- hace 1 semana
Categoría
📚
AprendizajeTranscripción
00:09If anyone ever wants to build a case against Nayib Bukele for his pact with Mara Salvatrucha,
00:15I think that's the key.
00:17There is clear proof and evidence that Bukele's government was making deals with him.
00:23He doesn't get paid, he doesn't get paid.
00:26They have this idea that we have a pact and that we give them benefits.
00:31Can anyone believe that's real? Does anyone believe that?
00:36Bukele is an extremely authoritarian character.
00:39He divides the world into those who are for him and those who are against him.
00:43You know what? I don't care if he calls me a dictator.
00:46Mr. President, I don't know about religion, we elected you.
00:49They took him away alive! We want him back alive!
00:53I don't know if my son is alive, if my son is dead.
00:58The problem is that now we are no longer victims of gangs, we are victims of the State.
01:03I am innocent! There are no institutions that guarantee rights!
01:08Over the years, he has shown to bear a strong resemblance to these people of the past.
01:13Long live Comerciale!
01:14We're not talking about corruption because some money was stolen.
01:18It's not enough!
01:20The Trump administration destroyed the MS-13 trial to benefit Nayib Bukele and avoid implicating him.
01:25issues.
01:27Because nobody has the right to be corrupt.
01:30Let no one think that he is untouchable.
01:44The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, stands out as one of the most popular leaders in the Western Hemisphere.
01:51Having substantially reduced crime rates in a country that used to be among the most violent in the world,
01:58has made him a global political benchmark.
02:01But behind those achievements lie dark and little-known stories.
02:06Good night.
02:07I am Ilia Calderón.
02:09For months, the NMAS Univision Investiga team delved into Bukele's past and present.
02:15Gerardo Reyes, team director.
02:17Gerardo, thank you for being here.
02:19Can you explain the scope of this investigation to us?
02:21Good evening, Ilia.
02:22That's how it is.
02:23During all these months we had access to hundreds of documents,
02:27We interviewed multiple sources
02:29and with the collaboration of reporters from El Faro, in El Salvador,
02:34we managed to create this dual profile,
02:37which shows, on the one hand, the figure of a charismatic politician,
02:41revered for his achievements and considered by Trump as one of his favorite people,
02:47And on the other hand, the face of a politician who negotiates in the shadows with the gangs,
02:52He celebrates being called a dictator and prefers to bury him in oblivion.
02:56the benefit he once derived from the government of Hugo Chávez.
03:00That's precisely the story with which we begin this special program.
03:07Carolina Chávez Ramírez, also known as Bombón,
03:11She poses relaxed in an apartment in a residential area of San Salvador,
03:16capital of El Salvador.
03:17In a video he uploaded to his Instagram,
03:20It can be seen in different areas of the place,
03:22while a ballad plays, celebrating that everything already feels like Christmas.
03:30The woman captures the image of a man whose face she could not completely cover with hearts.
03:37The man waves.
03:39These images were recorded in November 2021.
03:43The man who seems so calm is Mercanales Rivera,
03:46alias Hollywood Crook,
03:48a powerful gang leader who at that time
03:51He was wanted for extradition by the United States government
03:55for narco-terrorism and faced an Interpol red notice.
04:02Canales should be in a high-security prison in El Salvador.
04:07where he was serving a sentence.
04:10But in a decision that still haunts the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele,
04:15The gang member was released.
04:18Crook was illegally released from jail
04:21when he still had 40 years left on his sentence for various crimes
04:25that involved rapes, homicides, and extortion of Salvadorans.
04:32The release of alias Crook also implied an open challenge
04:37to Donald Trump's first term
04:40for whom Salvadoran gangs represented the greatest threat
04:45to the internal security of the United States.
04:54I believe the man released from the Zacatecoluca prison, the maximum security one,
04:58We discovered it because suddenly there were official communications from the judge handling his case.
05:01saying where is the man I have to keep judging.
05:04The man was on the street and the government never explained why they released him.
05:12Court documents and interviews obtained by Enemás Univision Investiga
05:17and the newspaper El Faro indicate that the Bukele government
05:21He had been negotiating with the gangs in the shadows.
05:24to reduce the levels of violence in what was then
05:28one of the countries with the highest homicide rates in the world.
