State terror, which manifested itself in many forms including imprisonment and death squads, was an extremely terrifying aspect of life that many of the Latinos had to face. One of the reasons why state terror is such a prevalent problem is because the government does nothing to solve the problem or even implements it. For example, some of the governments are extremely corrupt and in order for the people in office to stay in power, they must silence those protesting against the corruption through brutal methods. This threat was extremely prominent in texts such as I, Rigoberta Menchu, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and gang violence article. In The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Diaz, the main antagonist of the book …show more content…
Instead, one of the reasons why places such as Central America are plagued with gang violence is because the United States government deports all of the immigrants, including those who have become affiliated with gangs, back to Central America. The United States officials could not warn the governments of Central America which deportees are gang members because "immigration rules banned U.S. officials from disclosing the criminal backgrounds of the deportees" (Arana 101). Many of these gangs, which originated into the United States, gain influence in Central America, transcending into "powerful, cross-border crime networks" (Arana 98). Then these gang members introduce United States gangs to Central America, recruiting many people who were not originally part of gangs. As a result, gang violence has become extremely prevalent in Central America. Here, the government is not sanctioning state of terror, but is rather only allowing it to happen through negligence. Unlike the Trujillo regime or the Guatemalan government, the government is not the direct cause of this state of terror, but it could do more to prevent gang violence. State of terror is implemented through brutal methods disappearances, massacres, and death squads, terrorizing not only the Latino population in Latin America, but also the Latino population in the United States. Many of these people had no choice but to remain silent, and had no power to bring about change, or else