How The MS-13 Gang Actually Works | How Crime Works

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Alex Sanchez is a former high-ranking member of MS-13. He became involved in the gang in the 1980s in Los Angeles and participated in its expansion.
Sanchez was deported to El Salvador in 1994 along with 4,000 other Salvadorans. There, he began to recruit young members into the gang. He was involved in robberies, street fights, and carjackings, and he survived being shot four times. Sanchez decided to leave MS-13 in the mid-1990s. He is now the executive director of Homies Unidos and is a violence-prevention worker and expert on gang culture.
He speaks with Business Insider about the Los Angeles Police Department, tattooing, rules and codes, media perception, and the political language used to depict the gang, such as Donald Trump's comments in 2018. Sanchez's story is profiled in the books "MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang" and "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas."
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00:00 - Intro
00:23 - The Initiation
01:48 - The Weapons
03:19 - The Tattoos
04:19 - The Rivals
05:58 - The Rules
07:25 - The Culture
08:46 - Return to El Salvador
10:20 - Death Threats
12:55 - The Hierarchy
13:54 - Megajails
16:17 - The Expansion
17:33 - LAPD
20:18 - The Future of MS-13
21:54 - The Aftermath
24:19 - Credits
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@brocode5984 4 ай бұрын

The fact that I was watching your videos the other day and I said to myself “I wish they could interview someone from MS-13” and boom you uploaded one today 🤯

@aaabbbccc1939 4 ай бұрын

I kinda hope they do an MS-13 interview from a an anti-gang taskforce. This guy has something deeply wrong with him.

@smakdon9866 4 ай бұрын

Frequency illusion.. aka Baader-Meinhof phenomenon...

@amh9494 4 ай бұрын

@@smakdon9866 nar, he's the chosen one.

@Insider 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@tobysemler 3 ай бұрын

@@amh9494 Mind=BLOWN!

@naromngin 4 ай бұрын

i liked how they censored the eyes thinking nobody would recognize the full tattooed face

@bigboi1004 4 ай бұрын

Nah that could be anyone's 7-Eleven tattoo (3:57)

@popbigdaddy9422 4 ай бұрын

It’s for legal reasons

@allhailzamasu69 4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it

@localmilfchaser6938 4 ай бұрын

@@bigboi1004😂😂😂

@mrsenpaihd7485 4 ай бұрын

That wasn't a censorship though. It was literally a huge block of tattoo. Open eyes plis

@Shawnmell 4 ай бұрын

Dude has such a friendly voice and demeanor for someone with such a hardened past

@rahsunallah2825 4 ай бұрын

My parole officer says the same about me.

@tracyminajjjj 4 ай бұрын

These are the men you should fear the most 💯

@ashvio 4 ай бұрын

Goes to show most gang members are just regular people who are put in bad environments

@michaelchallis4129 4 ай бұрын

Were you expecting him to be stabbing the video director?

@Shawnmell 4 ай бұрын

@@michaelchallis4129 dude has such a irrational hostility and anger for someone with such a desire to reply to a random friendly comment

@Doodlebob563 4 ай бұрын

I got involved pretty heavy with MS Paint

@efrainsanchez6788 4 ай бұрын

Damn. I already know you’re dangerous. 😮

@10secondsrule 4 ай бұрын

It almost killed me.

@ahmedp8009 4 ай бұрын

lol well played (or painted in this case)!

@DeezyP 4 ай бұрын

Haha this made me laugh much harder than it should have 😂 🤣

@azynkron 4 ай бұрын

Once you get hooked by those pixels, man.. It's difficult to get out.

@CestSam 4 ай бұрын

El Salvador's murder rate when Bukele took over was 50.5, it's now 1.5 per 100k. It's working.

@trhtkify 4 ай бұрын

W bukele , L ms13 and this bozo in the video, should have gotten locked up for life for attempted murder

@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf 4 ай бұрын

These geniuses tattooed their gang affiliation to their face, pretty easy to catch them all.

@milosummers2779 4 ай бұрын

it’s working but it’s also imprisoning a lot of innocent people without trial, and as long as you miss one or two gang members then the gang can keep recruiting. it’s not sustainable and it’s a human rights violation. stop praising it

@ImCaveJohnson 4 ай бұрын

Bukele is a hero!

@memeteam2016 4 ай бұрын

These people always cry about govt cracking down on their crimes because all their friends who are still criminals are gonna get caught up in it lol

@eddiegreencheez 4 ай бұрын

Spinoff series about the real danger they can face simply for doing these videos

@FacitOmniaVoluntas. 4 ай бұрын

You gotta be the dullest knife in the drawer to think they’re talking about anything that could get them in trouble. Everything they’re saying is already public knowledge.

@SEAZNDragon 4 ай бұрын

Michael Franzese is an ex-mobster who talks a lot about mob culture on KZfaq. I saw a comment on one of his videos wondering how he’s able to talk so much and not get killed. Someone replied that a lot of the people Michael talked about were either killed or serving life sentences. The current mob is also not as strong as it used to be and it’s unlikely any of its current members know him personally. It also helps while Michael names drops he never says who does what crime. In a way it’s the same for these Insider crime videos. Most of the people who come on left their gang long ago and talk structure but don’t name names.