05:33The complicity of the Bukele government in these negotiations
05:37It's not just part of a journalistic narrative.
05:41It is included in an indictment against Canales
05:44in the Federal Court of the Western District of New York.
05:47I am John Durham, I am the actor from the United States
05:49for the Western District of New York.
05:51The prosecutor in the case, John Durham, wrote in November 2023
05:56that despite the request for an Interpol red notice
06:00and the pending extradition request,
06:03Canales Rivera was released by the Salvadoran government.
06:08After his release, he adds, he was escorted from prison
06:12by high-ranking Salvadoran officials,
06:14staying in a luxury apartment and other facilities.
06:18He is living proof of Bukele's pacts, and they have him here in the United States.
06:23If anyone ever wants to build a case against Nayib Bukele
06:27because of his pact with Mara Salvatrucha,
06:29which is the only gang that the United States is really interested in,
06:32I think that's the key.
06:33He knows how all the pacts were made,
06:35but there is also conclusive proof and evidence
06:39that Bukele's government was making a deal with him.
06:42Oscar Martínez is a journalist for El Faro,
06:46a well-known digital newspaper in El Salvador
06:48who has denounced the corruption of the governments of the Central American country
06:52for 27 years.
06:54Forgiving the criminal is condemning the victims.
06:58Nayib Bukele is the most popular president in the Western Hemisphere.
07:04for having converted El Salvador
07:07in one of the countries with the fewest homicides in the world.
07:12The president didn't become religious, we elected him.
07:16Much of what he promised he has done.
07:18We live abroad, we are happy to come to our country.
07:25It's a statistically overwhelming popularity.
07:28that the president is using as a shield,
07:31According to analysts, to take dictatorial measures.
07:34Bukele is an extremely authoritarian figure,
07:38It divides the world into those who are in favor of him,
07:40in those who are against it.
07:41They have absolutely no respect for human rights.
07:46I have personally been called a dictator
07:47in all the media outlets they wanted and were able to use.
07:51For Bukele, human rights are just a pretext.
07:54to defend criminals and corrupt officials.
07:57But the human rights of honest people are more important.
07:59Because otherwise, then we're not talking about human rights.
08:02We are talking about the rights of criminals.
08:04In fact, he proclaimed himself the coolest dictator in the whole wide world.
08:09Douglas Farah, who has been a consultant to the Pentagon,
08:12He sees a bleak future for the country's democracy.
08:15His idea is to cling to power for as long as he can.
08:21Jessica Ábalos is a journalist who has managed to stay in El Salvador
08:26despite the publication of reports that question Bukele's government.
08:30How do you cope with the fact that there's a country outside?
08:34who overwhelmingly supports President Bukele's actions?
08:41I always try to understand why people continue to love and idolize
08:45to a person who is repeating practices that he questioned.
08:49I announce to the Salvadoran people that I have decided to run as a candidate
08:52to the presidency of the Republic.
08:55The president sold himself as something completely new.
08:59who was going to put an end to the old politics,
09:01with the politicians of the past, with what he called the same old faces,
09:05but which over the years has proven to be very similar
09:09to these people of the past.
09:11Martínez and most of his colleagues at the Lighthouse
09:14They live in exile after suffering a campaign of judicial persecution.
09:19I will prove my innocence.
09:21Returning to their country doesn't seem like an option.
09:23They fear they could end up in jail
09:26under false accusations, as happened with activist Ruth López.
09:30I am innocent.
09:31What else have they told you?
09:32There are no institutions that guarantee rights.
09:35She became the most critical voice
09:38of all human rights violations
09:40and also chairs the anti-corruption unit of Christ Salt,
09:43an organization that has had to leave the country due to the same harassment.
09:47God and truth are with me.
09:49López faces charges of embezzlement and illicit enrichment,
09:53whose details have not been revealed by the government.
09:56Those persecuted are not just social leaders.
10:00Wow, look, we have more than 5,000 people.
10:03All 5,000 people have reported the arbitrary arrests.
10:07My greatest fear as a mother is that my son is dead.
10:11and they're telling me he's alive.
10:13They took him away alive!
