Trump Administration tries to dismiss the MS-13 leader's indictment to deport him | Trump Administration

Donald Trump's administration tries to reject criminal charges against a top MS-13 leader in order to deport him to El Salvador, according to the newly uneasy court records of critics and the legal team of the accused that the US president is trying to do a favor for his Salvadorian counterpart, who completed a deal with the gang in 2019.

According to the notes of the Ministry of Justice, the MS-13 number, Vladimir Antonio AREVALO-CHAVEZ, has had intimate knowledge of this secret pact, which he finally fell apart from Salvadora President Nayib Bukele that the government was collapsed to the gang, which from his side with elective with elective Elective supplied with elective with elective.

Attempts by the Trump government to rule out AREVALO-CHAVEZ are part of his own agreement with Bukele so that the USA can detain immigrants in a maximum Salvadorical prison. CNN reported in April that the Bukele government expressly asked that nine leading MS-13 leaders from the USA will be returned to El Salvador.

Critics of Trump, who defend the rights of AREVALO-CHAVEZ, see the move to deport it to prevent him from testifying it before a US court, or as a cooperator of the Federal Government in order to restrict the disclosure of the past connections of the past connections as far as possible.

AREVALO-CHAVE is a member of the “Ranfla Nacional”, which is seen as a kind of director for the MS-13 gang. The federal accusations that are pending in New York include blackmail, terrorism and conspiracy in order to commit narcotic terrorism.

A submission of the US Ministry of Justice from April 1, but only on Thursday, said that the public prosecutor would like to reject the indictment against AREVALO-CHAVEZ for “sensitive and important foreign policy”.

The public prosecutors added that “geopolitical and national security concerns of the United States” and said, “the persecution of the accused of” enabling “the first instance in El Salvador” was also a factor.

AREVALO-CHAVE is still in the USA. His lawyers request further information about the reasons for the dismissal of charges and the intended deportation.

In April, the judge decided not to move him anywhere and prevent him from being put into the care of the US immigration and customs authority (ICE) of the US immigration and customs, which would lead to his deportation.

“The” geopolitical and national security concerns “seem to be an effort of the government to support a” deal “with El Salvador in order to support Bukele in the oppression of the truth about a secret negotiation with MS-13 leaders, in return for our government with El Salvador-Prison,” said Areavalo-Chavez 'legal readiness in a separate registration. In particular, this submission mentioned the notorious Cecot prison, which was built for the alleged gang members.

The US lawyers' office of the eastern federal district in New York, in which Areavalo-Chavez is being pursued under criminal law, rejected it to comment on Friday when he was asked by the guardian. The AREVALO-CHAVEZ lawyers did not answer immediately when asked for comments.

In mid-March, the U.S. Ministry of Justice tacitly dismissed charges against another top ranfla Nacional member and distributed it to El Salvador to be arrested in Cecot, an acronym whose complete name in Spanish means “the terrorism border center”. This other Ranfla leader, Cesar Humberto López-Larios, was charged similarly in New York and, according to reports, also had insights into the deal that Bukele had previously hit the gang.

“This is an agreement between two governments, the USA and El Salvador to cover up a gang pact by dropping charges against well -known gangsters to disappear before they can testify,” said political science professor Michael Ahn Parlberg at Virginia Commonwealth University. “It is a criminal conspiracy between the administrations of Trump and Bukele.

“Irony is both claim to be hard in the crime.”

According to an indictment against the Ministry of Justice, the leadership of MS-13 in 2019 closed a pact with the officials of the administration of Bukele. El Faro, a Salvadoran news organization, reported for the first time about secret meetings, in which the Bukele officers would enter prisons in El Salvador to negotiate directly with the Ranfla leaders.

As part of the deal, MS-13 would receive certain cash and land concessions, while he is ready to reduce the violence that they have inflicted in El Salvador. In addition, some leading MS-13 leaders from prison were released-and the gang promised to use their networks to support the Bukele political party in the 2021 legislative election.

The pact supposedly collapsed in 2022 and led Bukele to massively deal with gangs in the country. Critics say that a so -called state of emergency has led to a trampling of proper procedures and human rights in the Central American nation, and Bukele made it possible to further consolidate the power there.

For years, Bukele has been trying to suppress evidence of his connections to MS-13 by trying to regain Ranfla leader or ignore the US processing inquiries.

The US States' law enforcement agencies have long pursued the criminal networks of MS-13. In 2020 and 2022, two separate federal offers in New York, which accused 27 leaders of the gang, were handed over and not sealed.

In 2021, the US Ministry of Finance sanctioned two top Bukele officials for their alleged “corruption” and said that they had worked on “hidden negotiations between government officials and the criminal organization” to secure the secret pact with MS-13. The finance department also claimed that the management of Bukele offered MS-13 financial incentives to reduce gang violence in exchange for “political support” in 2020.

AREVALO-CHAVEZ, one of the co-accused in the indictment 2022, had “attended negotiations with the government of El Salvador on behalf of MS-13,” said the Ministry of Justice, which was then controlled by Joe Bidens Presidential Administration. AREVALO-CHAVEZ left El Salvador and went to Mexico, where he helped to lead the gang's operations there.

The Mexican government arrested Areavalo-Chavez in February 2023 and quickly turned to the USA, where the FBI and the investigation for the Heimatschutz Authority (HSI) took custody. It is in custody in a federal cherry institution, while his case replaces.

Relations between El Salvador and the USA have improved since Trump took office. In 2021, the tensions between bidges and the Bukele government flammed when Salvadoranian officials left the Ranfla Nacional leader Elmer Canales-Rivera out of the prison, despite an international arrest warrant and delivery application. In a letter from 2023, US prosecutors claimed that he had personally led out of prison by a high-ranking Bukele officer and drove to the Guatemaltec border for his escape.

The bukele debt then tried to regain Canales-Rivera. According to El Faro's reporting, the Bukele government discussed a plan to pay a Mexican cartel to find Canales-Rivera and return it to El Salvador. The Mexican government found him first, arrested him and distributed him to the United States in November 2023.

Eight Ranfla Nacional leaders remained in US custody after López-Larios One had been excluded in March. Two of them guilty at the beginning of this year.