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Members of Mara 18 street gang gesture while inside a maximum security cell within the Torre de Tribunales courthouse in Guatemala City on March 30, 2011. The gang members were sentenced to 47 years in prison for the murder of Jorge Winter, a teacher at the Etapa II correctional facility, during a riot.

Guatemalan gang members flash signs while being sentenced to nearly 50 years in prison for murder

Related to gangs in Guatemala, here's a story about drug trafficking there and another today about the United States working with Guatemalan agents in the arrest of a drug trafficker.

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