10:15Human rights organizations
10:17such as the Movement of Victims of the Regime
10:19directed by Samuel Ramírez
10:21They continue to receive complaints from mothers
10:24who don't know if their children are alive.
10:27We want them alive!
10:29Some have been arrested for more than two years.
10:31on suspicion of belonging to gangs,
10:34But nobody agrees with them.
10:36That's what I'm wondering, why?
10:39At what point did we fall?
10:40in this abyss where we have no
10:43Is there no one to listen to us?
10:45Until August 2025,
10:47The government had released 8,000 young people
10:50who turned out to be innocent,
10:52according to this former congressman who defends Bukele.
10:558,000 people who were freed
10:59for not having links to gangs.
11:01In other words, that's 8,000 mistakes by the justice system.
11:05Not exactly mistakes.
11:07Perhaps I could say bad procedures.
11:12The lighthouse rebuilt the route
11:14of Canales' assisted escape.
11:17For some reason, they move him to Guatemala.
11:20We don't know why the government released him.
11:22This image was posted by Canales' couple.
11:25It was the definitive clue
11:27to identify the gang member,
11:29his arm tattooed with the face of a woman.
11:36The photographs of the windows
11:38allowed journalists to establish
11:41that the couple was staying
11:43in this building north of San Salvador.
11:47Canales crossed the border into Guatemala.
11:50His wife continued to leave mementos
11:52of the journey of freedom
11:54on their social media,
11:56including the stop
11:57in a roadside restaurant.
11:59We were able to identify
12:00a dining room where they eat the border
12:02for the tablecloth and for the menu
12:04that appears in the photo.
12:06The unusual event that occurred
12:08with Cruc on the border with Guatemala
12:10This is how the New York District Attorney's Office describes it.
12:14He was given a weapon during the journey.
12:17and then he was transported
12:18to the Guatemalan border
12:20where arrangements were made
12:21for a human trafficker
12:23introduce Canales Rivera
12:26illegally in Guatemala.
12:28El Salvador never objected
12:30the version of the New York Prosecutor's Office.
12:33But what traces had he left?
12:36Bukele's government
12:37in the release of the criminal?
12:39That's Bukele and the gangs.
12:40The journalists revealed
12:42a recording that has not been denied
12:44and from which they deduced
12:46that Carlos Marroquín,
12:48Bukele's official
12:49in charge of dealing with gangs,
12:52He admitted that he had freed Cruc
12:54to take it to Guatemala.
12:56The recording refers to
12:58to the gang leader as an old man.
13:00I got the old man out of the closet, brother.
13:03in a way to help them all
13:05and to demonstrate my loyalty and trust to them.
13:07Well, I went to get it myself there.
13:09And I went to Guatemala myself.
13:11I face a lot of people,
13:13especially to politicians.
13:14That I always speak frankly,
13:15Well, I'm a legendary rapper.
13:17Marroquín, a former singer
13:19Christian hip hop,
13:20He never denied the recordings.
13:23Today I hear a lot of people complaining
13:25on the topic of violence.
13:26He was sanctioned by the Department
13:28of the Treasury in 2021
13:30for facilitating secret meetings
13:32with gang leaders imprisoned.
13:35I think I entered this sector
13:36He's not going to come out again.
13:37For the same reason
13:38Osiris Luna was sanctioned,
13:40director of the prisons
13:42and Bukele's deputy minister of justice.
13:45Both remain in government.
13:47The Treasury statement
13:49reporting on the sanctions
13:51He reiterated that the meetings
13:53were part of the efforts
13:55of the government of El Salvador
13:57to negotiate a secret truce
14:00with gang leadership.
14:02They say we vote with gangs.
14:04Can anyone believe that's real?
14:06Does anyone believe that?
14:09Romeo Aubergh,
14:10political analyst and supporter of Bukele,
14:13He explains his version of events.
14:14The opposition says
14:16Nayib released him.
14:18What happened there was that
14:19He had a trial.
14:21in which he could be released,
14:24But he had another sentence.
14:26So, in jail
14:28He took his release order
14:29And they let him go.
14:31We were going to call him Class Clown
14:33And he said no,
14:34that his dad was going to see him
14:36and that he was ashamed
14:37and then they should label him a terrorist.
14:44Ever since I was in high school,
14:46Nayib Bukele gave signs
14:48that his future lay in politics.
