When many were later deported for crimes in the United States, the gangs formed large affiliates in El Salvador and neighboring countries.
How about General Electric's huge financial affiliate, or the large affiliates of other substantial commercial firms?
Len McCluskey, the leader of Unite – Labour's largest affiliate – has criticised Ed for his approach to austerity and his opposition to a general strike.
Here at the company's largest affiliate, Spring Creek Lodge, the program and its staff have been accused of sexual abuse, physical violence and psychological duress.
And if voters in some battleground areas needed a ride to the polls, television and radio stations owned by Entravision Communications, Univision's largest affiliate, offered those, too.
And on November 12th, he received the endorsements of two large unions, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is the largest affiliate of the AFL-CIO organisation, and the even-more influential American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
Cosatu's largest affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), is considering launching a trade union-based party, aligned with civil society, not unlike Lula da Silva's socialist party in Brazil.
"I think it's going to be a golden opportunity to make us stronger," said Jack Kennedy, the president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, the largest affiliate in the Fed, with 60,000 members.
But WNYC, the principal public radio station in New York and NPR's largest affiliate, has crafted "Pledge This!," a radio comedy about a local station, WACLU ("87.1 -- All the way to the left on your radio dial"), which broadcasts a news-and-dulcimer-music format out of cramped studios in the fictional Blandon Park Mall.
Each of these banks offer personal service plus the opportunity, through the larger affiliate bank, to participate in such things as IPOs.