@user-vy3tt8eb6t 4 ай бұрын

@@FacitOmniaVoluntas.Ttty

@capellozapellini6074 4 ай бұрын

Most of this info can be found elsewhere + most of them already fear for their lives if they left that life

@garyhost354 4 ай бұрын

He still in the game. Gangs have pr wings now

@DEonaraR 4 ай бұрын

MS 13 was born in California and came to El Salvador, not the other way around. Important fact!!!!

@EdgarFermin-sd6jq 2 ай бұрын

Yup it happen due to the fact that most of them where getting deported back home after crimes or etc

@satevo462 Ай бұрын

American gang culture has been exported throughout the world through deportations and rap culture.

@theworldisimmense Ай бұрын

@SilveronJolque hablas idiots , doce la verdad

@1234-bh2su Ай бұрын

@SilveronJoleveryone knows ms started in California

@socialex Ай бұрын

@@1234-bh2suI didn't

@rowanjones1435 4 ай бұрын

MS13 is a notoriously brutal gang. I'm curious about how they feel (and the other gangs mentioned in this series) regarding an old member coming on and talking about the gang in such close detail. If it were me I wouldn't take my chances, but this man is clearly confident enough to appear on a popular show.

@user-bm6xz6pq5z 4 ай бұрын

When you've seen as much stuff as that man you aren't afraid of violence. My neighborhood gets shootings weekly but kids aren't afraid to go play outside.

@_Verde 4 ай бұрын

I think the vast majority of these people that come on here talk about things that aren't necessarily already known, but is public knowledge to anyone who's already interested in studying organized crime.

@teresafan1 4 ай бұрын

⁠@@_Verdethats what I was thinking too! I related it to true crime you tubers, all of the information in their videos is just based on whatever research and googling they have done. So no one can come after them for talking about anything because its public knowledge for anyone who cares to find it.

@admiralron 4 ай бұрын

Probably helps when you've been out of the gang for over thirty years lol

@elcomandante901 4 ай бұрын

It’s frowned upon. I assure you .

@ryanoak4736 4 ай бұрын

The murder rate in El Salvador has plummeted since mass incarceration, but it will be interesting to see how that unfolds.

@Zzyzzyzzs 4 ай бұрын

Obviously it'll drop massively in the short term when you round up everyone currently involved and remove them, but if you then do nothing to solve the _reasons_ why people find joining gangs appealing (a way out of poverty, protecting themselves from crime and corrupt cops/politicians, the threats from drug cartels where you either join or they kill you) then nothing is going to stop new recruitment from happening and rates rising again. I'm not saying Bukele/El Salvador _isn't_ doing that; honestly El Salvador isn't a country I or many people think about very much. But the reason it isn't working in the USA is precisely because of the above. You have a culture that scapegoats immigrants, constantly tells Americans they're all criminals and inferior beings and mismanages the economy, giving people fewer pathways to a legitimate presence, then lock them up when they turn to crime and leave it to NGOs and underfunded departments to handle their rehabilitation, if any (easier to just deport them or have them rot in prison forever). At no point is the humanity of the person trapped in that cycle recognised, and the same is arguably true of mass incarceration anywhere. The tack currently is to just remove people from society, with no thought given to whether or not they might change or what situations landed them there in the first place. The US is the biggest economy in the region; the equivalent wealth of a single Elon Musk or even a Donald Trump could wipe out all the reasons the Americas are ensnared in gang crime and poverty overnight. But such solutions are harder to implement so few people are willing to do them and see them through. So yeah, lock them up if the immediate priority is to reduce the murder rate and restore some safety, but if you don't do anything long-term it'll be pointless.

@amh9494 4 ай бұрын

Definitely shows bleeding heart bull doesn't work as well as harsh justice, they have a chance to break the cycle now.

@christinet6336 4 ай бұрын

Yes… that’s the key. Eventually, someone else is going to get into office and it’s quite possible that they can be bribed by the cartels to go a different route. It’s going to be very interesting to see how the unfolds, indeed.

@samuelmorgan6987 4 ай бұрын

@@amh9494 putting people in jail doesnt make them cease to exist. you think they're just gonna go away? you think they'll never get out? guards will never be able to be bribed or threatened? use your brain

@MrNommerz 4 ай бұрын

@@amh9494 Thing is they have to come up with productive solutions afterwards or more people will fall into the same gang cycle anyways, or even more likely IMO is the police will become the new gangs and the government will slide into a dictatorial police state and then who knows what problems will come up after that. Still, I hope the best for them and that they are able to parry their current situation into lasting prosperity.

@BelovedMilord 2 ай бұрын

MS-13 has a ridiculously high presence in VA & MD. Hearing these origin stories makes it even more crazy

@GwynneDear Ай бұрын

I grew up in Manassas, Va and I remember a girl from my hometown who was found killed with a machete by MS-13.

@kil7016 Ай бұрын

yup used to be big specifically in Alexandria, then most relocated to mannassas and centerville

@GwynneDear Ай бұрын

@@kil7016 Centerville has the best Korean food now. It’s wild! It’s like a Korea town in the burbs of DC.