14:50Based on images from his adolescence
14:52never before seen,
14:54Gerardo Reyes tells us
14:55the family history
14:57and the first incursions
14:59of the young leftist in politics.
15:02Nayib Armando Bukele Ortega, Mr.
15:05Nayib Armando Bukele Ortega
15:07He graduated in 1999
15:09at the Pan-American School of San Salvador,
15:13a private bilingual school
15:14upper middle class
15:15where he forged friendships
15:17who accompany him in his presidency today.
15:20His friends and teachers from that time
15:22He is remembered for being
15:24the class clown.
15:25He did imitations of Kiko,
15:28from El Chavo del Ocho,
15:29because he had cheeks,
15:30then she puffed out her cheeks.
15:33Natalia del Cid Cuagado imitates.
15:37Natalia del Cid was a primary school classmate
15:39and Bukele's secondary school.
15:41She recalls that since adolescence
15:43Bukele liked to play politics.
15:46He knew what he wanted to do from a young age.
15:49Why? How is that reflected?
15:51Because they were shaking hands like I was inaugurating a new construction project.
15:54or the politician's greeting
15:56and the other one pretended to be the photographer.
15:58Bukele's best friends
16:00They were then Fernando López Larreinaga,
16:03today Minister of the Environment,
16:04and Federico Anlíquer,
16:06President of the Port Executive Commission.
16:09They had a group, right?
16:11Yeah.
16:11What was the name of the group?
16:13Elite group type.
16:14I don't know what it means.
16:16I don't know why they were acting like that.
16:17But was he an average student?
16:19Or was he a bad student?
16:21No, it was...
16:22I'd say bad, rather.
16:24He said so himself,
16:25I was telling the teacher
16:26that he shouldn't leave the homework for Monday
16:28because he wanted to enjoy his weekend,
16:30that he preferred it to be for Tuesday.
16:32In the graduation yearbook,
16:35his colleagues originally named him
16:37the class clown,
16:39Class Clown,
16:40But he objected.
16:41We were going to call it Class Clown
16:43And he said no,
16:44that his dad was going to see him
16:46and that he was ashamed
16:47and then they should call it Class Terrorist.
16:51The teammates accepted the nickname
16:53that he wanted,
16:54class terrorist,
16:55and so it was reflected in the yearbook.
16:58The nickname had its own story.
17:01Buchanan explained
17:02to his school friends
17:03that he had chosen
17:04the nickname of terrorist of the class
17:07because around those days
17:08they had interrogated him
17:09El Salvador airport authorities
17:12upon his return from a trip to Miami.
17:14There were several reports during those days
17:17of terrorist attacks
17:18to the United States embassies.
17:22When he said
17:22How old is 17?
17:24And they turned to look at each other.
17:25immigration officials,
17:26They felt sorry for them.
17:26and they let him into the country.
17:28Ah, it didn't bother him.
17:29No, it made him laugh a lot.
17:31if he told us
17:32as well as an anecdote,
17:33as a source of pride
17:34that they had profiled me.
17:37On the same page,
17:38Bukele,
17:39then 18 years old,
17:41wrote
17:41A schoolboy's ink
17:43It is like the blood of a martyr.
17:45A quote from the prophet Muhammad,
17:47the founder of Islam.
17:52Bukele was no stranger to Islam.
17:54At the graduation ceremony
17:56He was accompanied by his father,
17:57Armando Bukele Catán,
17:59a prosperous businessman
18:00of Palestinian origin
18:01who became
18:02From Christianity to Islam
18:04and became a magnet
18:06or leader of Islam
18:07in El Salvador.
18:09The entrance to heaven
18:11It was guaranteed.
18:12One of the half-brothers
18:13from President Bukele
18:14who continued the work
18:16of spreading Islam
18:17in El Salvador
18:18He remembers it.
18:20He wasn't ashamed
18:21to say that he was Muslim.
18:22In fact,
18:23He said it with pride.
18:24From the pulpit
18:25from their social media,
18:27Emerson is today
18:28a fierce critic of Trump
18:30and the Israeli Prime Minister
18:32Benjamin Netanyahu.
