Udah jam 2 pagi dan ga bisa tidur, akhirnya gw online pake hp (lewat eBuddy), trus tiba-tiba ada temen SD gw waktu di Mexico nyapa. Gw inget banget tampang nih cowo culun dan lucu tapi pas udah gede (gw lihat fotonya di hi5) sumpah jadinya ganteng bgt (that’s another story).
Anyways, asik banget chat nya, padahal bahasa Spanyol gw udah pas-pasan banget karena jarang dipake dan diapun maklum. Dia mulai cerita kalo dia udah punya cewe keturunan Jepang gitu trus dia juga nanya kenapa gw bisa nyasar di Mexico dan stay di Indonesia, gw jelasin tuh. Karena dia nanya kayak gt, tiba-tiba gw inget kalo dulu dia juga pernah tinggal di Guatemala dan langsung gw tanya: ”kalo ga salah lu pernah tinggal di Guatemala, bener ga sih gw? Atau itu orang lain? Trus dia jawab dan gw cm bisa nangkep kalimat awal dan beberapa kata aja (mungkin karena udah mulai ngantuk kali ya?) Kalimat awalnya gini: Iya nyokap gw dari Guatemala……….. kita dulu diculik oleh Mara Salvatrucha………….. dan gw berharap suatu hari bisa ketemu nyokap gw lagi (titik-titik itu kalimat tp gw lupa apa). Pas pertama denger nama itu, gw bingung dan sebenarnya pengen nanya lebih lanjut, tapi melihat ada kata-kata “diculik” yaudalah mending gw penasaran daripada membuat orang sedih! Dan langsung tuh gw tulis nama Mara Slavtrucha biar ga lupa, jadi bisa gw search infonya. Pas gw mau cerna lagi kata-kata dia dan mau baca message sebelumnya, eh udah kehapus di hp (soalnya chatnya udah lumayan panjang). Yang sampe skarang gw bingung kalo dia diculik bersama nyokapnya juga, kok dia bisa nyampe di Mexico??? Big question yang gw ga bakal pernah dapet jawabannya!
Nah langsung tuh gw browse pake hp dan pas google tuh nama (ke wikipedia) langsung keluar gambar orang yang badannya penuh dengan tato, sumpah serem bgt! Dan ternyata Mara Salvatrucha itu adalah sebuah gang (hispanic gang lebih tepatnya).
Ini info yang gw dapet dari wikipedia: Hispanic gang that originated in Los Angeles and spread to Central America and other parts of the United States. Mara Salvatrucha is therefore composed of many loosely-connected gangs or factions of the same name, known as “cliques.” The gangs’ names are commonly abbreviated as MS, Mara, and MS-13, and are composed mostly of Salvadorans, Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans.
Their activities have caught the eye of the FBI, who in September 2005 initiated wide-scale raids against suspected gang members, netting 660 arrests across the country. In the United States, the gang’s strongholds have historically been in the American Southwest and West Coast states. Membership in the U.S was believed to be as many as about 50,000 as of 2005.MS-13 criminal activities include drug smuggling and sales, black market gun sales, human trafficking, auto thefts, home invasions, assaults on law enforcement officials, and contract killing.
Kalo dari Nagia (National Alliance Gang Investigators’ Associations): MS members have been involved in burglaries, auto thefts, narcotic sales, home invasion robberies, weapons smuggling, car jacking, extortion, murder, rape, witness intimidation, illegal firearm sales, car theft and aggravated assaults. In terms of drug trafficking activities, common drugs sold by MS members include cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine. Mara Salvatrucha gang members have even placed a tax on prostitutes and non-gang member drug dealers who are working in MS “turf.” Failure to pay up will most likely result in violence.
Terus pas gw baca kegiatan gang ini (yang di bold), gw langsung tertuju ke human trafficking. Apakah temen gw ini ato nyokapnya jadi korban human trafficking? Abisnya apalagi, masa drug smuggling ato home invasions? Perkiraan gw kalo udah berhubungan dgn “penculikan”, berarti paling nyambung sama human trafficking. On gosh, I can’t imagine if that was what really happenned to him and to his family. It’s so sad! Apalagi kalo itu terjadi sama keluarga gw sendiri, gw pasti stres banget. I think it was in 3rd or 4th grade when he migrated to Mexico and at that time he was a new student dan bayangin pada umur 9-10 tahun dia udah mengalami hal seperti itu. And after almor ten years, temen gw itu masih berharap kalo suatu hari bisa ketemu sama nyokapnya (ato mungkin sama keluarganya).
Kalo gw baca di wikipedia, gang ini sadis banget padahal tujuannya cuma ingin menjadi gang yang paling terkenal di Amerika Serikat. Killing people and do all those crazy things just to be famous? That’s fucking insane! Kalo minjem kata-katanya mbak Rima Fauzi “Human: The cruelest species of them all” dan gw setuju, manusia itu jahat banget. Kok bisa sesimpel dan sesempit itu pikiran orang terus membunuh, memperkosa, mengintimidasi only for fun. It’s not fair! Dunia ini semakin freak….. Mungkin Oom Yesus sudah pusing lihat manusia tambah lama tambah gila!
Ini tambahan, I was browsing more info about this freak gang and turns out that there is also a documentary 
film Hijos De La Guerra (Children of War) that won many international film festivals. Kalo ada yang punya atau ketemu film ini, gw mau pinjem donk! I really want to watch it! Thanks
Yo Soy Alicia 