MS-13

English

Proper noun

MS-13 (uncountable)

1. (organized crime) Mara Salvatrucha, a criminal gang operating in some Salvadoran communities in Central and North America.
   • 2025 January 31, Stefano Pozzebon, “Rubio and Bukele to discuss sending suspected gang members from US to El Salvador”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The executive order specifically named Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran MS-13 gang, citing their “campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally” as threats to “the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”