Posted on 06/05/2015 10:22:42 PM PDT by Perseverando
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rampant gang violence and drug turf wars in parts of Central America are fuelling child marriage as girls seek to marry or couple with gang members and older men as a form of protection, researchers say.
Traditionally child marriage has been most prevalent among indigenous communities in rural areas across Central America.
But humanitarian groups working in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, say anecdotal evidence gathered in the past five years shows drug-fueled gang violence and organized crime is driving more girls to get married in cities.
"We are seeing and hearing that increasing numbers of girls are getting married and coupled to seek protection from gang violence and intimation from gangs," said Amanda Rives, Latin America advocacy director for the charity World Vision.
"Being in a couple with a gang member may give the girl and her family some level of protection from one gang, but may leave them more vulnerable to rival gangs," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
In El Salvador and Honduras - countries with the world's highest murder rates - entire city neighborhoods are controlled by powerful street gangs, known as maras.
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One of the conditions of the last days is a world full of violence.
That stuff already goes on in some of our “immigrant” communities. Mara Salvatrucha has been here for years, and assimilation isn’t what they’re here for.
This is coming your way, too. Is this the future you are working so hard for?
The world is a much less violent place than it used to be.
In many “primitive” tribes 10% to 50% of males died over time in internal and external violence. Black males in US today have somewhere around a one in 50 (2%) lifetime chance of dying by violence. White males something like one in 300 (0.3%). Women considerably lower, despite the nonsense you see about violence against women.
That’s with a murder rate in El Salvador of 71 per 100,000, vs. about 4.5/100k last year in USA. Probably will go up this year. Many countries in Europe are down in the 1 or 2 range.
There are numerous cities in USA with murder rates of 20 to 50. And certainly neighborhoods that are much higher.
Murder rates in medieval Europe were comparable to those today in New Orleans or Detroit, though perhaps not quite as high as El Salvador, at least over large areas.
It should probably be noted that “murder” was probably defined a good deal more loosely in medieval Europe. What we today would consider murder was often at the time classified as legitimate “private war” by nobles. Duels in medieval and early modern Europe were also often not considered murder.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/06/long-term-trend-in-homicide-rates.html
3 teenage MS-13 gang members charged with rape
https://news.yahoo.com/da-3-teenage-ms-13-gang-members-charged-192714521.html
Yes and no.
The numbers may have been declining, but that trend may now be in reverse with the genocidal violence taking place in the ME and Obama important all those illegals, as well as hardcore Islamacists in various points of the country.
Possibly. Though numbers I’ve seen indicate that people killed by violence of all types has dropped off greatly since WWII.
Even the 20th century, widely spoken of as the most violent in history, isn’t really. Possibly it is if you consider only the raw numbers killed violently. But that is of course from a much larger population. As a percentage the 20th probably isn’t even in the running.
For the last 2000+ years China has had a cycle of dynasties collapsing and eventually a new one taking over. During this period the population usually crashed by anything from 25% to 75%. The percentage killed by the commies was actually much below that.
Germany probably lost less than 10% of its population during WWII. During the 30 Years War of the 17th century, it is generally estimated the German states lost 25% to 40%. Some regions never really recovered completely.
We consider the world of today and the recent past to be terribly violent mostly because we don’t realize what it was like in the more distant past.
It’s estimated about 8M people live in the territory controlled by ISIS, and that ISIS has killed something like 170,000 people.
That’s somewhere around 2% at this point. Way, way below the percentage killed by the Khmer Rouge. The Rwanda genocide killed around 800,000 people, from a population about the same size as that of the Islamic State.
The 170,000 number killed by ISIS is probably way too high.
Intimation? Are the gangs making suggestions that folks get married? Are the gangs initiating marriages?
Maybe a different word was meant here...
Are the gangs imitating the married couples? Are the couples imitating the gangs?
We are allowing the cretans in charge to take us down this road and the label “racist” “white priviledge” “income equality” “diversity” and other key rat commie slogans are protecting them while they do this
Central America is almost as bad as mexico.
Exactly right. I have been frequently telling people this recently and they don't get it. One of the last verses in the Bible before the Great Flood says, "And the world was filled with violence."
Very few are paying attention. It has become pointless to say much of anything.
Or they analyze it until it doesn’t mean anything.
“This is coming your way, too. Is this the future you are working so hard for?”
Duh. You are the one that has associated themselves with gangs, not me.
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