They are one of the most notorious, violent gangs in Central America, turning cities into war zones and threatening the authority of the state. Famous for their tattoos and the cruelty of their crimes, the Maras have controlled Guatemala city for more than 20 years. They terrorise locals, trafficking drugs and people and running lucrative sidelines in contract killings, robberies and extortion. The police are either corrupt or powerless to act and now people have started taking things into their own hands, forming militias and introducing check-points and armed patrols. Thierry Gayton is one of the few journalists in the world to have filmed the Maras, their lives and their crimes. He also filmed with citizen's militias, who themselves sometimes resort to violence. Filmed at great risk over several months, this is an exceptional look at the Maras.

@serbriz69

Ай бұрын

ONG$ bussines🤑🐀🤑🐀🤑

@laudreport3798

Ай бұрын

​@@serbriz69 I agree, absolutely! Thank God El Salvador broke free.

@tenac10ac

Ай бұрын

He must have nerves of steel to enter their domain with all uncertainty about his own safety 😮

@lipokjungshi5385

Ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

@lipokjungshi5385

Ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 3:51 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

“The prosecutors don’t have much evidence “…Proceeds to tell the camera how he killed someone.

@nyirouajuot6799

Ай бұрын

Lol,I was like what the heck 😅😅, the prosecutor had received self discrimenate evidence 😅😅😅😅

@sabel5209

Ай бұрын

they're all the same, they think its game, like trying to get out of detention in school

@thehumanrightschannelbythe3958

Ай бұрын

I was about to post the same thing. He is the "picture" of innocence.

@thecountysfinest

Ай бұрын

Omg I was literally about to write the exact same comment 😂😂

@nkongefrancis2653

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Shoutout to the reporters/journalists who venture deep into these Hell holes to capture great footage nd interviews for our consumption 🙏🏽.. America 🇺🇸 isn’t perfect but I am grateful nd thankful to live here 🥺🙌🏾❤️🫶🏽

@FreeDocumentary

17 күн бұрын

nice comment thank you

I feel so sorry for the people that have to suffer for the sake of just living. It’s Terrifying to think that they would kill a human being for so little 😢

Gang Leader with a Mini Mouse picture in his room 😂

@CaptainAMAZINGGG

15 күн бұрын

Well yes because it IS someone's home and there usually is just a family's room, most ppl don't have their own private bedroom..

Bloody hell tgat camera guy is so brave. They just kill like we eat veg

This is real journalism folks.

@CraigStCyrPlus

Ай бұрын

A low trade habit worse than heroin, as Hunter would say. Respect to those still doing it right.

Absolutely love the narrator!!

@SilkDoctr

Ай бұрын

Me too haha he’s my favorite from these guys and it’s so funny because I understand Spanish but he’s translating into English haha so I’m watching it in both languages

@williamkimani8779

Ай бұрын

What's his name

This translator voice is the most good one, his voice and the way he say things is Wonderful

Thanks,

I’m hoping to get released because the prosecutors don’t have evidence.. mean while a sentence later he explains how he put two bullets in someone’s head smh😂

@Dr_MKUltra

11 күн бұрын

😂

I was born in guatemala city 🇬🇹🇬🇹 but my birth mother gave me up and now I have a much better life here in the US. I wish I could help more tho:/

"The prosecuters don't have alot of evidence" Literally spills the frijoles.

How parents and old people see you after geting a tattoo

@kunobuje542

Ай бұрын

Bro😂👉

its sad to see how people treat each other in guatemala… it is what it is tho..

Elite police tripping getting out of a car😂

This is normal life and they knowingly have children.... make sense of that

Guatemala needs Bukele like leadership

@LiveTheGhost

Ай бұрын

A lot of the gang members in Guatemala and Venezuela are ones that fled El Salvador when Bukele took power. They're like a plague of fleas.

Audio sounds weird but great documentary

I've seen this documentary on another channel way before...

