I came across this article that details the financial exploits of the Salvadoran Street gangs and how their financial clout is over hyped by both the U.S. and Salvadoran Governments
Killers on a Shoestring: Inside the Gangs of El Salvador
"They do not begin to belong in the same financial league with the billion-dollar Mexican, Japanese and Russian syndicates with which they are grouped. If they are mafias, they are mafias of the poor. El Salvador has been brought to its knees by an army of flies"
"MS-13’s annual revenue appears to be about $31.2 million"
"The man owned a bus. His son, who also owned a bus, said his father, tired of being extorted, had finally stopped making his $1 daily payment to the gang three weeks before his death. It murdered him because of $21"
"Chiki, who was serving time for extortion, ordered Shaggy to make a pickup of an extortion payment. It was $100 , And, though Shaggy risked up to 20 years in prison if caught, there was something special in it for him, Chiki said. . . . "Keep two bucks so you can get yourself something to eat,” Chiki said.
"In the four years before Operation Check, the biggest sum collected in a police anti-extortion raid was $6,377; some raids netted only $5."
They have all these members, and a lemonade stand in Des Moines is grossing more than these goofs?!
Killers on a Shoestring: Inside the Gangs of El Salvador
"They do not begin to belong in the same financial league with the billion-dollar Mexican, Japanese and Russian syndicates with which they are grouped. If they are mafias, they are mafias of the poor. El Salvador has been brought to its knees by an army of flies"
"MS-13’s annual revenue appears to be about $31.2 million"
"The man owned a bus. His son, who also owned a bus, said his father, tired of being extorted, had finally stopped making his $1 daily payment to the gang three weeks before his death. It murdered him because of $21"
"Chiki, who was serving time for extortion, ordered Shaggy to make a pickup of an extortion payment. It was $100 , And, though Shaggy risked up to 20 years in prison if caught, there was something special in it for him, Chiki said. . . . "Keep two bucks so you can get yourself something to eat,” Chiki said.
"In the four years before Operation Check, the biggest sum collected in a police anti-extortion raid was $6,377; some raids netted only $5."
They have all these members, and a lemonade stand in Des Moines is grossing more than these goofs?!