Abstract

PRADO PEREZ, Ruth Elizabeth. Web of Violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle and the Maras. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2018, vol.33, n.93, pp.213-246. ISSN 2007-8358.

This article deals with the web of different kinds of violence that make Central America’s Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) one of the world’s most violent regions. Its basic premise is that the violent climate is a social phenomenon produced and reproduced through social practices and centers on the different violences associated with the Maras, both in their role as perpetrators and as victims, in the context in which the state is also a source of criminal violence. The aim is to contribute the elements needed to reflect on the conditions that have contributed to normalizing this phenomenon and that seem to perpetuate it in the region.

Keywords : criminal violence; structural violence; symbolic violence; Maras; homicide rates.