18:33In one of his essays
18:35from Facebook
18:36that accompanied
18:37with this illustration
18:38wrote
18:38To Netanyahu
18:39He cares about only one thing,
18:41that the war does not end,
18:43because when it's over
18:44His reign also ends.
18:46That could,
18:47perhaps in the future,
18:49to cause Nayib Bukele
18:52disadvantages.
18:53It is known that in the United States
18:55in the government of Donald Trump
18:57There are some ideologues
18:59who are anti-Muslim.
19:01New paragraph.
19:02Bukele's father
19:05who died in 2015
19:06at 70 years old
19:08He founded the first
19:09Mosque of El Salvador
19:11in this place,
19:13The Mosque of Light.
19:15Armando Bukele
19:16always showed up
19:18like a man of the left.
19:19Warm regards
19:21to all my friends
19:22and friends
19:22declaring concepts.
19:24In his weekly monologue
19:26questioned
19:27US politics
19:28and Trump's mental health.
19:30If McCain had won
19:31I was thinking about it
19:33And he said so.
19:33when he was a candidate.
19:34If I win,
19:35I invaded Venezuela.
19:36Let's not even mention Trump today.
19:39This is a little crazy
19:40and racist.
19:45Armando Bukele
19:46was a witness
19:47and in a way
19:48protagonist
19:49of the civil war
19:50from El Salvador.
19:52The Faraundo Martí Front
19:54of National Liberation
19:55FMLN,
19:57a guerrilla coalition
19:58from the left,
19:59sought to throw
20:00to a fearsome board
20:02government
20:02civic-military
20:03backed
20:05by the United States.
20:06His sympathy
20:08It went beyond
20:09of an identification
20:10ideological,
20:11but also
20:12He gave money
20:13for the combatants.
20:15Clear,
20:16I had, let's say
20:16an affinity
20:18militant
20:19with us.
20:20Manuel "El Chino" Flores
20:21He is the Secretary General
20:22of the FMLN.
20:24I had a thought
20:25left,
20:26was a person
20:27that defended
20:28let's say
20:28to Palestine
20:30whole-heartedly.
20:31You can't be okay
20:33when only we
20:35we're ok.
20:36Party leaders
20:37they offered him
20:38to Bukele Sr.
20:39that it was launched
20:40to the presidency.
20:41The businessman
20:42declined the invitation
20:43But 15 years later
20:45his son
20:45was welcomed
20:47for the match
20:47left
20:48to launch
20:49his political career
20:50as mayor
20:51from Nuevo Cuscatlán,
20:53a small town
20:54close to the capital.
20:55Meanwhile,
20:57Armando Bukele
20:58turned
20:58an important
20:59contractor
21:00of the FMLN.
21:02Their companies
21:02advertising
21:03produced
21:04commercials
21:05electoral
21:05and institutional
21:07in which his son
21:08Nayib
21:08I worked
21:09as creative director.
21:11Proclamation
21:11of the party
21:12FMLN.
21:13These are campaigns
21:14that to the FMLN
21:15they seemed to him
21:16that remained
21:16very good,
21:17that they were dealing with
21:18the emotional part
21:19of the part
21:19most popular
21:20from El Salvador,
21:21that he took out
21:22peasants
21:22crying
21:23because now
21:24Yes, they felt
21:24attended.
21:25Our enemies
21:26They are underdeveloped.
21:29Nayib Bukele
21:29abandonment
21:30the race
21:31by law
21:31at the University
21:32Central American
21:33to dedicate
21:34to business
21:35from his father
21:36and manage
21:37CODE,
21:37a nightclub
21:38fashionable.
21:39The disco
21:40at those ages
21:41It's always a
21:42a key
21:43to many worlds.
21:46The key
21:47of the world
21:47of politics
21:48I had it
21:49within the party
21:50left
21:51a character
21:51that was moving
21:52in the shadows
21:53with great influences
21:54in Central America
21:55and contacts
21:58with Chavismo
21:59from Venezuela
22:00and the guerrilla
22:01Colombian
22:01of the FARC.
22:02Your name
22:03José Luis Merino
22:04is boss
22:05commands
22:06urban
22:07of the FMLN.
