LIONZMAN.

I indicated since 2003 that the Mara Salvatuchra or MS 13 , and the Trinitarios (the Dominicano gang active throughout the US , St Thomas, St Croix, Belize and peripherally through proxies in some Antillean islands), are the proxies of some powerful Mexican “ narco-cartels ” . Increasingly Caribbean gangs are as I have stated previously,   displaying certain characteristics most often associated with terrorist organizations i.e. kidnappings used as a political bargaining chip whilst simultaneously using kidnapping as a revenue stream, their use of highly sophisticated military grade weapons, tactics of dismemberment of rivals and even civilians as a means of sowing terror and fear in their opposition, local populations and the elite within the state apparatus.    Drug trafficking is viewed as a primary threat to citizen security and U.S. interests in Latin America and the Caribbean despite decades of anti-drug efforts by the United States and partner ...

The photo above is a picture of the front cover of the book by Tewhan “Massacre” Butler, one of the most revered Blood leaders in New York.  At his height Massacre rubbed shoulders with the likes of Suge Knight and other “celebrities”, with Blood affiliations. Massacre commanded street respect, and his street credentials are iron-clad. Yet today he eschews gang life, and proposes a “better way”, for young people.  A true street soldier “preaching”, an anti-gang message? I think many wannabees are still missing his message, or deliberately ignoring it. In the Caribbean the Blood and Crips gang’s name brand have become ubiquitous with the youth imitating their North America cousins, it would be almost hilarious if , children weren’t being slaughtered in their numbers, all for a gang culture that is completely alien to our way of life here in the Caribbean . Dying over “colour’s”, is meaningless in our cultural context, the social interstices that created gang-c...