Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Latin gang touches region
''A lot of people don't want to hear this, but our military intervention [in Central America] spawned a gang,'' said Tom Hayden, a liberal activist and former California state senator who penned the book Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence.
Human rights monitors such as Hayden and the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs have criticized the gang crackdown as heavy handed.
Human rights monitors such as Hayden and the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs have criticized the gang crackdown as heavy handed.