22:08Bukele
22:09that comes out
22:09on the left
22:10but knows
22:11the right
22:11It's going to be
22:12the new leader
22:13towards the future
22:14most relevant
22:15that the parties
22:15of the war
22:16that have already worn out.
22:17Then it was
22:18the moment
22:18accurate
22:19so that he/she could be born
22:20someone like Bukele
22:21and José Luis Merino
22:23He bet everything
22:24in that
22:25And he won.
22:27Which also
22:27They are negotiating
22:28with a group
22:29murderous criminal
22:30first
22:31that will give you votes.
22:32How are you doing?
22:33How to get votes?
22:33With fear,
22:35with force,
22:35with threats.
22:40In May
22:41of 2025
22:42exploded
22:43one of the
22:43more embarrassing
22:44scandals
22:45for Bukele.
22:46Two leaders
22:47gang members
22:48They explained
22:48to journalists
22:49from The Lighthouse
22:50how they negotiated
22:51underground
22:52with Bukele
22:53in different stages
22:54of his life
22:55policy.
22:57Under pressure
22:59from the United States
22:59the escape
23:00of the merchants
23:01alias
23:02Cross
23:02turned
23:03a hot potato
23:04for the government
23:05Bukele's.
23:08According to a conversation
23:10to which they had
23:10access
23:11the journalists
23:12of the Lighthouse
23:12the government
23:13was willing
23:14to pay
23:15to a leader
23:16gangster
23:16so that
23:17coordinate
23:17with the sign
23:18Mexican
23:19Jalisco
23:19New Generation
23:20the kidnapping
23:22de Cruz
23:23so
23:23What I'm going to do is
23:25to do
23:25It's a gamble.
23:26all in all
23:27so that you
23:28Have what you want
23:30the voice that is heard
23:32It belongs to Rafael
23:33the gang member
23:34on the other side
23:35of the line
23:35according to the comparison
23:36of voices
23:37from the reporters
23:38Raúl Eduardo is there
23:39Reyes Escuntla
23:41division chief
23:42elite
23:42against crime
23:43organized
23:44from El Salvador
23:51The intermediary
23:53It didn't work
23:53you are welcome
23:54to the government
23:54because it was
23:55boasting
23:56of connections
23:57that he did not have
23:58as he told it
23:59to the journalists
24:00Rafael never negotiated
24:02with no sign
24:03simply
24:04He was an ingenious man
24:05that with a phone
24:06He deceived a government
24:07and in that deception
24:09demonstrated
24:10despair
24:11of the government
24:12Bukele's
24:12for capturing Cruz
24:13Buke finally
24:15he was arrested
24:16in Mexico
24:16and was sent
24:17to Houston, Texas
24:18in November
24:19of 2023
24:20in an operation
24:22joint
24:22from the United States
24:23and Mexico
24:24Channels
24:25It was the prize
24:26elderly
24:26for the Prosecutor's Office
24:27from New York
24:28in the living room
24:29of tests
24:30of the case
24:30accumulated
24:3121 boxes
24:32of evidence
24:33and recordings
24:34all
24:35product
24:35of an operation
24:36joint
24:37with the Prosecutor's Office
24:38from El Salvador
24:39known as
24:40Vulcan
24:41the operation
24:42had begun
24:43during the first
24:44Trump administration
24:45when the scandal
24:47of secret pacts
24:48seemed to fall
24:49forgotten
24:50Salvadorans
24:51they found out
24:52from an interview
24:53explosive
24:54two leaders
24:56gang members
24:56They recounted in detail
24:58the agreements
24:59with Bukele
25:00Carlos Cartagena
25:02Carlos Cartagena
25:04López
25:04alias Charlie
25:05He is a former leader
25:06gangster
25:07of the Mara
25:07Barrio 18
25:08an agreement
25:09with the FMLN
25:12which was
25:13the match
25:13to which
25:14the Lord
25:16Bukele
25:16belonged
25:17They arrived there
25:18agreements
25:19that occurred
25:21inside the prisons
25:23where
25:25They asked
25:27the support
25:27well
25:28of our people
25:29another leader
25:31of the same
25:32gang
25:33identified
25:34as
25:34Little Man
25:35he said that
25:36with the approval
25:37by Carlos Marroquín
25:38sent
25:39of the president
25:40Bukele
25:40measures were applied
25:42extreme
25:43to whom
25:43they disobeyed
25:44the rules
25:45of the pandemic
25:46of COVID-19
25:47I'm not going to tell you
25:48It never happened
25:49a homicide
25:49but
25:51it was said
25:51with Marroquín
25:52if something is done
25:55bodiless
25:56there is no crime
25:56That tells you everything.