@err0r0b0 23 күн бұрын

ikr? was with a crew that blew apart someone in the woods. didnt ask what for.

@yoominji. 4 ай бұрын

8:35 I will never get over the hilarious irony of gang members committing the awful crimes they do while at the same time being covered in religious regalia.

@laincake 4 ай бұрын

exactly!!

@Leith_Crowther 4 ай бұрын

What’s ironic about that?

@penguin350 3 ай бұрын

Same as the religious rapists at the Vatican I guess

@dannydanumba2619 3 ай бұрын

@@Leith_Crowtherthey commit violent crimes and every sin in the book but still think they can call themselves “Christians”

@spanishcastle7 3 ай бұрын

Hitler slaughtered more than 6 million Jews under the guise of religion. Is that funny to you?

@Alphadestrious 4 ай бұрын

Just came back from El Salvador, its pretty safe than before. Was able to actually go to lake ilopango and los chorros de la calera, which was always a no-go zone. I would have been killed if the maras "gangs" were still there. So mass incarceration has worked. The stories I hear that the gangs did, they totally deserve life in prison. the country is poor, but on the up and up, and tourism is better than ever.

@jepulis6674 4 ай бұрын

Better yes but I hate fools thinking its perfect. That kind of power leads into all opposition getting locked up and killed in prison. Only a transition phase and acceptable but at that region its another loony dictator doing the same the gangs did. Give it 5 years.

@handsomejerk 4 ай бұрын

Ahhhhh. Mass sweeps of people held without due process is good? You want your government to hold you without trial? You want a life sentence because your cousin is in a gang? I guess human rights aren’t your thing then.

@willpatterson7125 4 ай бұрын

It's so funny they tried to say that mass incarceration doesn't work when El Salvador went from having the highest murder rate in the western hemisphere to now the second lowest (only canada has a lower rate.) The evidence is right in front of us.

@Anthony-dk7de 4 ай бұрын

🎉

@kameronjones7139 4 ай бұрын

Short-term yes but if the other problems aren't fixed then it will happen again

@hheellfire 4 ай бұрын

I think this dude still fosters some deep down loyalty for his gang. He should not be saying they don't rape and kill because they do.

@efrainsanchez6788 4 ай бұрын

Likely for his own safety. You think gang members won’t see this video?

@3asianassassin 4 ай бұрын

they arent seeing this video, theyre in prisons and wont ever see the sun again if theres any justice in this world

@cruisinguy6024 4 ай бұрын

I’ve heard that the gang was originally a lot different from what it is now in terms of brutality.

@AshBuddha 4 ай бұрын

Probably also some cognitive dissonance. We know what they do, I’m sure he does as well.

@user-fh4nw6ct9y 4 ай бұрын

Psyop

@zero213kt 4 ай бұрын

It's crazy. Growing up around the Koreatown and Pico-Union area, you see the gang members walking around or hanging around the neighborhood. It will be quiet at times but they always pop up again. Seeing these young kids trying to be the next generation, it's just sad

@darthandeddeu 4 ай бұрын

Happens in all cuturalist gangs. ( Mafia , bikers, street gangs, etc )

@whathell6t 4 ай бұрын

The irony is that the presence of those gangs can contain the homeless transient and vagrants, especially the ones with severe mental-illness.

@beccaf262 4 ай бұрын

Happens with the gangs here in NZ too.

@amh9494 4 ай бұрын

@@darthandeddeu some more than others. 😏

@borntoclimb7116 4 ай бұрын

@@darthandeddeu correct

@BigSwagThaLionTamer 4 ай бұрын

As at least one other guy mentioned, MS13 has a heavy presence in Northern VA and they're notorious for trafficking and violence right off the 95 corridor

@jamesflannigan1521 2 ай бұрын

He's wrong about the mass incarcerations in El Salvador. I live in Nicaragua, a neighboring country, and every single Salvadorean I have spoken with is in favor of what Bukele has done. They are all happy that they can finally go out at night and not worry about getting killed or robbed. And business owners are happy that they are no longer being extorted by these gangs.

@oswaldofuentes8625 4 ай бұрын

I disagree with some of the statements; El Salvador has never seen this dramatic, possitive turn ever.

@kogn5338 3 ай бұрын

it was definitely necessary and a good first step but i think hes right in asking about the exit strategy. they need to pivot towards building the economy and solving the problems that cuased the gangs in the first place. otherwise it is just a never ending cycle. obviously that generation of criminals is not going to be saved but they need to think abt the future, rehibilitation and a transition out of the police state.

@regina4376 2 ай бұрын

Positive turn with human rights violations happening every day at the hands of the government but I guess since they’re racialized, marginalized people it doesn’t matter right?

@gracianshehu8256 Ай бұрын

@@regina4376would you care about human rights, if you were to save the world from hitler for example

@89turbomk3 Ай бұрын

What are you talking about? do you see how much the crime rate has reduced ever since President taken harsh actions

@Catherinetatethefkingliberty Ай бұрын

Ignore the western liberal type. They will fight hard for rapists and murderers at the expense of innocent people. @89turbomk3

@michele2716 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this interview and for others like it. We need to learn from each other and work together to overcome these global challenges or things will continue to get harder, esp for the folks without tons of money and power. Wishing this guy and his family the best. To have gone through such things and make it through, fighting now to do good, that's amazing. For myself, i used to fight for good but I've gotten tired and lazy. If we all combine what stengths we have, we can, with those numbers, change things for the better.

