Twenty-Seven MS-13 Bosses as Pawns between Bukele and Trump

One of these men, according to information not confirmed by the Salvadoran government, died; eight remain in the United States, awaiting trial or deportation back to Bukele; and 18 are purportedly imprisoned in Bukele’s jails, although there have been no public images of them under the state of exception. The case files across two countries of these 27 veteran leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13, accused in the United States of terrorism, show abundant evidence of the secret agreements they sustained with the Bukele administration for years.