MS-13 
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
4/29/2020
‘I’ve Lost Everything to the Beast’: Reviewing 4 Books on MS-13
by Rachel Nolan
While the specter of the MS-13 gang has been central to political panics about immigration, the group's origins are American. A Latin American historian reviews four new books.
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9/6/2020
Trump Can Use MS-13 as a Prop Because the US Won't Acknowledge a Role in Creating It
by Roberto Lovato
Roberto Lovato's new book "Unforgetting: " examines how policing in the United States, including a combined crackdown on immigration and gang activity led by William Barr after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, helped create MS-13 as a transnational criminal gang and a political symbol of fear to be exploited in election years.
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