El Salvador: Conservatives Tried to Trade Votes for Gang Truce
El Salvador: Conservatives Tried to Trade Votes for Gang Truce
Published 12 March 2016 (20 hours 58 minutes ago)
The conservative opposition has always strongly criticized the policy of a truce deal with criminal gangs followed by the progressive administration.
A video issued Saturday by local media revealed that members of El Salvador's conservative party attempted to trade a truce with drug gangs if their presidential candidate was elected in 2014.
In the footage, recorded in February, two leaders of the Nationalist Republican Alliance met with representatives of various drug gangs, including MS13 and Barrio 18, informed El Faro.
One of them was legislator Ernesto Muyshondt, then Arena's vice-president, and Arena's mayor of Ilopango Salvador Ruano.
Muyshondt offered gang leaders an end to Zacatecoluca prison's system of maximum security, where the gangs bosses are detained, if Arena's presidential candidate Norman Quijano won the 2014 election.
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