Syntesizing

FORM "What is it like"

Gangs are a group of people that is conform by a teenager of 8 to 22 years normally. Most of the time this group do bad actions achift influence, money or look for terretories.

The mayority of this groups are formed in the low status 0, 1, 2 and in high status 5 and 6 and some time this diferents status join and fight or make a bigger gang.


 * Wars that began bettwen little groups of the neighberhoud.
 * They face the narcoterrorismo, also the dispute with the paranilitares and guerrileros urbanos.
 * Demarcation of territory to make action of power and defense.
 * gangs from cali are conformed of teennager specially.


 * 1) ====Neighberhoud gangs====
 * 2) ====Sport bars gangs====
 * 3) ====School gangs====

The difference of this gangs are the things they want, the number of people, the history, the lider, their goals their power and how they act, In cali they are aproximatly 68 gangs.
====However in this 3 different groups they existed the ones that are always fighting and looking for differents gangs to produce them. And there is the other one which is the one that they are groups of friends, but when a Gang, normally the enemie gang, arrieve and provoce the other gang, then this is how is it dangerous and ilegal things starte dor good gangs. and the bad gangs are normally doing ilegal things. ( in Cali is normally seen in AguaBlanca and neigborhood Gangs.====

=__How does Gangs work? FUNCTION__ =

====4. **sellers and recollections**: This people are an important part on gangs because the money they collect, is used for their survive, for paying their finances, their attorneys, to pay their friends that are in jail, and to buy weapons.====

An example in cali is " Somos" this is Gang and how you can see in many walls of the city is written with graffiti SOMOS.
====From all this different people there are the ones which kill who are normally the Leader, the Subleader and the Assassins. However all the ones that are in a Gang when they have a fight they are just defending their gang and they dont matter if they had kill someone. they all help together as a group in the mayority of the Gangs.==== ====In Generall gangs work with an organization within group, this helps them because by this way it is more easy of forming Gangs or it is more easy for them to commit a crime or make extorsions if they have an organize Gang.====

__Resources__: News Paper Article of Gangs in EL PAIS + Interview with gerardo quintero man of EL PAIS EDITOR.
=__**Why are Gangs like this?**__ =

Most of the causes of why are gangs like this are because of their relationships. ( social and familiar relationships).
====Also some Gangs are like this because they have some psychological problems. in some instances Gangs are like this because the mayority of the people in Gangs does not go to school and does not have education. that is why it is important for kids to know their rights,because sometimes for kids being in a Gang is because they need to or because they do not have education.====

__Resources__: police man which give us a powerpoint about Gangs. the police make an investigation and send us that power point of Gangs.
=__**How are Gangs Changing?**__ =


 * ====how the city has been growing up Gangs had also been growing because how there are people that are violating the children rights, this mean this people does not let kids to study or to have education, so kids how they dont have education when they are grow up they are part of a Gang and start making bad things. so this of not having education is growing up each time. As well, Gangers now they dont like to go and study and because it is something bored for them, so they form Gangs====

__**1980**__
====Gangs started to appear more frequently, first because the city began to grow, now the city was bigger. and second because at this time narcotrafic start to appear as well, ilegal things started to happen and this caused the appered of some Gangs. this teenagers of Gangs started to organize their self in gang, they didnt now their rights so they dont study, so that is why they then go to a Gang.====

**__1990__**
====in the 90`s there were aprox 40 Groups of gangs in Cali. now cali was a more dangerous place and an insecure city. but the city still was growing at by all this years Gangs had been gorwing and now they make bad things and things which affect a community, they now started to make ilegal things and to put drugs on them.==== ====by Months and by Years they have been a change in gangs. normally they have been growing up a lot, but in some instances they have been going down. but at this time in the 2009 there are aprox 68 Gangs in cali. this means that in a future they could be more than a 90 gangs in Cali.====

__Resources__: Interview with the expert in Gangs man of EL PAIS EDITOR. gerardo quintero. + some questions we did to some people at that time.
=**__Connection. How are gangs connected to other problems?__ **=

Gangs are connected to many other problems in many ways.


 * No education:** Usually gangsters don’t go to school because their parents can’t afford it, or the teenagers just decide to quit school, or they are expelled for bad behavior and other problems.


 * Alcoholism:** As gangsters don’t go to school, they have all day free to do what they want and waste their lives away by drinking alcohol. This problem can be connected to with **drugs** as well.


