Bukele Blocked Investigations Of MS-13

 

One of the corrupt Malignant Fascist's favorite dictators is El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, whom the MF has called "one hell of a president." Bukele has been building high security prisons in his country to house domestic criminals and violent gang members from the U.S. Given the MF's reckless anti-immigrant dragnet, they're also housing people who haven't committed violent crimes, and who were denied the right of due process 

ProPublica has a well-researched and explosive report on how the MF's best bud Bukele interfered with earlier U.S. probes into the Salvadoran gang MS-13, which undermines the image of the Salvadoran dictator that the MF wanted to cultivate:

"A long-running U.S. investigation of MS-13 has uncovered evidence at odds with Bukele’s reputation as a crime fighter. The inquiry, which began as an effort to dismantle the gang’s leadership, expanded to focus on whether the Bukele government cut a secret deal with MS-13 in the early years of his presidency.

New reporting on that investigation by ProPublica shows that senior officials in Bukele’s government repeatedly impeded the work of a U.S. task force as it pursued evidence of possible wrongdoing by the Salvadoran president and his inner circle.

Bukele’s allies secretly blocked extraditions of gang leaders whom U.S. agents viewed as potential witnesses to the negotiations and persecuted Salvadoran law enforcement officials who helped the task force, according to exclusive interviews with current and former U.S. and Salvadoran officials, newly obtained internal documents and court records from both countries.

In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to the gang as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes and reduced homicide rates. In 2021, agents drew up a request to review U.S. bank accounts held by Salvadoran political figures to look for evidence of money laundering related to the suspected diversion of U.S. funds. The list of names assembled by the agents included Bukele, senior officials and their relatives, according to documents viewed by ProPublica." (our emphasis)

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the lawless, felonious MF would have affinity with a sketchy dictator from Central America: it's the kind of corrupt authoritarian ruler that he admires and hopes to emulate. It's almost certain that the MF was made aware at some point of the evidence of Bukele's  corruption involving MS-13 bribes with U.S. aid funds, and chose to ignore it so that he could continue shoveling immigrants into Bukele's prison gulag. ProPublica's report is a must read, and contributes to our understanding of the MF's own corrupt actions and associations.

(photo: Bukele and the MF share a chuckle)