english: Maras or organized youth gangs—MS13 and Mara 18, which originated in the nineties with deported gang members who grew up in low-income barrios in California—control barrios in some of the country's most important cities. In La Ceiba, a Caribbean resort town that has a reputation as an important drug trafficking corridor, and where civil society is desperately trying to rebuild its tourist flow, youth gangs have proliferated and even determine who can live in their areas of control.
non_english: Due maras, la MS13 e la Mara 18, bande giovanili che nacquero da giovani membri di gang cresciuti in California e deportati negli anni '90, controllano le periferie delle città più importanti, dove decidono chi entra ed esce dai vari quartieri; questo succede, ad esempio, in La Ceiba, una delle più importanti città della costa caraibica honduregna.