25:57because
25:58of the gang
25:59It was an obligation
25:59send word
26:00You're going to tell him
26:01to your mom
26:02You're going to tell him
26:03to your uncle
26:03You're going to tell him
26:03to your nephew
26:04You're going to tell him
26:04to your grandmother
26:05You're going to tell him
26:05to your wife
26:06You have to vote
26:06by Nayib
26:07if you don't
26:08We're going to kill them
26:09They also revealed
26:10that there were payments
26:11in dollars
26:12of the FMLN
26:14when Bukele
26:15He was mayor
26:15of that party
26:16in fact
26:17because there was
26:17an agreement
26:19monetary
26:20TRUE
26:20I mean
26:21they
26:21They gave a
26:22a certain amount
26:23of money
26:24for that support
26:26they delivered
26:27a quarter of a million
26:29Those are negotiations.
26:30illegal
26:31at least
26:32which also
26:33They are negotiating
26:34with a criminal group
26:35killer
26:35first
26:36that gives you votes
26:37How are they going to get you votes?
26:39with fear
26:39with force
26:41with threats
26:43Bukele
26:44He flatly denied it
26:45the complaints
26:46in a series
26:46of messages
26:47from their social media
26:49Romeo
26:50uberbach
26:50analyst
26:51political
26:51Salvadoran
26:52he rated
26:53of unlikely
26:54the signs
26:55the FMLN
26:56I wasn't going to leave
26:57that Nayib
26:58Bukele
26:58He went out to negotiate
27:00with gang members
27:01was a person
27:03that was due
27:03to a match
27:04There are several inconsistencies
27:05they say that
27:06in 2015
27:06and 2018
27:07He won
27:08by gang members
27:09and in 2018
27:10did not compete
27:11in court
27:11of the southern district
27:12from New York
27:13the Canales case
27:14It's frozen
27:16the last performance
27:18It's November
27:19of 2024
27:21the panorama
27:22it was composed
27:23for Bukele
27:24with the presidency
27:25by Donald Trump
27:26both governments
27:27they secretly agreed
27:29the bulk mailing
27:30of deportees
27:31to the prison center
27:32from SECOT
27:33in El Salvador
27:34Bukele
27:35became
27:36in the president
27:37most admired
27:38by the United States
27:39and the most visited
27:41by republican figures
27:42Operation Vulcan
27:45it began to shut down
27:47Prosecutor Germán Arriaza
27:49who had been working
27:50in the operation
27:51with the United States
27:53resigned
27:54after being transferred
27:55to a school
27:56training
27:57Bukele asked
27:58explicitly
28:00Rubio
28:01when they had
28:01the meeting
28:02before
28:03Bukele
28:04came to Washington
28:05the only request
28:07in return
28:07from SECOT
28:08It was the return
28:09of the leaders
28:10of the Mara Salvatrucha
28:11because they
28:13They were the ones who were
28:14in the negotiations
28:15with people
28:16Bukele's
28:17in May 2025
28:20prosecutor Durkheim
28:21who was leading
28:23the operation
28:24of a turn
28:24180 degrees
28:26when presenting
28:27a motion
28:27giving up
28:28of the charges
28:29against César López Larios
28:31alias Greñas
28:32one of the accused
28:34alongside Kruk
28:35the prosecutor
28:36justified
28:37the decision
28:38because they existed
28:39concerns
28:40geopolitics
28:41and security
28:42national
28:43He admitted the motion
28:45and alias Greñas
28:46was sent
28:47to San Salvador
28:48the Trump administration
28:49destroyed the trial
28:50against MS-13
28:51here to benefit
28:53to Nayib Bukele
28:53and not get him into trouble
28:55the changes
28:56they are noticeable
28:57from the moment
28:57that you walk
28:58peacefully over here
28:59with very expensive cameras
29:00all
29:01everything
29:01has changed
29:02but
29:04not only in the colony
29:05but also
29:06throughout El Salvador
29:10The great political godfather
29:12Bukele's
