had gone missing a week earlier. Bodies littered with bullets have become a weekly affair in Acapulco since the cartels have begun fighting over access to the Pacific to receive shipments of cocaine from South America.
What captured Mexican media attention, however, was the one body found without a head. Beheadings are not common in Mexico, and the change in tactics has led many to believe that the MS-13 gang may be behind some of the killings in Acapulco.
Deputy Attorney General Vasconcelos believes that MS-13 gang members have been employed by the Sinaloa Cartel. Yet the MS-13 is not known for beheadings, which has led Mexican media and others to speculate that Kaibiles are involved in the increase in violence in Acapulco. This argument would place Kaibiles fighting one another, which is not impossible, but still unlikely.
Two trends, however, are clear. First, Mexico’s warring cartels have begun to outsource their muscle to non-Mexican elements. Significant evidence has mounted indicating that the Kaibiles are indeed involved with the Gulf Cartel. And if the MS-13 is not currently involved, there is a good chance members of the MS-13 based in Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras soon will be. Second, and more importantly, the war is spreading beyond Mexico’s border zone.
Mexico’s national security plan, entitled “Safe Mexico,” was renamed “Operation Northern Border” to reflect changes in the territorial focus of Mexican security forces as Nuevo Laredo became harder to secure. But Mexico’s northern border with the US is only one battleground. Pacific ports, especially Acapulco, have recently seen a sharp increase in violence. Cancun, on the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, has also seen recent violence, as has the Mexican border with Guatemala. Most incidents have been drug related.
Meanwhile, Peruvian authorities on 15 June seized a one-tonne shipment of cocaine en route to the Mexican Pacific coast. Authorities in Peru and Mexico agree the shipment was the property of the Sinaloa Cartel. This seizure, and the seizure of over five tonnes of cocaine flown from the international airport in Caracas, Venezuela, were both destined for the Sinaloa Cartel. Undoubtedly the Gulf Cartel also has ties with criminal elements beyond Mexico that supply cocaine.
Both organizations, through their constant need for fresh supply, spread insecurity beyond Mexico’s border and port towns to other countries. Colombia is no longer the center of this problem. Increasingly, organized crime is gaining strength in Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia, and groups in all of these countries likely work directly or indirectly with the Sinaloa or Gulf Cartel. The drug trade has spread beyond the Andes. It is now a black market that blankets nearly all of the Americas.
The focal point of the implementation of security measures to dismantle a major element of this expansive drug trade lies within the Mexican government. But it is currently in limbo. When voters went to the polls on 2 July to elect Mexico’s next president, their decision was based on economics, not security. The lack of attention given to Mexico’s national security challenges during the presidential campaigns has been inexcusable.
Mexican politicians should be talking about how they will improve security in their country, but they know that if they do, death will come knocking. In Latin America’s other heavyweight country, Brazil, organized crime is considered a parallel power because many there accept that Brazilian politicians negotiate with organized crime to keep it contained. It is only a matter of time before the same consideration will be on the minds and mouths of all Mexicans, maybe even the new president himself.
Sam Logan (http://www.samuellogan.com) is an investigative journalist who has reported on security, energy, politics, economics, organized crime, terrorism, and black markets in Latin America since 1999. He is currently completing his work on "Nice Guys Die First," a forthcoming non-fiction narrative about organized crime in Brazil.
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These connections indicate a new injection of strength and ruthlessness into Mexican organized crime. And even as organized criminal networks grew stronger this year, Mexico's presidential candidates avoided talking about it during their campaigns, which has led many analysts to wonder if security is a priority for Mexican politicians.
The Sinaloa and Gulf cartels fight for control of Nuevo Laredo, considered the most valuable smuggling route into the US from Mexico. While fighting for land on the border continues, another battleground along Mexico’s Pacific coast has become a center of violence. Now signs of former Guatemalan special forces troops and Central American gang members from the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) network have led many to conclude that Mexican organized crime has hired new muscle.
Mexico’s Deputy Attorney General for Organized Crime, José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, announced on 24 June that as many as 30 former members of the Guatemalan Special Forces, called “Kaibiles”, had begun working with the Zetas, a group of former Mexican military commandos that work as assassins for the Gulf Cartel.
