Las Maras Centroamericanas: ¿Víctimas o Victimarios?

Abstract

Latin America currently faces a number of phenomena linked to the violence. In the Centro America case, this place has been the scene of violence, which has permeated the economic, political and social structures. In mid-1970, under a sense of identity and belonging, through migratory flows, it begins to develop a social phenomenon known as maras, today, this phenomenon is increasing.

Maras are a problem which has overtaken the governments involved; apparently don’t have programs to combat the phenomenon from a more human perspective and a social responsibility character. It faces a violent phenomenon, with a youth structure, which poses a dilemma: on one side is the application of the law, without minimizing the problem and that has led to extreme situations. In contrast, the speech on Human Rights shows that the marero before being criminal is a human (aspect exposed in academic studies) if the maras have that identity, is due to the absence of alternative livelihoods