San Salvador, El Salvador
A man arrested this week for being a member of the MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang among other crimes,...
A man arrested this week for being a member of the MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang among other crimes, flashes his gang's hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador October 12, 2012. The U.S. on Thursday imposed financial penalties on violent Latin American street gang MS-13, which has thousands of members operating in the U.S. and has been accused of human trafficking, kidnapping, murder, rape and other criminal activities. MS-13, whose U.S. members are mostly first-generation Salvadorean-Americans or Salvadorean nationals, was added to the Obama administration's list of transnational criminal organizations - a label designed to cripple a criminal group's finances. REUTERS/Ulises Rodriguez (El SALVADOR - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)