Kaibiles are considered the most ruthless of all soldiers who were trained to fight insurgencies during the civil wars that ravaged Central America in the 1980s. Since the end of the war in Guatemala, Kaibiles have been used to train members of the Mexican special forces. Mexican authorities consider this connection to be the principle reason why rogue Kaibiles have sought out their former students, now members of the Zetas, for employment within Mexico’s criminal underworld.
This added force to the Gulf Cartel’s ranks of assassins indicates that the violence sustained by battling the Sinaloa Cartel has forced the organization to look beyond Mexico for highly trained killers.
Perhaps less professional but just as deadly are members of the MS-13 gang, a network that expands from cities in Central America, through Mexico, and into dozens of urban centers throughout the US. The MS-13 is known throughout the region as an extremely vicious street gang, reserving the most severe measures to discipline its own members. Recent violence in Mexico’s Pacific resort town, Acapulco, indicates that the MS-13 may have grown beyond street gang status, working now as muscle for the Sinaloa Cartel.
On 24 June, Mexican authorities found four bodies in Acapulco. One victim had been beheaded. They later announced that the bodies belonged to four local cops who had gone missing a week earlier. Bodies littered with bullets have become a weekly affair in Acapulco since the cartels have begun fighting over access to the Pacific to receive shipments of cocaine from South America.
What captured Mexican media attention, however, was the one body found without a head. Beheadings are not common in Mexico, and the change in tactics has led many to believe that the MS-13 gang may be behind some of the killings in Acapulco.
Deputy Attorney General Vasconcelos believes that MS-13 gang members have been employed by the Sinaloa Cartel. Yet the MS-13 is not known for beheadings, which has led Mexican media and others to speculate that Kaibiles are involved in the increase in violence in Acapulco. This argument would place Kaibiles fighting one another, which is not impossible, but still unlikely.
Two trends, however, are clear. First, Mexico’s warring cartels have begun to outsource their muscle to non-Mexican elements. Significant evidence has mounted indicating that the Kaibiles are indeed involved with the Gulf Cartel. And if the MS-13 is not currently involved, there is a good chance members of the MS-13 based in Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras soon will be. Second, and more importantly, the war is spreading beyond Mexico’s border zone.
Mexico’s national security plan, entitled “Safe Mexico,” was renamed “Operation Northern Border” to reflect changes in the territorial focus of Mexican security forces as Nuevo Laredo became harder to secure. But Mexico’s northern border with the US is only one battleground. Pacific ports, especially Acapulco, have recently seen a sharp increase in violence. Cancun, on the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, has also seen recent violence, as has the Mexican border with Guatemala. Most incidents have been drug related.
Meanwhile, Peruvian authorities on 15 June seized a one-tonne shipment of cocaine en route to the Mexican Pacific coast. Authorities in Peru and Mexico agree the shipment was the property of the Sinaloa Cartel. This seizure, and the seizure of over five tonnes of cocaine flown from the international airport in Caracas, Venezuela, were both destined for the Sinaloa Cartel. Undoubtedly the Gulf Cartel also has ties with criminal elements beyond Mexico that supply cocaine.
Both organizations, through their constant need for fresh supply, spread insecurity beyond Mexico’s border and port towns to other countries. Colombia is no longer the center of this problem. Increasingly, organized crime is gaining strength in Venezuela, Peru, and Bolivia, and groups in all of these countries likely work directly or indirectly with the Sinaloa or Gulf Cartel. The drug trade has spread beyond the Andes. It is now a black market that blankets nearly all of the Americas.
The focal point of the implementation of security measures to dismantle a major element of this expansive drug trade lies within the Mexican government. But it is currently in limbo. When voters went to the polls on 2 July to elect Mexico’s next president, their decision was based on economics, not security. The lack of attention given to Mexico’s national security challenges during the presidential campaigns has been inexcusable.
Mexican politicians should be talking about how they will improve security in their country, but they know that if they do, death will come knocking. In Latin America’s other heavyweight country, Brazil, organized crime is considered a parallel power because many there accept that Brazilian politicians negotiate with organized crime to keep it contained. It is only a matter of time before the same consideration will be on the minds and mouths of all Mexicans, maybe even the new president himself.
Sam Logan (http://www.samuellogan.com) is an investigative journalist who has reported on security, energy, politics, economics, organized crime, terrorism, and black markets in Latin America since 1999. He is currently completing his work on "Nice Guys Die First," a forthcoming non-fiction narrative about organized crime in Brazil.
