The Maras (U.S. street gangs expulsed to Central America, specially El Salvador and Honduras) have established in Spain since 2005. According to a government report obtaine by spanish paper La Razón , the Maras (Barrio 18 and MS13 gangs) could now use the country’s fragile economic situation to expand in the traffic of narcotics.
Spain is a jumping off point for cocaine distributed in Europe. The U.S. designated the Maras (started as a street gang in the streets of Los Angeles) as a transnational criminal organization.
The Maras are becoming genuinely transnational operations.