The defendants were organizing two caravans that would leave today and tomorrow, according to the Prosecution. In 2018, thousands of Salvadorans traveled to the United States en masse, in the so-called caravans following the example of thousands of Hondurans
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has reported this morning on the arrest of three people as suspects in the crime of acts of promotion of the illegal human trafficking. The captured have been identified as Juan Rufino Ramírez Villalobos, Fátima de la Rosario Pérez Treasurer and José Eusebio insured Ayala.
According to information provided by the prosecution, the detainees were the administrators of groups on WhatsAppp that they had created in order to promote caravans of Salvadorans who would leave between today and tomorrow, with the intention of arriving in the United States.
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In the case of Insured Ayala, the Prosecutor’s Office captured him today at 4:30 am in Plaza Les Americas or Salvador del Mundo. Investigations reveal that in December 2021, he created a WhatsApp group in which he incited people to be part of the caravan of migrants to the United States.
As for Ramírez Villalobos and Pérez Tresorer, the Public Prosecutor’s Office states that in addition to promoting the caravan via WhatsApp, through the same application they gave instructions to people interested in traveling, to buy a land transport package that included a test of COVID-19.
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They also guided a group of people from different parts of the country to the Terminal de Occident where they were told which company to buy transport tickets to Guatemala with, where they would join the Honduran caravan. which would also leave this country on the same dates.