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FBI and Gang Problem
By Lance Winslow
Many American’s are getting quite tired of the purported PR campaign at the FBI. We find out that the “Slippery Tongue” in the Watergate scandal was an FBI Man? We find the FBI missing 1500 laptops. We find FBI personnel charging department and agency credit cards for personal use. We find out about the Chinese sex scandal and the FBI Agent? We find the FBI lying under oath at the Martha Stewart trial in order to get a conviction? We find the FBI screwed up during 9-11 ditching evidence of International Terrorists learning to fly but not wanting to learn how to land. We will not go into Cherry Ridge or Waco?
Now the FBI announces a coordinated law effort in a Press Release to 7800 news agencies about how they will be going after MS-13? So far they have already given us Press Releases that in the last six months they have arrested 1200 plus MS-13 gang members. But they do not tell us that the gang is recruiting 50 new people per day and in over 30 states now? What is 50 times 182 and one half days? It is nine thousand one hundred and twenty-five (9125) new gang members since they started? So the FBI is losing, but continues to promote their public relations campaign. Face it the government cannot protect us from terrorism, from gangs or from Mother Nature as recently seen. It is all a lie and purported marketing hooey.
The FBI’s latest press release claims:
“The FBI today announced a coordinated, five-nation law enforcement effort between local, state, federal, and international agencies to act against the growing violence from gang activity, particularly MS-13, in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. All in all, today's actions included the participation of more than 6,400 police officers, federal agents, or other officials, operating in 13 states and five countries.”
How much is that going to cost us taxpayers? Many believe that the MS-13 gang has helped Al Qaeda operatives enter our country with WMD. The MS-13 was estimated to have over 10,000 members a year ago. Today the estimate is guess what; yep, still 10,000? What kind of math is that? They are recruiting daily new members and our borders leak like the Levees in New Orleans? The FBI announces to the world that they are after them? May as well tell them in advance? The FBI announces working with all these different countries, many of which are completely infiltrated by MS-13 and they think this will help their efforts? Please spare me the BS? If the FBI was a business then the FTC would shut them down for false and misleading advertising and misrepresentation. In fact if the FTC would take a look at their abuses in misrepresentation, they would shut themselves down? There is no justice in the United States, that is a complete fabrication. The United States Government cannot protect its people; that is a lie. What a house of cards, I thought the Federal Government’s number one job was to protect the American people? Why not protect us from the sewage and minutia coming from the Justice Department? Truth, Justice and the American Way my rear end; stop lying to the American people, come clean and walk your own talk. Let’s face it MS-13 is kicking your butts. The FBI says that their ultimate goal is to dismantle MS-13; great goal, but from where I stand you are too busy counting toilet tissues, filling out forms, holding press releases and standing around the coffee machine to make much of a dent in the gangs in this nation? Think on it. (This article is my opinion from much research and observation of the Justice Department).
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Now the FBI announces a coordinated law effort in a Press Release to 7800 news agencies about how they will be going after MS-13? So far they have already given us Press Releases that in the last six months they have arrested 1200 plus MS-13 gang members. But they do not tell us that the gang is recruiting 50 new people per day and in over 30 states now? What is 50 times 182 and one half days? It is nine thousand one hundred and twenty-five (9125) new gang members since they started? So the FBI is losing, but continues to promote their public relations campaign. Face it the government cannot protect us from terrorism, from gangs or from Mother Nature as recently seen. It is all a lie and purported marketing hooey.
The FBI’s latest press release claims:
“The FBI today announced a coordinated, five-nation law enforcement effort between local, state, federal, and international agencies to act against the growing violence from gang activity, particularly MS-13, in the United States, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. All in all, today's actions included the participation of more than 6,400 police officers, federal agents, or other officials, operating in 13 states and five countries.”
