Each gang has its own unique culture - from symbolic colors to body art and hand signs. For members of Bloods-affiliated gangs, the color red has particularly special meaning. The members of MS-13 - ...

In the photo, a 'Mara Salvatrucha' leader shows the hand signs that represent his group, inside a prison cell in El Salvador, in 2014. Jan Sochor/Getty Images ...

Gang members use hand signals such as the symbol for a devil’s horn to greet each other, and initiation to become a full gang member involves being kicked and beaten. A Mara Salvatrucha member ...

some of the hand gestures seen in the photo are used as gang signs for MS-13. According to the Department of Justice, “MS-13, which is short for La Mara Salvatrucha, is a gang composed primarily ...

Due to the criminal activities of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang (M-18), the two major street gangs in El Salvador, the country has fallen into the spiral of fear, violence and death.