@charliee5970 4 ай бұрын

14:47 Bro what? How are you gonna say that? El Salvadors murder rate has dropped ASTOUDINGLY since mass incarcerating gang members

@trhtkify 4 ай бұрын

this dude is a bozo that got lucky they let him out of jail, should have been there for life for attempted murder, bukele should lock him up too

@charliee5970 4 ай бұрын

@@trhtkify For real, dude is an idiot.

@user-fh4nw6ct9y 4 ай бұрын

This is what gaslighting the public looks like.

@CalaTec 4 ай бұрын

I won't put bad intention on his words, but he speaks as a person who lives in the USA and not in el Salvador. You have to ask people living there and how their lives have changed.

@revlo1557 4 ай бұрын

Spot on!

@42Oregon 4 ай бұрын

As a Salvadoran I really appreciate this video. I've visited once back in 2008 and I can't wait to visit again. Peace and love cuz.

@alyssa01825 4 ай бұрын

my family and i just visited last week. the country felt extremely safe and bukele has done so much good to the country. i’m salvadorean too it was so nice to go back and feel safe😊 i recommend you to visit

@Insider 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@prayalways 4 ай бұрын

These episodes have been spectacular ❤

@neal.karn-jones 4 ай бұрын

My friend's brother was m-rdered by MS for not joining and he told me one of the problems is that when immigrants come here most stay in the same community they left but just here in the US. They think it makes things easier, but it also makes it easy for MS to keep the stranglehold they have on the community. They can get to you here or back where they came from so an immigrant may leave a bad situation and end up in another bad situation where those immigrant children face the terrible, and very real, choice of being a victim or joining MS. Like my friend's brother did in Hempstead, Long Island NY. I don't have a solution but one thing you can do is let immigrants know that it may seem easy for them to live in an immigrant neighborhood but they might be safer in a more integrated one and explain why. Especially for the safety and future of their children. This is not some far away place, this is here and we need to deal with it and stop making these gangs stronger.

@Princess-im3wm 4 ай бұрын

There are material reasons why people join gangs. IMO if you want to stop gang violence, address those reasons (money, lack of family, lack of sense of belonging, etc) first

@neal.karn-jones 4 ай бұрын

That's true but I am specifically talking about MS-13 and how it gets new members by giving immigrant children the choice to join or die. Lack of money, family, or belonging are minor compared to the choice of being murdered or joining.@@Princess-im3wm

@rodtack8420 4 ай бұрын

@@Princess-im3wm There in lies the problem. Those that run the west WANT poverty so that the people that grow up in poverty are poor and controllable. It is all by design from the top down by the elites that run the west. These groups profit off of the suffering of the people who they see as nothing more then slaves or a resource. Problem - Reaction - Solution. The biggest irony is those that joins these gangs are serving the very people who are responsible for their misfortune to begin with and don't know it. Not much different then how Intelligence run state funded terrorist groups work and are used by the same ruling class. It is the same dynamic.

@leok7193 4 ай бұрын

I'm a 1st gen immigrant. There are lots of reasons people stay in their cultural communities: 1: language - moving to a new country a lot of people don't speak English enough to just go about daily lives. Whether it's shopping, making friends, looking for work, entertainment, food - language can be a huge barrier 2: cost of living - most people coming to the US, don't have lucrative work opportunities or large savings. Immigrant communities are often cheaper to live in, because they're usually less desirable and affluent 3: community/culture - people with shared experiences and views just get along better. Whether it's common hobbies, ethnic cuisine, religion, etc - it is the things that we miss or still want in our lives that are often not available in a different area 4: family - most people coming here already have some family connection and want to be here for that reason, and for above reasons family is usually already living in an immigrant community. I'm sure there are more, but those are the biggest that come to mind. Sadly, that also means that whatever people experienced in their home country, often comes with them to the new, whether it's emphasis on education or violence or corruption...

@neal.karn-jones 4 ай бұрын

I understand all the good reasons to stay in an immigrant community. I'm just pointing out a danger - losing your child to MS-13. If that's not a good reason to avoid it I don't know what is - and the danger is extremely real if you have a child about to be a teen or in their teens.@@leok7193

@Diabbie 4 ай бұрын

This guy is essentially doing PR work for MS-13 lol

@SoulSonder26 4 ай бұрын

"What I'm doing now is trying to give back to the community that I used to take." No, dude, he's not. You just can only see him that way.

@aaabbbccc1939 4 ай бұрын

@@SoulSonder26He's giving back to the community by trying to get gang members out of the successful prison policy. He's also willing to lie and paint MS-13 in a positive light so dumb sheltered kids think they are not that bad. He doesn't care about the community, he cares about MS13.

@SpartanArmy117 4 ай бұрын

Yeah I hate to say it but he pretty much is. Basically he's saying you just lack context, that's why you don't like MS 13 lol. Also I'm sure he's being "targeted" because he has a tiny insignificant activist group and not because he's involved in some shady stuff.