No proper consequences from the authorities leads to this behaviour

The punchline at the end is blood-curdling.

Is this an old episode?

Great

34:20 I love how she just runs up and kicks the guy 🤣 and take that!

Terbaik 👍

Best ending of any documentary I’ve ever seen.

@Error_-qz2zr

Ай бұрын

boom boom captures an assassination, if it was any other country i would think its fake but that seemed for real

Boss man likes Mini Mouse 😂

@CaptainAMAZINGGG

15 күн бұрын

He likely has a wife and kids tbh.

Can y’all put a version with subtitles and leave it in Spanish the translation is off

286 years. Don't worry. Due to good, peaceful behavior the time of the imprisonment will be reduced by 173 years and 5 month. You still have a bright future to look forward to ...

1:00 Lol this dude deadass has a whole weedplant across his entire stomach 🤣

Quality 360p

Bad*ss guy in the end of the video showing who’s the real boss there!

Legends know this is an old recycled documentary

God bless Guatemala... the homeland.... motherland.....❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉

@Samurai78420

Ай бұрын

I agree. I got the chance to visit Guatemala a couple times in the early oughts. Some of the nicest people ever. I did not see this side of things. Bummer. It's such an incredibly beautiful country.

Repeat 🔁

Why do he feel the need to unalive someone's baby, brother, father when he himself felt so miserable,sad and all the things that death of a relative brings and he knows it first hand,do he even realise that people are going to mourn and feel the most transend sorrow for their lives one but on the other hand they only care for themselves and everything is good as long as it ain't happen to em, this is a very sad state of mind bring about by corruption and poverty but it's best and wise not to include urself and endulge urself in gang activities

Haha. First guy says they do not have enough evidence to keep him there over 200 years. Then, on camera he starts confessing to murdering lots of people😂😂

Freddy died, right? There is no way…

I was down there in 04', lived in Antigua for a couple of months. Loved every day I was there, but I still read about the shootings almost every morning.

All of them looks like working landscaping

It's bad that people have to live in fear every day

very sad to see.

4:38 Yeah, his enemies will never find out who he is.🤦‍♂️

When was this filmed?

@malcolmodoy2651

Ай бұрын

Doesn't matter as long as the information is accurate.

@kingrama2727

Ай бұрын

1997

45:54 he talks about he's a hired killer. Manage to point the gun to his face lol 😂😂😂

At least the police are trying to help because no one should have to live like that

Violence has been an integral part of South American cultures for thousands of years.

The cameraman is so brave tapos ang kulit HAHAHAHA

Imagine the taxi driver being a hitman.

Come and do landscaping

Latin America and the middle east are no different. The amount of blood shed spilled is just horrendous and sad

Freddie dies i remember the sister crying. Back in the days😊

Freddy died after this

@antoniod3254

Ай бұрын

Probably

@MidnightPolaris800

Ай бұрын

Cool😂

Boss need to be working landscaping

Who is the narrator please?

A lot of them are here in the United States

Ooo Freddy died now

No evidence but got 280+years 😁😁 Then goes on to say how many people he's shot my manz crazy. 😇😇

Wow.. we resorting to reuploads huh

No entiendo porque no sacan al ejercito!!! Sino estan haciendo nada que al menos esten patrullando las zonas rojas!!!!

Confidentiality is obviously non existent here 🤔

"We dont screw around" ... they screwing their own country

Ooh. My gosh they never preparing he falls mr officer 😅😅😅

He had them play a song called "know one lives forever" to his passed brother, 😂😂 insanely ironic...

@CaptainAMAZINGGG

15 күн бұрын

That's not irony. Irony would be if the song was about permanence/ living forever

50mins 50

this video is like 15 years old... from 2005

its an old documentary

@redibami7652

Ай бұрын

No

@Roybaaa

Ай бұрын

@@redibami7652 it is old as fvck, fvck you talkin bout

Life mean nothing to them. We only lives once

This is kind of difficult to follow when one person is translating for everyone

@RolandinBroward

Ай бұрын

I can teach you spanish babe.

