00:00Hundreds of alleged gang leaders sat before television screens inside El Salvador's notorious
00:06CECOT mega-prison on Thursday as a mass virtual trial got underway, with inmates handcuffed
00:14and ankle-chained.
00:16A Salvadoran court this week began trying more than 486 alleged leaders of the Mara
00:22Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13, in a case involving over 47,000 crimes, prosecutors
00:29say were committed between 2012 and 2022.
00:33Charges include homicide, feminicide, extortion, arms trafficking, forced disappearances and
00:39rebellion, with prosecutors alleging the defendants sought to establish a parallel state through
00:45territorial control.
00:47CECOT's director, Belarmino Garcia, said those being tried were among the most dangerous
00:52figures in the criminal organization.
00:54El tipo de internos que están siendo procesados acá son miembros de la estructura criminal
01:01MS-13, una organización criminal terrorista y dichos sujetos que están acá son aquellos
01:11ranfleros históricos, corredores de programa, corredores de clica, palabreros de clica, sujetos
01:19que por muchos años le ocasionaron luto y dolor a nuestra sociedad.
01:25Dentro de la infraestructura nosotros contamos con una serie de salas de audiencia que nos
01:29permiten desarrollar sin ningún problema una conectividad remota y facilitar asà que se
01:36pueda garantizar el debido proceso a cada uno de los imputados que están en esta audiencia.
01:43The 486 defendants are held across five prisons, with the majority detained at CECOT, the maximum
01:51security facility opened by President Nayib Bukili's administration in 2023.
01:57Human rights groups have described conditions there as inhumane, with allegations of torture,
02:03round-the-clock surveillance and no outside contact permitted, including access to legal counsel.
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02:19La correga del resultado de la circunsvencia que obedece la colonial quella condición del
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