US EditionEl Salvador Sentences Former Officials for Negotiating Electoral Support with Gangs - Latin America Reports
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A sentencing court in El Salvador sentenced former security minister Benito Lara and former government minister Aristides Valencia to 28 years in prison for negotiating electoral favors with the gangs.
El Salvador sentences former officials for negotiating electoral support with gangs - Latin America Reports
A Salvadoran court has convicted three former public officials from the country’s main opposition parties — the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)— for negotiating political support from the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs during the 2014 presidential and 2015 legislative elections. On September 30, the First Sentencing Court of San Salvador sentenced former San Salvador mayor and ex-ARENA …
Mundo, Oct 01, 2025 (ATB Digital).- A court in El Salvador sentenced two former leftist ministers to 28 years in prison for negotiating votes with gangs in the 2014 elections, according to the court ruling known on Tuesday (30.09.2025). Three other defendants, including a former mayor of San Salvador, were sentenced to 18 years in prison for paying the gangs to force voters to support a right-wing party in the 2014 presidential elections and the…
The former deputy of the Farabundo Martí party for National Liberation (FMLN), Benito Lara, said he is innocent and has not committed any crime, after learning of the 28-year prison sentence to be served. Lara said that they will appeal the decision issued by the First Judgment Court of San Salvador. “The judicial system is not doing justice,” he said, while reiterating that the FMLN never agreed with the gangs. However, the former legislator wa…
For having met with the main leaders of the gangs and negotiating votes for the 2014 presidential elections, as well as legislative and municipal elections in 2015, the First Judgment Court of San Salvador has condemned the former mayor of San Salvador Ernesto Muyshondt, former ministers Benito Lara and Aristides Valencia, as well as the gang intermediaries Paolo Lüers and Wilson Alvarado. The judges have decided that with the evidence presented…
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