| Sumario: | The article analyzes the relationship between the gangs, the daily violence, and the marginalization in Guatemala. This proposal considers that gangs are an exceptional example of the use of violence, and repairs in the orientation of these groups, towards the activities of transgression of law as a tool of affirmation and empowerment. The paper describes the impact of the unequal distribution of violence at the social level, it is accentuated in impoverished neighborhoods and acquired a chronic character. Finally, the article mentions social cleansing directed at the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha because this phenomenon is a manifestation of the deepening of community aggressions. The violence is used by diverse social actors, the gangs are one more case of the necropolitics reality in Guatemala.
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