@CaptainAMAZINGGG

15 күн бұрын

No it's not.

A lot of this seems dodgy. If its a real doco the guy doing the filming would have been in court due to him filming a robbery and then a murder. Due to the age of this doco, anyone know what happened to the guy filming? Did he get dragged into court or was it staged???

They have no problem with killing someone but after he said that he was pissed off. Not yet a hardened criminal??

That’s why all of them try to cross the border

I feel like some of dis doc is fake if yall see some of the tattoos are smeared like if dey are marker made

This documentary fake asf, ain't no way he recorded himself doing a roberry

He fall down

This is old documentary

way to recycle footage .... lameeeee

@Dr.ZoidbergPhD

Ай бұрын

Go make a new one then

Their tattoos look like kids drawings.

@BickusDickus

Ай бұрын

Their tattoos are fake. Actors 😂

@CaptainAMAZINGGG

15 күн бұрын

Most tattoos still do😂

Recycling videos,,,,

What This Camara Man Is Doing Is Wrong, Why Are They Recording A Crime? If This Was In The USA 🇺🇸 They Would Have Been Arrested, And Charge, Along With The Maras!

why the vid quality is so bad?

@JJ-Toreddie

Ай бұрын

This was probably filmed 20 years ago

They are messing up their own country

lol police is not wearing right kind of shoes

So much of this is fake. Y’all lost credibility here. These dudes are acting. That “robbery” was staged. C’mon y’all. This is ridiculous.

Gun is so old like their country

Robbin small amounts😂

This footage is over a decade old 🤣

@CaptainAMAZINGGG

15 күн бұрын

So

This is by far the most ridiculous video from gangs I’ve ever seen! This looks so fake.

Fruits Flower Milk Ghee 😢Curd मोेइ😢 TSVU KAPD UMHM

This isn’t your documentary it belongs to the guy from Spain that got kidnapped and killed David Beriain y Roberto Frail , I’ve already saw this 5 years ago I hope you give them credits for his work , you didn’t do the contact all this thugs are idiots , this video is old not yours CREDITS TO David Beriain y Roberto Frail

Estos huecos son hahahah

Obviously hes dead....33mins

Bakwas

This is why the 2nd amendment in the USA is vital.

@apg8396

Ай бұрын

To prevent poverty and provide gainful employment?

@D.J.Themeparkvideos

Ай бұрын

European countries don't have the 2nd amendment and we're doing just fine?

@MrTsiolkovsky

Ай бұрын

@@D.J.Themeparkvideos And how about Ukraine? Any guns there?

@elimcfly350

Ай бұрын

Literally not at all what the 2nd amendment is for but okay, brainwashed Yankee

@CNYKnifeNut

Ай бұрын

​@@MrTsiolkovskythat's.... not the own that you think it is. You should travel. Literally and metaphorically. Leaving the echo chamber you seek comfort in is step one. Step two will develop organically in your brain if you can accomplish the first step.

This is bs

This has to be acting lmaooo

So many people are dying without knowing Christ 😢

@BmanNL1

Ай бұрын

Who?

@loscastaneda3766

Ай бұрын

Every knee shall bow. If it's in this life or the next. Even the ones that play dumb 😂

@apg8396

Ай бұрын

No, because the ones that "know" JC seem to be doing all the killing...watch the documentary

@celtasnake

27 күн бұрын

Or Darth Vader.

Well I dont know why but this whole documentary movie seems to be staged af…maaan I dont know…its just a poor acting of those ,,maras,, or the lady buying the newspapers…I dont know man…

@JJ-Toreddie

Ай бұрын

These are fake. That's what many others have said

@user-bq4vh2hv8k

Ай бұрын

What on earth are you talking about?

This abuse of human rights, why are they filming them 😂