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As part of the deportation of alleged terrorists at the heart of the legal and political storm, the US quietly charged with key charges against the leading MS-13 leaders, returning him to the pro-Trump leader in El Salvadoran.
According to current and former US officials and court documents, César Humberto López-Larios, the top leader of the MS-13 gang, who believes that US investigators have information that could corrupt top officials of the Salvador government, believes they have information that could corrupt top officials of the Salvador government.
This is a deal that benefits President Nayib Bukele, the leader of SALVADORAN, who has become a conservative star in Protoulamp.
“He’s my friend,” President Donald Trump said of Buquere in his oval office on Friday.
The deportation is part of a Trump administration’s plan to pay El Salvador to jail immigrants who have been accused of crime and exiled from the United States. The leader agreed, a priority for MS-13 deportation, particularly Salvador and Trump officials.
But accusing MS-13 leaders in the US is a top priority for the Department of Justice, and the move is a potentially significant loss of intelligence for investigators who helped track Lopez Larios for his arrest in Mexico last year, current and former officials say.
“It’s a historic loss,” says a former federal agent who has worked for many years in MS-13 and other gang cases. “He was a potential high-level source, and he will not face justice on us.”
Lopez Larios was arrested last year and was charged by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn with leading transnational gang activities in the United States, El Salvador, Mexico and other countries.
He flew to Central America on Saturday a week ago, along with 22 other MS-13 members, along with El Salvador, along with 238 members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Lagua, held by the US, on a week ago, according to court documents and US officials.
The United States is the subject of a fierce legal and political battle over whether they violated an order from a federal judge who ordered deportation under the alien enemy laws. The White House and allies accused U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of invading Trump’s enforcement and terrorist support.
In San Salvador, the crackdown on gang violence helped him gain popularity, Buquere promotes the intellectual values of Lopez Larios, one of the so-called 12 apostles of the Devil, the gang’s top leadership group.
US prosecutors allege that top gang leaders negotiated deals with the Bukere government to reduce the number of public murders and thereby create the impression of a lower murder rate, according to a 2022 indictment filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
López-Larios’ lawyers, Salvadoran Justice and Foreign Relations Ministries, and the President’s Office, did not respond to requests for comment.
Lopez Larios was a key capture of the Task Force’s Vulcan, formed during his first Trump term and continued by the Biden administration.
Given the seniority of his leadership, sources believe Lopez Larios can provide a window into gang operations in Mexico and the United States, as well as gang members’ dealings with government officials who avoided US prosecution.
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Lopez Larios was awaiting trial in Brooklyn with charges that included material support to terrorists and a conspiracy to attack Narco terrorism. In a letter to a judge overseeing the case, Durham said the United States is allowing El Salvador to pursue a prosecution against Lopez Larios first. (The judge dismissed the case without prejudice.)
The Brooklyn U.S. law firm declined to comment.
The former agent who worked on the investigation into the MS-13 believes Buquere and Salvador officials resisted handing over the gang members to the US, and investigators believe that at least Salvadra officials wanted to ensure that Lopez Larios and other MS-13 members would not cooperate in the investigation into the US.
“It’s about not getting evidence from anyone who can support his work with terrorist organizations,” the former agent said.
MS-13 link from Long Island to El Salvador
In court documents, prosecutors describe a sophisticated leadership structure that allowed 12 apostles of the Devil’s members, including Lopez Larios, to oversee the vast territory that stretches from Long Island, New York, to Southern California and Central America. Prosecutors say there is a leader’s Greenlight murder, supervisor’s drug trafficking and an arms smuggling network.
According to a 2020 federal accusation of MS-13 leaders, including Lopez Larios, filed in Brooklyn, they concluded deals with successive Salvador governments, eliciting better treatment of prison members who were in prison.
This includes the Buquere government, which has formed close ties with conservative figures, such as civilian military contractors Eric Prince and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Bukel, who became president in 2019 and won re-election last year, celebrated Gang Deporties this weekend’s arrival at the country’s infamous prison known as CECOT. He posted social media videos to dramatic music showing handcuffed prisoners, including López-Larios, and marched roughly from aircraft to buses to prison facilities.
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According to another 2022 Brooklyn lawsuit for MS-13 leaders, to allow MS-13 leaders to continue to curb gang operations, gang leaders were negotiated in negotiations between top MS-13 leaders and Buckell government officials, “negotiated for financial interests, territorial control, control of less restrictive prison conditions and less restrictive prison conditions.” The gang leader also “required that the Salvadoran government refuse to hand over the leadership of MS-13,” the indictment said in the US for the charges.
“Instead, MS-13 leaders agreed to reduce the number of public murders in El Salvador that have politically benefited the Salvadoran government by creating an awareness that the government is reducing the rate of murder. Gang leaders also agreed to use their influence to direct gang members and their families to support the idea of Nuevas, according to the party in legislative elections, the indictment said.
After the 2021 election, Bukel’s party won the legislative majority, quickly ousted the country’s attorney general who supported the extradition of the MS-13 gang leaders to the United States and supported members of the Salvador Supreme Court.
In 2021, the US Treasury Department issued sanctions against two Bukere government officials who allegedly involved in negotiating a deal that included financial incentives for another group known as the 18th Avenue gang in exchange for a reduction in MS-13 and violence. “In addition to the Salvador government’s financial allocation in 2020, gangs also received the privilege of leadership of gangs imprisoned in Salvador prisons, including providing mobile phones and prostitutes,” the Ministry of Finance at the time said.
Buquere did not mention Lopez Larios by name, but in a social media post, he said that one of Denners was “a member of the finest structure of criminal organizations.” He added, “This will help us complete our intelligence collection and chase after the last wreckage of the MS-13.”
Three government planes carried deportees on March 15th, and the two carried Tren, the Aragua gang members whose deportations were approved by the call of a law in 1798, which was primarily referred to as the alien enemy law.
The two planes carrying Tren de Aragua’s gang members were already in the air, when US District Judge James Boasberg issued it to halt deportation, according to a filing by Justice Department court. As a result, government lawyers say Boasberg’s order that the plane would turn and return to the US did not apply.
Justice Department lawyers cite national security reasons for refusing to further disclose the third flight carrying MS-13 members. They also say that the plane carrying the MS-13 members carried the exile under another authority not covered by Boasberg’s order to ground the plane.
Bukele appeared to enjoy his role on his part in the Trump administration’s debate against Boasberg’s order.
He reposted a newspaper headline on social media about the judge’s order with laughing emojis and comments.
