03/02/2020 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analysis - Tip of the Iceberg: Former El Salvador Presidential Candidate Accused of Negotiating with Gangs
The top prosecutor in El Salvador has asked congress to strip immunity from a legislator he says negotiated with gangs for political benefit during the 2014 presidential election.
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23/09/2018 | Transparencia
Análisis - 4 consecuencias de la guerra Morales-CICIG en Guatemala
La decisión del presidente Jimmy Morales de no renovar el mandato de la CICIG y de prohibir la entrada al país de su jefe, el comisionado Iván Velásquez, que es el más reciente capítulo de la guerra entre el mandatario y el organismo anticorrupción, ya está teniendo consecuencias para la seguridad en Guatemala.
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13/07/2018 | Transparencia
Guatemala - Departamento de Estado descarta influencia rusa en lucha anticorrupción en Guatemala
La guerra a muerte que el presidente de Guatemala ha emprendido contra la comisión internacional que abandera la lucha contra la corrupción en su país, la CICIG, volvió al Congreso de Estados Unidos durante una audiencia del Comité de Exteriores de la Cámara de Representantes.
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25/06/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analysis - Soccer: The Tainted King of Sports Takes the World Stage
The Russia 2018 World Cup has begun. But behind the much awaited games are the stains of corruption and ties to organized crime tarnishing the most popular, and money generating sport in the world.
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05/10/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
EEUU enjuicia a pandillero de la MS13 acusado de dirigir 'programa' Costa Este desde El Salvador
El Departamento de Justicia acusó la semana pasada en Boston al salvadoreño Edwin Mancía Flores, alias "Shugar", de asociaciones ilícitas y conspiración relacionads a una organización de crimen organizado, la pandilla MS13. No es, dicen las autoridades estadounidenses, un pandillero cualquiera: el Shugar, líder de la clica Everett Locos Salvatruchos, dirige desde una cárcel salvadoreña el intento de la MS13 por consolidar su presencia en la costa Este de Estados Unidos.
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30/09/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US Accuses MS13 Member of Directing East Coast Gang Cells From El Salvador
On September 20 in a Boston federal court, the US Department of Justice charged Edwin Mancía Flores, alias "Shugar," with involvement in a racketeering conspiracy related to the MS13 gang. But US authorities say that Mancía isn't just any gang member. In fact, they accuse the leader of the MS13's Everett Loco Salvatrucha "clique" of directing the gang's efforts to consolidate its presence on the US East Coast from a prison in El Salvador.
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19/08/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
After El Salvador Gang Truce Trial, 5 Doubts Remain
Carlos Eduardo Burgos Nuila, alias "Nalo," is a leader of El Salvador's Barrio 18 Revolucionarios gang. He is currently confined to pretrial detention on charges of illicit association and has become Attorney General Douglas Meléndez's star witness in the trial for the so-called "Truce Case," in which 18 mid-level Salvadoran officials are accused of smuggling cell phones and other items into prisons, and of committing arbitrary acts within the framework of the pact between the Salvadoran state and the Barrio 18 and MS13 gangs between 2012 and 2013.
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22/06/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US Reverses Course in CentAm with Heavy-Handed 'Drug War' Approach
In a meeting held with the presidents of the Northern Triangle countries of Central America last week in Miami, the administration of US President Donald Trump reiterated that henceforth the focus of bilateral relations will be prioritizing heavy-handed approaches to the so-called "drug war" and illegal migration to the United States stemming from the region, with little significance being given to the allocation of development funds.
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14/06/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Nariño, Colombia: Ground Zero of the Cocaine Trade
The department of Nariño in southwest Colombia is the main coca-producing area in the country and in the world. It is a place scarred by poverty and years of armed conflict between guerrillas, the state and paramilitary groups.
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20/04/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
7 Things the Trump Administration Gets Wrong about MS13
US President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions launched a rhetorical campaign this week against the MS13, one of the most violent gangs in Central America. But the verbal offensive by the president and the attorney general, as well as their statements on the origins and evolution of the gang, are for the most part false or misleading.
