Marvin Edgardo Ortiz

My Uphill Battle Marvin Edgardo Ortiz

From the rough inner city of Los Angeles to the dangerous streets of El Salvador this is a story that depicts the life of an individual that was reared in the United States as a child, but was deported to his native country -of El Salvador- as an adult. The result is a fight for survival from a government that has a misconception of gangs and is mistaking him for a leader of what is now one of the most dangerous gang ever known: The Mara Salvatrucha 13 or (MS 13). Consequently, a group of paramilitary death squads known as the Sombra Negra or (Black Shadow) has been form to "exterminate" the plague that is now spreading across the murder capital of the world. Undergoing an escape was no easy task.