The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman
ISBN-13:
9781786634931
ISBN-10:
1786634937
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Oscar Martinez, Juan Martinez
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Verso
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Cultural & Regional
,
Military
,
Leaders & Notable People
,
Political
,
Organized Crime
,
True Crime
,
Criminology
,
Social Sciences
,
Violence in Society
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ISBN-13:
9781786634931
ISBN-10:
1786634937
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Oscar Martinez, Juan Martinez
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Verso
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Cultural & Regional
,
Military
,
Leaders & Notable People
,
Political
,
Organized Crime
,
True Crime
,
Criminology
,
Social Sciences
,
Violence in Society
Summary
The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman (ISBN-13: 9781786634931 and ISBN-10: 1786634937), written by authors
Oscar Martinez, Juan Martinez, was published by Verso in 2019.
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Description
The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster
As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad—the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha—a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s, as Salvadoran children, whose families had fled their country’s civil war, banded together to defend themselves from LA gangs. Denied refugee status, the Salvadorans found themselves pushed into the shadows and besieged by violence, and MS-13 itself mutated into a gang. When large-scale US deportations began, violence was exported from the United States to El Salvador, helping make it one of the world’s deadliest countries and in turn propelling new waves of refugees northward.
The Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan José Martínez got to know the Hollywood Kid when he informed on MS-13. In his hideaway shack, he recounted a life of killing—a death toll of more than fifty rival gang members—until his own murder ended the story. Vivid and violent, The Hollywood Kid brings a brutal world to life, illustrating the geopolitical forces propelling a country toward ever more vicious extremes.
As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad—the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha—a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s, as Salvadoran children, whose families had fled their country’s civil war, banded together to defend themselves from LA gangs. Denied refugee status, the Salvadorans found themselves pushed into the shadows and besieged by violence, and MS-13 itself mutated into a gang. When large-scale US deportations began, violence was exported from the United States to El Salvador, helping make it one of the world’s deadliest countries and in turn propelling new waves of refugees northward.
The Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan José Martínez got to know the Hollywood Kid when he informed on MS-13. In his hideaway shack, he recounted a life of killing—a death toll of more than fifty rival gang members—until his own murder ended the story. Vivid and violent, The Hollywood Kid brings a brutal world to life, illustrating the geopolitical forces propelling a country toward ever more vicious extremes.
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