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Authorities to launch legal proceedings against entire MS gang

The Minister of Security stated that legal proceedings will commence in the coming days against 494 members of the 32 MS programs and the members of the over 200 cliques of the MS operating throughout the country.

The Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, affirmed on Thursday that legal proceedings will start in the next few days to charge members of the 32 programs and 230 cliques of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) that operated nationwide.

“In recent months, we have been preparing all the legal groundwork to charge the criminal corporation of the MS, those 32 programs operating throughout the country, whom we will process in the coming days, totaling 494 accused, and the largest process the world has known is 434,” stated the official.

Villatoro mentioned that, in addition to members of the 32 programs, they will also initiate charges against members of the 230 cliques that were active throughout Salvadoran territory.

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“The MS had 230 cliques operating throughout the country; that will be the second part of the judicial process we will initiate in the coming days [after accusing the 494 accused of the 32 programs], charging each of the accused of these 230 cliques,” said the Minister of Security.

According to Villatoro, this accusation will reach the seedbed of the 15 program corridors of the MS nationwide, who kept the entire population subdued. He affirmed that all these processes will be achieved thanks to the legal tools provided by the state of exception.

“The last constitutional tool we had to restore the desired Rule of Law was the state of exception, and President Nayib Bukele had the courage to activate it. What the president wants with the initiation of these legal proceedings is to ensure that members of this criminal organization will not leave prison,” pointed out the official.

Villatoro explained that the new legal framework allows gang members who have not been arrested and those abroad to be prosecuted along with the rest who are already in prison.

“Gang members deported from other countries, upon entering El Salvador, will be added to the legal proceedings we will initiate in the coming days,” stated the official.

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Villatoro indicated that, of the 494 gang members who will be prosecuted, the smallest group of all the legal processes to be initiated in the coming days, at least 403 have already been captured.

“403 of those 494 accused who were part of the 32 MS programs have already been captured and are in prison. The remaining 91, who are outside the country, will also receive their sentence and will be fulfilled from the moment they return to the country, regardless of their age,” affirmed the Minister of Security.

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Salvadoran woman decides to return to the country to live in an environment of peace and tranquility

Live a quiet life, full of peace and for your mental and emotional well-being. Those are the main reasons that motivated Cinthia Gracast, creator of content of Salvadoran nationality, to return to the country after several years living in Chicago, United States.

Gracast has published on his social media platforms the step by step of his move to El Salvador, his country of birth and to which he returns after having recently visited him, at which time, he says, he made the decision to return.

The content creator points out that, during her visit to the country, she witnessed the substantial changes that El Salvador has undergone and that have made it the safest country in America. In addition, he remarked how that atmosphere of peace helped to improve his mental and emotional health, which was quite affected during his stay in Chicago.

“I love the lifestyle of El Salvador. As soon as I went, I just fell in love even more. I feel like that’s how you live and here in the United States you live only to work. It’s a routine that’s ruining you. A routine that has had me in depression, in anxiety. It is something that I have fought with alone,” she says in one of her videos, in which she announced her decision to return to the country.

Gracast commented in that publication that he recently visited the country and was able to witness how El Salvador has changed, moving from an environment full of violence to an environment of peace and security, thanks to the transformations driven by the current government of Nayib Bukele.

“When I went to El Salvador this time, I swear that I felt a peace, something changed in me. Being there I felt very good, I felt happy, I didn’t feel any anxiety. I feel that my mental health is priceless and I want to be there (in El Salvador) and I’m going to be there. I know it’s going to be a very good change,” he added in that video.

After this publication, the content creator published several videos showing her moving process. Finally, yesterday he published the video of his first day in El Salvador, showing his followers the preparation of a coffee with Salvadoran tradition, inherited from his grandmother, and highlighting the atmosphere of peace that is currently lived in the country.

El Salvador has undergone a positive change in terms of public safety in the last five years and under the presidential leadership of Nayib Bukele, going from being one of the most violent countries in the world to becoming the safest in America.

During Nayib Bukele’s five-year period, El Salvador has recorded 600 days with zero homicides and has seen the average of violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants categorically reduced, thanks to strategies such as the Territorial Control Plan or the emergency regime still in force in El Salvador, which has allowed the capture of more than 79,000 gang members and criminals.

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President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, promised not to allow the country’s institutions to bow to corruption and impunity.

In his inaugural speech, the new president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, promised not to allow the country’s institutions to bow to corruption and impunity.

With solid support from the people, Arévalo, a 65-year-old sociologist and former diplomat, highlighted the importance of preserving democracy amid global authoritarian challenges.

The president warned about the corrupt cooptation of state institutions by criminal groups and reaffirmed Guatemala’s commitment to the fight against these new forms of authoritarianism.

Arévalo faced a judicial offensive after his unexpected victory in the second presidential round, denouncing an attempted coup d’état.

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Despite the tensions, the president affirmed that Guatemala is closing a step of uncertainty to give way to hope.

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