@jukeburtis7503 4 ай бұрын

@@SpartanArmy117isn’t context for gangs and criminals the point Of these videos? I mean he’s not “doing PR” in the sense the previous commenter said. It sounds like he’s just telling his story so people can understand it.

@MasteredMagic 4 ай бұрын

I agree. I stopped listening when he said that the gang was “vulnerable “… you know who is vulnerable? The women and children the gang exploits. MS isn’t a Boy Scout troop. They aren’t just innocent do-gooder immigrants… the people on these gangs chose a lifestyle like this. Even if you can’t live by their motto, because you can’t r4p3 people, doesn’t mean the rest of their goals aren’t involved in the motto. I’m glad that dude is exposing police corruption, but to pretend like MS isn’t a group of criminals, who harm and exploit others, is just plain wrong.

@LBfrom1900 4 ай бұрын

Learned a lot!

@conradoabreu2984 4 ай бұрын

He’s very well spoken but he is definitely biased in favor of the gang and everything bukele is doing to gain control of El Salvador

@christinet6336 4 ай бұрын

Wow… that was really good and informative. Thank you.

@alexscoggins8066 4 ай бұрын

[Enlightening & insightful.]

@unnaturalselection8330 4 ай бұрын

This Guy:"Putting us in jail doesn't work" El Salvador:"Lowest murder rate on the continent." This Guy:"...Well, putting us in jail hurts our feelings really bad."

@Ronnyking98 4 ай бұрын

I use to work with a guy who was part of ms13 OG but the things like this guy said and the OG told me damnnn…..

@KINGBUCK360 4 ай бұрын

I❤this channel, every video is a history lesson on what really goes on in other places in the world

@Maspanget07 4 ай бұрын

Proud and commend you for sharing your life

@garyfrombrooklyn 20 күн бұрын

I want to hear from a former T Mobile employee on the next clip. “My name is xxxxxxx and I’m a former billing rep for T Mobile, and this is how crime works.”

@stonerguitarist4690 4 ай бұрын

Respect sir I changed my life going through the same thing

@kommunitykonnected 4 ай бұрын

Now you gotta interview a Death Squad member

@leok7193 4 ай бұрын

Buddy's delusional. He casually brushes over violence he participated in across multiple countries and with multiple convictions, but when people try to restore some semblance of civil society, whether in El Salvador or the US, he's the one being persecuted....

@Charles-Darwin 4 ай бұрын

What's wild is you thinking you've figured it out, but what you should have experienced was a reality check. If you give it some thought, soldiers, police, trump have all done the same activities and seem to be able to present themselves on camera.

@AG-yc7vt 4 ай бұрын

Exactly “It doesn’t work, it doesn’t work” But if you go to El Salvador Right now, everyone is happy and safe. No more organized crime, just regular crime like in most 1st world countries.

@Destroyer-s2e 4 ай бұрын

. There's more to it than just saying everyone is happy if you don't follow current events don't try to paint everyone under the same circumstances and situations becuase they're are definitely citizens who are struggling to prosper. Yes the gang and safety aspect of it is maintained better than before but that it is not the only problem there.

@Destroyer-s2e 4 ай бұрын

@@AG-yc7vt Plus you do realize that just becuase it's working now at the moment doesn't mean that there cant be a side effect to this rigth? I also think that what he meant was that mass incarceration doesn't help in the sense that you are just locking people up at some point people have to be let out thus is what you may be witnessing today in the U.S. with a rise in crime what are you going to do baby sit criminals for ever ? You realize that the people who benefit from all this are the prison industrial complex don't you ? But yet people love to complain about there taxes how funny. So that's why he saids mass incarceration isn't the answer. I find it funny how there's plenty of what he said but people want to focus on only that part and want to misconstrue what he said just to talk smack.

@sabot4ge 2 ай бұрын

@@Destroyer-s2e yeah but the gangs and violence and corruption is what prevented the society from prospering. it takes years to bounce back and for people to feel comfortable investing in el salvador globally. but if people see the crime is gone, other countries will invest in el salvador. thats they key to success. people have to invest in your country and that brings money into the economy and opportunities.

@pundah7084 4 ай бұрын

I always pray for these people's safety when these videos get uploaded.

@sophiaisabelle0227 4 ай бұрын

We appreciate the insights shared in this video. They're filled with impactful lessons throughout.

@dustdevilmech 4 ай бұрын

I’ll be honest MS-13 and other El Salvador gangs cause me great anxiety and fear while I was deployed in El Salvador. I wasn’t able too really enjoy what I thought was a beautiful country filled with great people.

@Kevin-mk6jo 4 ай бұрын

Lol unjustly he says... ask the population. There is a reason why bukele is VERY popular.

@Woodsie_Lord 4 ай бұрын

Try saying something against him while living there, lol. Good luck dealing with another South American tyrannical government. You can't get rid of them as easily as gangs.

@Kevin-mk6jo 4 ай бұрын

@Woodsie_Lord hmmmm if u don't live here... and experience the before.... your opinion means, zero. Concentrate in your own issues in your own country.

