Sant Salvador.
The Government of the Savior held in 2020 negotiations with the colles Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) i Barri 18 -fractions Southerners and revolutionaries- to reduce the figures of homicide and “try hide evidence “, according to an investigation published this Monday by The Lighthouse.
“The director of Penitentiary Centers (Osiris Moon) Ordered to withdraw hundreds of novelty books and computers from maximum security prisons; and the prosecutor (Rodolfo Delgado), imposed by the pro-government Assembly, dismantled the panel investigating these negotiations “, Indicates the digital diary in a long text.
He points out that the prosecutors in charge of the investigation christened the case as Cathedral i confiscate official documents from Penitentiary Centers after this medium published, in September 2020, that the Government had been negotiating with the MS13.
Until April 2021, the Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Raúl Melara, “It was a process of criminal investigation against various Government officials of Here’s to see and for months the prosecutors telephones intervened, they physically tracked, confiscated documents, took pictures i interview witnesses “, Aim.
However, on May 1, the Legislative Assembly, which took office that day, dismissed Melara i appointed Prim as the new prosecutor, who, according to the investigation of the Lighthouse, “Over the weeks I would dismantle the unit that got the findings “.
The tax investigation was conducted, in accordance with the environment, by the Special Anti-Mafia Group (GEA), led by Germán Arriaza and who selected four prosecutors to join a team and investigate negotiations between politicians of the opposition Front Farabundo Martí for National Liberation (FMLN) and gangs.
“Following the September 2020 publication on the negotiations between the Government of Bukele and MS13, the GEA also initiated investigations in this regard (…) but the GEA was eliminated after former prosecutor Arriaza resigned because Delgado ordered him to move from the unit, “he said.
The digital newspaper notes that he obtained part of the case file Cathedral in which the above-mentioned findings are recorded, he analyzed pictures, Contrasted with the documents of Penitentiary Centers obtained previously, consulted sources with knowledge of the negotiations and sought the official reaction of the government officials, without getting an answer.
NEGOTIATION WITH NEIGHBORHOOD 18 AND DEMANDS
In September last year, El Far published an investigation in which it was revealed that the Government of I’ll see held negotiations with the gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) to reduce the homicide figures since June 2019 and to gain electoral support in the elections of February 2021, in which the president won the Presidency.
In this new text, the digital newspaper claims that these negotiations also included the gang Barri 18 –Southern and revolutionary factions- and indicates that the gangs “raised a number of requests which include improvements in prison living conditions and benefits for their free members “.
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Fill 19 requests that “they refer to the life (of the gang members) inside the prisons and the rest are requests to improve the life of the gang members a freedom and theirs families“, Add.
Last year, I’ll see said the investigation of The lighthouse was “fake” and noted that his Government is criticized, even by international bodies, for the measures implemented in prisons, such as sealing cells with metal plates to keep them isolated after an escalation of homicides between April and May 2020.
The Executive of I’ll see has been implementing the Territorial Control Plan (PCT) since 2019, to which it attributes the fall in murders in recent years. EFE