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10/04/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Salvador Arrests 'Chepe Diablo,' Investigates Ties with Vice President
El Salvador's Attorney General's Office arrested José Adán Salazar Umaña, alias "Chepe Diablo," the alleged leader of the Texis Cartel, the most important drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the country. The arrest raises new questions about the links between Salazar Umaña and powerful politicians in El Salvador, including current Vice President Óscar Ortiz.
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02/02/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Negotiations Between El Salvador Govt, MS13 Prove Elusive
The administration of El Salvador President Salvador Sánchez Cerén insists that it will not negotiate with the MS13 gang, which made a public proposal at the beginning of January that included its own dismantlement. The most recent signals coming from the government suggest that the proposal won't be taken seriously. Nonetheless, there are also indications that parallel attempts at dialogue could be made.
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11/12/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In About-Face, El Salvador Govt Reopens 'Chepe Diablo' Case
When Luis Martínez was the Attorney General in 2015, he ordered his subordinates to shelve the money laundering investigation against businessman José Adán Salazar Umaña.
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27/04/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Prominent El Salvador Businessman Tied to Suspected Drug Planes
The Martin County Sheriff's Office in Florida has filed a probable cause petition asking a judge to ratify the forfeiture of four aircraft authorities say belong to the prominent El Salvador businessman José Enrique Rais after drug sniffing dogs alerted them to three of the aircraft that they say were improperly registered in the United States.
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30/10/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Diagnosing El Salvador's Snowden Syndrome
This is a story about El Salvador's Edward Snowdens, a group of police officers under investigation for leaking confidential documents, even as authorities refuse to investigate the head of the country's powerful Texis Cartel.
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21/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Purging El Salvador's National Police: Mission Impossible
In the past fortnight, two newspaper articles have sought to address impunity within El Salvador's Civil National Police (PNC). One revealed the links between a Texis Cartel associate and the PNC's sub-director of Investigations, the other highlighted how many among the PNC's high command rose through the ranks despite questions over the academic qualifications which are essential requirements for their positions.
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28/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Salvador Soccer Scandal is a 'Metaphor for the Country'
In August this year, the sports magazine El Grafico published a story that shook the country: a player from the national soccer team, speaking anonymously, claimed that an international match fixing ring led by a Singaporean criminal known as Dan Tan had paid seven players $10,000 to throw an El Salvador international game.
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16/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
UN Confirms Links Between El Salvador's Perrones and Pacific Cartel
A UNODC report states that the Pacific Cartel, a federation formed by Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel, has formed alliances with El Salvador's Perrones transport group, confirming information that has been circulating unaddressed in Salvadoran intelligence reports for years.
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07/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'El Burro' Herrera: The Tip of the Iceberg in El Salvador?
Security forces sources in El Salvador and the United States say the arrest of alleged criminal kingpin "El Burro" Herrera is the result of a long running investigation that goes to the heart of Central America's infamous Texis Cartel.
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26/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Many Faces of MS-13 Arms Supplier 'Medio Millon'
When the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on six Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13, only one of them is described outright as a "narcotics trafficker." Analyst Hector Silva examines the criminal history of one of these men, known as alias "Medio Millon," and his many faces: an alleged businessman who has long faced scrutiny, an alleged member of an MS-13 faction, and a drug supplier.
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14/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
UN Highlights Salvadoran Narcos' Political Connections
In contrast to other territorial criminal organizations, El Salvador's drug trafficking groups do not resort to violence because they can count on the protection of corrupt state officials, says the United Nations.
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25/01/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Heirs to El Salvador's Cocaine Trade: A Christmas Meeting
Two days before Christmas Eve 2012, a group of gang members and state intelligence agents met with the Flores Escobar brothers, nephews of Reynerio Flores Lazo, the jailed boss of the Perrones drug trafficking organization, and the heirs to the cocaine trafficking business in eastern El Salvador.
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