Deputy Buckele after news of gang leader’s recapture: “It’s an honor to get busted” | My Salvatrucha | Latest | the world

President of savior and a candidate for immediate re-election, Deputy BukeleThis Saturday confirmed that it is “honored to receive their attacks” after a publication by the digital newspaper El Faro said that the government is “willing to pay the Mexican cartels to recapture the leader of the gang.”

This is the gang leader Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), aka ‘Crook’ He was arrested in Mexico in November of last year and extradited to the United States, where he was wanted by a judge.

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According to local media publications, the gang member has been identified as Elmer Canales Rivera, who will be taken from a prison in El Salvador and the Central American country by officials of the presidential government. Bukele.

“After two years of illegally freeing him, the Salvadoran government has launched a desperate race to recapture Crook and return him to El Salvador before the February 2024 elections,” El Faro said in its release released Friday.

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According to the media, the government “was willing to pay a million dollars to the powerful Mexican cartel Jalisco Nueva Generation to kidnap the gang leader and deliver him – preferably alive – to a secret location.”

Bukele reacted to his account on social networks before the February 4 election.

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“It is an honor to receive your attacks,” the Salvadoran president added in his message. “I would be concerned if they were on our side.”

the lighthouse In his journalistic note, he claims that there are audios and messages on the phone in his possession, which “reveal that the Govt. Bukele “Try to Recapture Gang Leader Crook.”

The media also claims to verify that the head of an elite division of the National Civil Police (PNC) “was involved for several months in 2023 in conversations with coyotes and fugitive gang leaders, to whom they disclosed intelligence, paid travel expenses. And “they allowed Crook to release his sister in exchange for negotiating with the Jalisco Nueva Generation cartel to recapture him.”

According to another publication by ‘Crook’ the lighthouseHe would have been released from a maximum security prison in Salvador in November 2021, despite the US requesting his extradition.

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El Faro, in a July 2022 publication, revealed that the gang member “lived in a luxury apartment located in a building in the Escalon neighborhood of San Salvador between November 2021 and January 2022 and was taken to Guatemala. The official vehicle will later flee to Mexico.”

According to the local press, ‘Crook’ is one of them 14 Historical Ringleaders of MS-13 That the United States wants to try him for terrorism.

In 2015, the United States sanctioned three MS-13 leaders, including Canales Rivera, and froze all assets under the jurisdiction as part of efforts to end the illegal activities of transnational criminal organizations that threaten national security, foreign policy, and the country’s economy.