MS-13 is a relatively well-known Los Angeles gang that has spread all across the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Central America. MS-13, standing for Mara Salvatrucha, has been active since the 1980s and members distinguish themselves with unique tattoos, often placed on their face.
Recently, a Mexican artist—Renato Garza Cervera—decided to recreate members of MS-13 into bear rugs. The pieces are described on Art Mur as the following:
Societies always invent new beasts in order to make others responsible for their problems, to express their fears and to invent them a new cover.
Mass media play a very important role on this world-wide scapegoating process, by presenting some minorities as uncapable of thinking or feeling, delayed and dispensable people.
The best way to describe these pieces is completely terrifying:
If you aren't creeped out, this one might do the trick:
