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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah seems like you're right and there is Spanish language origin, or it was adopted into Spanish from another language. But it seems to have been slang and not a commonly used word.

My theory also falls apart because mara Salvatrucha was formed in los Angeles where they would have access to Mexican Spanish. I thought they started in El Salvador