@Woodsie_Lord 4 ай бұрын

@@Kevin-mk6joIt's a fact that government is always your number 1 enemy. You signed your rights off the moment you tolerate their dismissal. Learn some history instead of liking your own replies with no arguments whatsoever. Your situation is not unique. Personal experience is not necessary to form arguments and conclusions based on facts. Besides, guess what is the most common issue globally, people face every day? Corrupt, tyrannical etc. governments are always source of the issues. It's happening everywhere around you, yet you decide to ignore it and hope that this one man is special and always will be just, honorable etc.

@HugoJSL Ай бұрын

??? What It's latam bro. We don't have internet censorship technologies, we barley even have internet 😭😭

@Johnnybananass-_ 4 ай бұрын

the exit strategy is make being in a gang look so bad and dangerous people wont join, nd its working the stats are dropping, good on the new leader of El Salvador

@bugsyred 4 ай бұрын

great interview

@jamaljames2578 4 ай бұрын

Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

@Philthy.mcguyver310 4 ай бұрын

Mass incarceration can’t help anything 😂 why didn’t he talk about how El Salvador’s murder rate is down by 70 percent

@AcesAndNates 4 ай бұрын

Because rational people think on orders of time longer than a year or two. Sort of helps with planning the provisioning of a state.

@iippo06 4 ай бұрын

@@AcesAndNates Try decade or two like Singapore.

@shayneb3540 4 ай бұрын

You didn’t listen to anything he said.

@Philthy.mcguyver310 4 ай бұрын

@@shayneb3540 what didn’t I listen to

@iippo06 4 ай бұрын

@@shayneb3540 If letting criminals, drug addicts & mentally ill people roam the streets of major Western cities for the past 60 years was a rational long term plan, then I'd hate to see what irrational short term planning looks like.

@stevieo9909 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Alex is well spoken and covered a lot here. . Great interview. Wish him all the success in the world and longevity. Here's a man actually trying to make a difference in the community. Much respect to Alex.

@Atite_Lometen 4 ай бұрын

Are you joking cause this guy is true a psychopath, they created programs that creates alibi for them like the 14 yr old boy, this guys still works for the gang through his NGO homies unidos, is exacly what they used to do in El Salvador, you got church pastors being arrested cause they were still doing gang business while travelling as a pastors and they would created this NGO to put ex homies in them and make them look like they were legit. That is why is so important to put this animals in prison excommunicated from the outside world.

@shawnstarkET1SS 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting.

@Honeybee-cy9gc 3 ай бұрын

In '89 on Pico and Alvarado, I personally witnessed a MS gang member walking around with a machete like nothing in broad daylight. An armed security in one of the restaurants was scared of him. On another note, I learned about the death squad during my studies in college. The CJ department had a special speaker come talk to us about it. It was very interesting!

@haroldibarra8009 4 ай бұрын

Nosotros los latinos de verdad apoyamos kas políticas de el presidente salvadoreño. Soy nicaragüense y tengo muchos amigos salvadoreños. Ellos si apoyan a su presidente

@ruthgatorbinzburg1876 4 ай бұрын

This guy feels like a propagandist for MS13. Calling a gang "vulnerable" Gtfo lol

@user-fh4nw6ct9y 4 ай бұрын

Psyop.

@robelbelay1938 Ай бұрын

The moment, he said he is still "gang member" lost it all

@nhlshstr 9 күн бұрын

I know every metal head raised their horns too at 7:55 haha

@nathan88fox 4 ай бұрын

Did he just say re-entered the country illegally?

@DontEvenTrip1 4 ай бұрын

The homie rebelde from Normandie Locos he old now hahaha we used kick it back then when we were kids right when MS was getting started at first we were called " Mara Stoners or Mara salvatrucha Stoners , MSS" then it became MSL Mara Salvatrucha Locos then when we got the 13 it became just MS Mara salvatrucha " i havent seen homeboy since the 90s. Rebelde if you ever read this Saludos homie im glad you are doing good.

@mauroortega4633 4 ай бұрын

Good looking for the homie saludes HLS

@monchin9371 3 ай бұрын

Nice video

@themysteriousfox3767 4 ай бұрын

Can you make a series like this but on cults?

@90210146 4 ай бұрын

My man, how can you sit there and say incarcerating these gang members in El Salvador hasn’t reduced violence? Look at the murder rate, it dropped significantly. Salvadorians were hostages in their own country.

@Brainbaskit 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, except they traded violence from MS to violence from government sanctioned death squads or cops just murdering people in cold blood, not to mention torture, and if your neighbor doesn't like you, they drop a dime saying you are affiliated with the game, just like that you are whisked away for prison for life, no judge, jury or lawyer. You think this will last 😆 Here we go civil war again, or at least a coup, because as he astutely stated, the conditions that led to all this are not being addressed

@jirehguy 4 ай бұрын

You completely twisted what he said

@elkikex 4 ай бұрын

14:45 He said just that

@johncenanewaccount4297 4 ай бұрын

@@jirehguy He said the incarceration wouldn't work and that it hasn't worked in the past. It is working.

@jirehguy 4 ай бұрын

@@elkikex except you are hearing it how you want to hear it instead of listening to what he is saying. You heard him say a key word that triggered a response in your brain without anything other than a surface level understanding. Idk if you think standard arresting and mass incarceration are one in the same. Or if you just heard a key word and your brain stopped listening to everything else.