 * Unemployment:** When people find themselves out of a job, they are more likely to join a gang for economic reasons.


 * Lack of safety:** When people living in dangerous neighborhoods find themselves threatened, they look to gangs for protection and help from other people. This will make them much more likely to join a gang.


 * Child labor**: When a child joins a gang, the gang will likely force him to work to get money and do the most dangerous parts of the job.


 * Bullying**: When people go to gangs and bigger people are bully people bother someone he/she try to look for the easy solution which would be become part of a gang and this way nobody would bother the or could bully them. And they don’t have like a precion and somebody all the time bothering and telling bad things.


 * Murders**: When they are in a very big fight which is when they actually do the majority of illegal things usually they end killing 1 or more persons in a violent and terrible way and reason because they fight to protect their gang. alos when they killed someone because he odd the gang money and the person dont pay them they kill him.


 * Gun trafficking:** A gangster never goes out their hose without a white gun or a fire gun because this way they feel sifter and with less preoccupation and precion.

What are the points of view of gangs? PERSPECTIVE
Cecilia Vivas (mum of an ex ganger): She thinks that gangs in Agua Blanca are really difficult to control because the children from 5-10 years are aggressive, and most of the time they are scared because something could happened and usually they always feel insecure and this filling could take the kids to any thing for don’t feeling like this. The teenagers from 11-16 are the wrest ones and the most difficult ones make them reflect about what they are really doing to Cali and their neighborhood, they are the ones that most illegal things do and the ones that wrest act, most of them have no dad or some no parents but the most common family is supported by the mother. They are normally looking for gangs and for they to feel secure and have “real friends” and to have a kind of power because if not they generally feel miserable and they bully him or her because she’s/he’s alone. This power makes them have an impact in others gangs and the type of gang she/he is on, this people from this ages are the ones who normally have the biggest power, this mean that they are normally the leader or the sub leader have the most important powers, because they are not other than 18 so they cant go to jail and this is way they do what they want to, however at this ages they are tow different decisions that could change their life and define their future, they could take the decision to go out of gangs or to stay this decision is taken just by some and normally when they are 15-16 and they mostly do this because something really bad had happened to their gang or they as gang members don’t feel right, and the others generally stay until they each time committed wrest actions and the police start to look for them. Gang members of Agua Blanca don’t go to school because their parents can’t afford it or because they get expelled from school for bad behavior. And when my kid started to look for his real friends I realize we needed to do something and this is way I work here. Ex member of gang (name can’t be said): He now realized that being in a gang wasn’t as bad as people of the society think it is, however how they are tow different types one is the one that is the wrest one which is the one that provoke the others and the good one which is ho my gang was which consisted like it’s a normal group of friends and when they provoke them they fight however in Agua Blanca the members of the good gang don’t go to school as well as the bad gang which there none go to it, the wrest thing that happened to me was the killed one of my best friends and I felt really bad and I started reflecting about really if I need to be on it. Now I have a dream which is to become a police man because I think the police is helping lots of people from gang to go out of them and reflect and when I was in a gang I really admire and my role model was a police because they saved my life more than two times. And I really want to thanks this opportunity this foundation has given me because now my parents are calmer and because this life is much better. Society in general P.O.V: the society generally considerate that gangs are really bad because they do a lot of acts that makes people be nervous most of the time they are in the streets, also they are the ones that damage and make graffitist or logos in the clean walls which make Cali see kind of ugly and be more dangerous. However most of the people also believe that they are totally bad when they used the power they have in a gang to bully others, and also when they used their power to for making others have his fault of what they have done. Their parents are also affected because they are always nervous about something bad could happen with his sun. The parents of the teenagers are also nervous about the same but also that they join to one or because may be they could be the victims. Little child In dangerous neighborhoods like Agua Blanca: They in generally think that being part of a gang seems to be very nice because they have their friends and they talk really cool and they are cool, they now this because normally they have big brothers or sisters and they are in a gang If someone close to them and if not they could see them while they are at school or playing in the street. They said that when they are big they would like to be in one because that the coolest role model they have.

__Who found the information__: Cristina Lenis __Resources__: interview to mum of an ex ganger + and ex ganger from agua blanca+ little kid of a fundation + many people. (society)+policeman. sargento jaramillo.