![]() ![]() When the police began questioning the shooters, after shoving them out of the enormous white pick-up in which they were traveling, they realized that the three had been deported from southern California not long before, and that the man they had so carefully tried to kill was Javier Osiris Resendez, better known in the streets as “Casper,” who had been expelled from southern California in the 1990s. The police captured them without much difficulty at the Salvador del Mundo roundabout, 10 minutes from the hospital where their victim was being treated. Men who are scared make mistakes, and these men made many in a single night. Without getting out of the car, the shooters unloaded all the bullets left in their rifle and pistols, and then took off, without knowing their victim’s fate. They parked in front of the hospital and prepared to finish what they started. So after a moment of doubt, the three hit men decided to follow the Volvo. But the shooters were afraid of this man and they were terrified of the possibility that he might still be alive. Once they arrived there, she sounded the horn and screamed for help the security guards moved the bleeding body of the man out of the car and into the emergency ward, and everyone disappeared inside. He was bleeding a great deal and when he was far enough away, his female companion took the wheel of the Volvo and drove as fast as she could towards the San Rafael hospital in Santa Tecla. He managed to escape, with some bullets inside him. ![]() The large man took advantage of a break in the shooting to speed away. He was also armed and the hired killers knew it – for this reason, they took care not to get too close. They aimed for his head, but the man wriggled down into the interior of the car. Once they were inside the vehicle, three men approached and took out their weapons: a 30-30 rifle and two pistols. A woman walked beside him and they headed towards a white Volvo parked in the casino parking lot. A large man left a modest casino in Ciudad Merliot after a night of gambling and partying. This is the first part of an article was originally published in Revista Factum and was translated and reprinted with permission. ![]() He writes of shootouts, drug dealing, poverty, vengeance and violence. Martinez was able to enter the world of the Sureños and go beyond what the media covers in their daily news he looks at their origins and the development of this lesser-known Salvadoran gang. The second digital edition of Revista Factum features a broad investigation, developed over many months, by Salvadoran anthropologist Juan Jose Martinez, about the other gang members that have also been deported from the US: the Sureños. However, they are far from the only ones. It is common when talking about gangs - or maras - in El Salvador to mention only the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and the Barrio 18. ![]()
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