@minkrobeII 4 ай бұрын

Damn this guy seems like if he was raised under better circumstances..his intelligence and ability to communicate would be so much more well served and beneficial to society..I'm glad he is no longer on that destructive path

@aaabbbccc1939 4 ай бұрын

He is blatantly a psychopath.

@DDMSakb48 4 ай бұрын

People he killed never got a second chance. lol

@chinoecinos2963 4 ай бұрын

@DDMSakb48 would you rather he's still out killing?

@Gangstermo_310 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story. Keep on keeping on homeboy 💯. FTP

@ChosenOne6666 4 ай бұрын

I grew up in L.A. he doesnt know what he is talking about.

@briccs 4 ай бұрын

bless the El Salvador president for dealing with these guys.

@williamwasilewski7925 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story ❤️🙏🏼

@t.michaelbodine4341 4 ай бұрын

"I was on my way to shoot somebody" isn't a sentence you hear people say too much. What a remarkable story.

@brendonl.4834 4 ай бұрын

This is an amazing interview

@team_divorce 4 ай бұрын

Love this video but i gotta disagree but El Salvador was on its knees and him saying they arrested people unjustly is the gang member talking in him. At least thats what i think

@user-fh4nw6ct9y 4 ай бұрын

This is how they control the narrative. you’re sensing something ain’t right here. But they are telling you to ignore your lying eyes.

@user-fh4nw6ct9y 4 ай бұрын

They deleted my response to you bro. I said this is a paid actor and this is how they set the narrative they want, attempting to change your reality. Don’t let them, this is gaslighting.

@jasonroberts9357 4 ай бұрын

Another great example of why unchecked immigration from failed/corrupt countries is foolish.

@jasonroberts9357 4 ай бұрын

@BluemanitouParaonGood luck!

@user-hu2og7uw5e Ай бұрын

He is very articulate; I'm sure it's very beneficial to his recovery process. You can tell that he rose far and above...

@acchillin6813 Ай бұрын

Cecot has already reduced violence incredibly, by all accounts.

@oscarramirez6175 4 ай бұрын

This guy is defending los pandilleros what kind of crap is that

@un0kev 4 ай бұрын

Nah fr bro Bukele has actually dropped crime with long sentences unlike previous politicians

@oscarramirez6175 4 ай бұрын

Bukele is doing great

@h1inc816 4 ай бұрын

@@un0kevhow is he any better than Putin and Xi?

@user-fh4nw6ct9y 4 ай бұрын

We’ve been mass importing the prison population of other countries. Their own country don’t want them, they’ll be persecuted if they go back, which makes them asylum seekers. This video a psyop for the suckers. Don’t get caught slippin

@aaabbbccc1939 4 ай бұрын

he may have left the gang life, but he still wants it to be a successful business. He's blatanely lying several times throughout the video to make it seem like nothing can be done about the gangs. He comes across as a complete psychopath if I'm being honest, would not be surprised at the crimes hes committed.

@Queenofsole100 4 ай бұрын

My mom moved us out of D.C. during the crack era and into Langley Park, Md. If you know, you know. 💯😄

@hrfz10 4 ай бұрын

Believe it or not, this homie Alex Sanchez from Homies Unidos, came over to my house in Highland Park and sat at the couch. 😅

@kimemerson5732 4 ай бұрын

Wow... fascinating. You are a good man!

@practicalandy1976 3 ай бұрын

The film noise is annoying

@hapwn 4 ай бұрын

We were robbed buy MS a few times in Jr. high - high school. They took our friends skate boards. He even tried to get people to try to get it back somehow. He was crying about how his grandmother gave it to him, lol... They even took his underwear a friend gave him that day. Another time, was at the Santa Monica Beach for his quarters. These people are brutal! 😢

@kx-2333 4 ай бұрын

I remember in the 90s MS was causing havoc in Koreatown Their war MS vs 18st vs playboys Was spinning out of control

@Kapon33 4 ай бұрын

My guy still about it and you can tell, you can leave it, but that pain to those you put pain to never leave your body mind and soul 🤘🏼

@Dark.One666 4 ай бұрын

Imagine fighting and killing one another for absolutely nothing. Sad and pathetic.

@Lwkboy 4 ай бұрын

Well of course everyone has a different outlook on that life, especially if you never were around that environment or structure of life

@TheThedisliker 4 ай бұрын

People with nothing to loose are the most dangerous

@scrappydoo4204 4 ай бұрын

You have to live it to understand it.

@zoanth4 4 ай бұрын

Pretty much 99% of human history

@1992CaliBoy 4 ай бұрын

The same was said about Vietnam and Iraq... Those veterans came back defeated and said it was a waste of blood. Gangs start on a good agenda and good cause as well and the people at the top turn it into a fight about money, isnt that the way politics in the real world works?..

