18th Street gang

Ms. Fajardo Rivas fled Honduras with her young daughter after her husband was kidnapped and likely murdered.

Seems that a local part of the 18th Street Gang did it because the husband's brother vocally opposed the gang.

The brother was brutally murdered by the gang a month later.

not worth asylum to the immigration judge and the BIA, and the BIA refused to reopen even when Ms. Fajardo-Rivas received death threats from the suspected killers post-BIA final order.

The BIA affirmed, as I mentioned, but then there was the motion to reopen.

Quote, providing copies of two threatening notes, a police report, and sworn affidavits, Ms. Fajardo-Rivas told the BIA that members of the gang promised to kill her and her daughter if they returned to Honduras.

The notes delivered to Ms. Fajardo-Rivas' mother in Honduras labeled Ms. Fajardo-Rivas a snitch and an apparent reference to her choice to report the husband's abduction to the police and point her finger at the 18th Street Gang, end quote.

And the mother recognized the tattoos on the faces of those who delivered the notes as 18th Street Gang tattoos.

I mean, he did run Guatemala's tax authority and in more recent years, he developed a social media presence and he was forcefully denouncing corruption.

Earlier this year, he spoke about He basically revealed on social media that leaders of the Barrio 18 or 18th Street Gang, some of whom he helped put in prison, had secretly escaped prison.

And he accused certain government officials of colluding in that.

And then later in recent weeks, as you mentioned, there was the string of eight murders in Huite, in Zacapa, in rural Guatemala.

The other metric that Bukele would go on to tout in future campaigns was that while he was in office, Nuevo Cuscatlán only saw a single homicide.

While the exact number was disputed, the exceptionally low homicide rate was a major point of pride, as the country has been fighting the violent and entrenched MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs since the end of its civil war in 1992.

It's been an uphill battle against the hyper-violent and incredibly cruel gangs since Bukele was a teenager, so no matter how relatively safe the small town was to begin with, in a country with a legacy of gang violence, such a safety record was as much an accomplishment as education for the young mayor.

The other successes of Bukele's office were more tangible.

La tormenta tropical Rachel dejó diez personas no localizadas en Ensenada y San Felipe, así como una menor de edad sin vida en Baja California.

Las autoridades detuvieron en Tabasco a Óscar Ariel N., alias El Cabra, identificado como uno de los líderes de la organización criminal Mara18 en El Salvador.

Es investigado por su presunta participación en al menos quince homicidios.

La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum criticó la actuación de las autoridades durante la Marcha por el agua en Jalisco y pidió al gobernador Pablo Lemus explicar lo ocurrido.

MS-13 was on a lot of states also.

Now, the second-biggest gang is the 18th Street Gang, also known as Barrio 18 in Los Angeles, and they have 50,000 members.

Mm-hmm.

The Latin Kings, another group, but this one's out of Chicago and spread all over, they got 35,000 members.

launching the Jim Bakker Show in 2003, telling the AP about it the year before.

One of my co-hosts is from the 18th Street Gang in Los Angeles.

And young people, we have children.

It's reality television in a way.