How much is that going to cost us taxpayers? Many believe that the MS-13 gang has helped Al Qaeda operatives enter our country with WMD. The MS-13 was estimated to have over 10,000 members a year ago. Today the estimate is guess what; yep, still 10,000? What kind of math is that? They are recruiting daily new members and our borders leak like the Levees in New Orleans? The FBI announces to the world that they are after them? May as well tell them in advance? The FBI announces working with all these different countries, many of which are completely infiltrated by MS-13 and they think this will help their efforts? Please spare me the BS? If the FBI was a business then the FTC would shut them down for false and misleading advertising and misrepresentation. In fact if the FTC would take a look at their abuses in misrepresentation, they would shut themselves down? There is no justice in the United States, that is a complete fabrication. The United States Government cannot protect its people; that is a lie. What a house of cards, I thought the Federal Government’s number one job was to protect the American people? Why not protect us from the sewage and minutia coming from the Justice Department? Truth, Justice and the American Way my rear end; stop lying to the American people, come clean and walk your own talk. Let’s face it MS-13 is kicking your butts. The FBI says that their ultimate goal is to dismantle MS-13; great goal, but from where I stand you are too busy counting toilet tissues, filling out forms, holding press releases and standing around the coffee machine to make much of a dent in the gangs in this nation? Think on it. (This article is my opinion from much research and observation of the Justice Department).
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Mexican Catholics Forgotten By Lance Winslow
ms 13 gang member is catholic
Many Mexican and Latin Catholics are dismayed that the Cardinals picked a German Pope, Benedict XVI, over a Latin Pope. Latin and Mexican Catholics are some of the biggest supporters of the Catholic Church. Some Mexican, Latino and Hispanic Catholics are saying; “This just proves white men still run the world.” Many Mexicans who have proud Indian Aztec and Mayan Heritage whose civilization was destroyed by European Explorers and conquerors, which brought this religion with them are thinking twice about their loyalty to the Catholic Church.
One Mexican gentleman, ‘Jesus Gonzales’ we interviewed in Los Angeles came over the border recently looking for a job so he could send money back to his family in Mexico. He said he came with nothing and then joined the gang MS-13, because he can make more money to send home to his family. He sometimes worries about the risks of being in a gang, but his mom prays the Rosary for him to be safe. He says she is a strong Catholic, but he no longer wishes to go to church because the Catholic Church now has a German Pope and not a Latin Pope. He knows that when he sends money back to his mom that at least 10% goes to the church maybe more. He wishes she would not give the money to the church, but knows that his family has been strong Catholics for at least 100 years. “Besides, she does pray for me, so I do not get into any trouble with the law or hurt, I know she appreciates the money I send back to Mexico” he said.
Jesus also said; “The new Pope looks old, so maybe he will not live that long and then we can get a real Latino Pope.” He also said he is happy to live in America and can earn two to three thousand dollars per week with the gang instead of working in the fields stating; “there is a lot of work in Los Angeles to do,” but he is thinking on moving to another big city soon and moving up in the group, but first he must prove himself in the gang as well as his loyalty and toughness. He thinks eventually he may get back with the church when a new Latin Pope is appointed otherwise he and his friends are not going to go back.
Jesus said he likes the old Pope; “He seemed like a nice guy, but he was always slobbering and you could not tell what he was saying anyway.” My mother cried when she found out he died, she said he was one of the best Popes to ever live. “I do not know why my mother still goes to church now, but I am glad she prays for me, I think it helps” he says.
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One Mexican gentleman, ‘Jesus Gonzales’ we interviewed in Los Angeles came over the border recently looking for a job so he could send money back to his family in Mexico. He said he came with nothing and then joined the gang MS-13, because he can make more money to send home to his family. He sometimes worries about the risks of being in a gang, but his mom prays the Rosary for him to be safe. He says she is a strong Catholic, but he no longer wishes to go to church because the Catholic Church now has a German Pope and not a Latin Pope. He knows that when he sends money back to his mom that at least 10% goes to the church maybe more. He wishes she would not give the money to the church, but knows that his family has been strong Catholics for at least 100 years. “Besides, she does pray for me, so I do not get into any trouble with the law or hurt, I know she appreciates the money I send back to Mexico” he said.
Jesus also said; “The new Pope looks old, so maybe he will not live that long and then we can get a real Latino Pope.” He also said he is happy to live in America and can earn two to three thousand dollars per week with the gang instead of working in the fields stating; “there is a lot of work in Los Angeles to do,” but he is thinking on moving to another big city soon and moving up in the group, but first he must prove himself in the gang as well as his loyalty and toughness. He thinks eventually he may get back with the church when a new Latin Pope is appointed otherwise he and his friends are not going to go back.
Jesus said he likes the old Pope; “He seemed like a nice guy, but he was always slobbering and you could not tell what he was saying anyway.” My mother cried when she found out he died, she said he was one of the best Popes to ever live. “I do not know why my mother still goes to church now, but I am glad she prays for me, I think it helps” he says.
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