@wayofthegrunt 4 ай бұрын

See metal music brings everyone together

@brasalexis9231 26 күн бұрын

That's a real man ❤❤❤🙏💯🐐🌻, who ever own this channel and the team thats behind this channel, Y'all doing a great job not changing people's life, the kids life . The kids need to hear x gang members tell it how it is .....🙏🙏👌♥️💯

@watema3381 4 ай бұрын

Bro is a certified OG

@Ricardo23228 4 ай бұрын

but you’re wrong brother El Salvador is safer now and California is a lot more dangerous now that they’re closing prison down.. and I live in LA and I spent half my life in prison and was a gang member so you can’t tell me I don’t know you have to have a gun in your home for home invasions and you cannot let your wife walk alone or your kids.. with Bukele as president I will take a vacation in El Salvador right now before that, I would never go over there

@kjbjupiter 4 ай бұрын

I was believing everything this guy was saying until he said el salvador is the smallest country in north america. Belize is literally right there! Plus there’s at gotta be at least 5-10 in the caribbean

@BussinandDiscussin 4 ай бұрын

OK there are people who get angry about "unlawful incarcerations" but they won't even have responsibility for getting so bad that people feel the NEED to mass incarcerate and make people so afraid for their lives they pray every day someone will come in and save their neighborhoods.

@ivettemaddi811 4 ай бұрын

President Buekele is the greatest thing to happen in El Salvador in a long time and how dare you criticize his policies that reduce the country’s murder rate to an all time low. He has made that country safer for everyone and was the reason I was able to visit family in El Salvador for the first time in my life. You don’t know anything about the country and I’m offended you have the gull to criticize him.

@diegocarmona6970 4 ай бұрын

Now they all in CECOT doing life.

@RandBurgess 4 ай бұрын

Homie kept it all the way REAL

@vibehighshinebright3540 4 ай бұрын

Lived in Honduras most of my life, i can say MS13, Mara 18 and many more had our country in a choke hold. And r*pe, murder was their motto. Many of my neighbours lost their lives to these people. Kidnappings and so much more where common tactics.

@CC-kl4nh 4 ай бұрын

They still around in Arlington Va also.

@1900CTCriminal 4 ай бұрын

WSNC To cuh

@Philthy.mcguyver310 4 ай бұрын

This guys from the ms in Los Angeles

@elliottfussell3523 4 ай бұрын

A polar bear

@BigSwagThaLionTamer 4 ай бұрын

They run parts of Manassas and Manassas Park about 30 minutes away

@Ucant.-fade_us 4 ай бұрын

I have a friend that killed 4 ms 13 and 3 18st in the USA . And his still out here hoping to find where they hang out . They killed his cousin in El Salvador and one of his brothers . His a scicario of Mara members . His like a pestilence that creeps in the night . When I look into his eyes 👀 I see the same as looking into a the eyes of a great white shark .🦈 no soul ,but we where raise together sense we where 2 yrs old .

@qwertyu3864 4 ай бұрын

MS-13 Tattoo? Yall getting real lazy with the editing 😂

@pablotorres6997 4 ай бұрын

Blessings and my best wishes to you.

@alicem0227 25 күн бұрын

When he discussed how hard it was getting rid of the tattoos, it sounds like leaving a gang has to feel like losing your religion.

@stonerguitarist4690 4 ай бұрын

Hey why be gang that's not kewl when ya Lock up and all alone have to fight for a sandwich

@danielefolletto1912 4 ай бұрын

This guy is a clown.

@user-fh4nw6ct9y 4 ай бұрын

Check out the other recent gang videos on here for more gaslighting

@Slendazzz 4 ай бұрын

The dad lore would be crazy

@aaabbbccc1939 4 ай бұрын

if he was a father he would probably just abandon his kid. He seems like a POS tbh

@yowfree3339 3 ай бұрын

God bless you sir...

@eliangiraldo671 3 ай бұрын

This dude seems sketchy to me. He definitely does not renounce the gang and seems to advocate for their activities as just another part of life and that he’s there when these people are ready to be law abiding citizens. Sounds dangerous.

@FunkyLittlePoptart Ай бұрын

I stopped believing anything he said when he mentioned that MS13 frowns upon grapists. They do no such thing. You don't have whole branches of your organization go down for trafficking underage girls if you don't condone sick behaviour.

@Philthy.mcguyver310 4 ай бұрын

Damn this guys from a crazy part of Los Angeles over there by Hoover and Normandie

@1992CaliBoy 4 ай бұрын

That's where shatto park (shadow park 18st) is

@Philthy.mcguyver310 4 ай бұрын

@@1992CaliBoy it’s not shadow park

@martinsloan3098 4 ай бұрын

Would love one of these from the perspective of one of the addicts that relied on gangs

@user-uy5ph7dh2z 4 ай бұрын

I grew up in Pico / Union area in LA getting harrased by CRASH UNIT from Rampart division all the time... I know first hand how Crime works in that area!

@andrewshantz9136 3 ай бұрын

The statistics aren’t on his side regarding crime rates not going down. El Salvador has the 2nd lowest murder rate in the Americas. Only Canada has a lower rate.

@RcruzLA 4 ай бұрын

I’ve met Alex in real life and he’s a good dude

@James-bq4kz 4 ай бұрын

This guy is talking about how mass incarceration hasn’t stopped crime rates in El Salvador? What statistics is he looking at? Their crime rates have gone from a top 5 country with the highest crime rates per capita to one of the lowest.