Honduras, Trump and the Gangs
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A journalist documents the brutality of MS-13 in Honduras, born in LA and now causing a new exodus towards the US border.
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From one of Honduras’ most violent neighbourhoods, Fernando Lucena documents first-hand the brutality of MS-13. The infamously savage gang was born and bred in the streets of Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s, founded by refugees from Central American wars — wars that were themselves promoted and financed by the US. Today, tides of horrific violence generated by the deportations of these gang members to Central American countries - their "home countries" according to Trump – lies behind the massive exodus of migrants hoping to escape the plague of bloodshed.
"Directed by journalist and producer Fernando Lucena (who has done several in-depth reports for Vice News), 'Honduras, Trump and The Gangs' is an incredibly revealing documentary about how the Trump administration's immigration policy affects, first, Central America (the marginalized areas of Honduras in particular) with the deportation of violent criminal organizations like MS-13 or Mara Salvatrucha which, ironically, was formed in Los Angeles by Latin migrants fleeing violence in their countries, in the context of the Cold War and US intervention in the Central American region. Secondly, in a new paradox, the violence of the gangs in Honduras is causing a new exodus towards the Mexico-US border, a demonstration of the obligatory symbiosis between the US and Latin America and the limited foreign policy of the Trump government. With journalistic rigor, the images are brutal and hard to watch, but necessary to understand the migration crisis on the continent."