This is also prevalent in Spain, Italy and even Belgium. Most of the founding members gradually vanished from the gang and with them the original purpose of forming the MS-13 gradually changed and then it has become transformed into a common criminal gang with a peculiar composition. Most of the founding members of the gang appeared to have hailed from the right-wing death squads those disintegrated into criminal activity and joined MS-13 for several objectives. The enrolled ones in such gangs have received training in firearms, explosives and booby traps. Irrespective of the report of the US National Drug Intelligence Center during the year 2004 indicating about the attempt of Mara Salvatrucha in different regions for establishing a coordination network, there appears no centralization or hierarchy among the gang from different fields. In its initial periods in US the gang Mara Salvatrucha permitted only the Salvadorans as members. 3.

             However, with the passage of time the gang involves members from other Latin American countries. Mara Salvatrucha is also having some non-Latino black members. Members are intensively persuaded to bear tattoos as a mark of their allegiance to the organization, Mara Salvatrucha. Enrolment to the gang implies the membership for life and those who leaves the group is succumbed to death. Literally, the concept 'Mara' signifies the gang and the word 'Salvatrucha' is seen as a blending of the words Salvadorian and trucha meaning trout, a Spanish slang used for being alert, vigilant and in preparedness for crime or abuse from police. The number 13 has been included in the name of the organization as a commemoration to the fact of its origin in the 13th Street in Los Angeles. The number 13 is used by Mexican Mafia or Surenos to detect each other the gang uses number 13 to mark the influence of such groups. The number 13 further indicates Hispanic gangs in Southern California and the number 14 indicate the Hispanic gangs in Northern California.