In San Salvador, El Salvador, 2,000 miles from Los Angeles?s Eighteenth Street, a gang known as ?18″ governs its territory like an armed militia. In the mid 1990s, thousands of Salvadoran nationals living illegally in the U.S. were deported to their homeland. Some brought L.A. gang culture back with them to a country beset by poverty and awash in arms. Organizing support for gang members in need, meting out justice to those who would defy the gang?s code and waging an endless vendetta against its enemies, 18 is helping to make El Salvador one of the most violent and crime-ridden countries in the world.........18 with a Bullet, follows the life of this notorious Central American gang for six months. By the end of the film, most of the gang members profiled ? Slappy, Sochi, and 18-year old Travieso ? are in jail serving long sentences for their crimes.

Starring:

Jay O. Sanders

Genre:

Documentary