The Observer | World | Gang wars shake Spain's Latin quarter: "Sitting on a bench outside a run-down apartment block in Madrid's scruffy central Lavapies district, 16-year-old Jalin shakes his head when conversation turns to the 'Latin gangs'. 'We have some trouble with them but now they have gone underground,' he said slowly, picking his words carefully and looking about him. 'For the moment no one is interested. It's just too much hassle. And no one wants problems right now.'
Jalin falls silent as a police patrol passes. Though he does not know it, the teenager is at the centre of a bitter struggle between the municipal authorities of Spain's capital and the gangs that have exploded on to Madrid's criminal scene in the past three years."