29:13He was a former guerrilla fighter
29:14Salvadoran
29:15to whom the then
29:16Senator Marco Rubio
29:17he described
29:18money launderer
29:19and arms dealer
29:21for the FARC
29:22Gerardo Reyes
29:23He explains
29:23who is it about
29:28in March 2008
29:30among the rubble
29:31from a bombing
29:32to a camp
29:33in Ecuador
29:33of the Armed Forces
29:35Revolutionaries
29:36from Colombia
29:37the authorities
29:38They found several computers
29:40in the memoirs
29:41of laptops
29:42They found references
29:44to meetings
29:44of the guerrilla
29:45with a certain Ramiro
29:48in this message
29:49of 2007
29:50cited in a slide
29:52of the services
29:53intelligence
29:54a courier
29:55of the FARC
29:56reported that Ramiro
29:57put in contact
29:58to the guerrillas
29:59with suppliers
30:00weapons
30:03this Ramiro
30:04according to the services
30:05intelligence
30:06from the United States
30:07It's José Luis Merino
30:09a historic
30:10former commander
30:11of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
30:12Martí
30:13of National Liberation
30:14FMLN
30:16that was integrated
30:17to civilian life
30:18a match
30:20that has
30:21a historical project
30:22over the years
30:23became
30:24in one
30:25in one
30:25of the brains
30:26of the party
30:26on the left
30:27FMLN
30:28and in a godfather
30:29political
30:30from Nayib
30:31Bukele
30:32us
30:33on my team
30:33working
30:34with the government
30:35from the United States
30:35we had identified
30:37in 2014
30:38to José Luis Merino
30:40as a fundamental axis
30:41in many
30:42of the processes
30:43money laundering
30:44of the FARC
30:45weapons
30:46all things
30:46Douglas Farah
30:47who has been a consultant
30:49of the government
30:49from the United States
30:50has continued
30:51of the steps
30:52Merino
30:52and their connections
30:54with the FARC
30:54and Venezuela
30:55in 2006
30:57the president
30:58Hugo Chávez
30:58He put Merino
31:00at the head
31:00Alba Petroleum
31:01from El Salvador
31:02a financed company
31:04with money
31:05of the government
31:05Venezuelan
31:06with the mission
31:07to cushion
31:08the costs
31:09of fuels
31:10of the Salvadoran people
31:11according to what they said
31:12They imported oil
31:14Venezuelan
31:15cheap
31:15from Venezuela
31:16They were selling it
31:17commercially
31:18and that profit
31:20it was going to be
31:20for schools
31:21for hospitals
31:22for everything
31:23but Alba Petróleos
31:25became
31:25in a piñata
31:27of waste
31:28and a laundromat
31:29of money
31:30of corruption
31:31according to research
31:32of the governments
31:33from the United States
31:34and El Salvador
31:35about 3 billion
31:37of dollars
31:38were diverted
31:41Nayib Bukele
31:42then
31:43He was mayor
31:43from Nuevo Cuscatlán
31:45by the FMLN
31:46was one
31:47of the beneficiaries
31:48at 30 years old
31:50received
31:501.9 million
31:52of dollars
31:53were paid
31:54by Inverbal
31:55a subsidiary
31:56Alba Petroleum
31:57as revealed
31:58the digital newspaper
32:00Factum
32:00from El Salvador
32:01in that document
32:02Bukele appears
32:03signing
32:04one of the
32:04Inverbal promissory notes
32:06but in the case
32:07Bukele's
32:07You can't call
32:08loan
32:09It was a gift
32:09because never
32:10He paid it
32:11There was no guarantee
32:12you are welcome
32:13Bukele has acknowledged
32:15publicly
32:16that received
32:17the money
32:17and that he used it
32:18to buy
32:19shares
32:19from Starlight
32:20owner
32:21from the channel
32:22TVX TV
32:23let's say that
32:24that's how it was
32:25We're not talking
32:26that there was
32:27corruption
32:27because they stole
32:28money
32:30upon arrival
32:31to his first
32:32mandate
32:32It didn't break
32:33altogether
32:34with its past
32:35Bukele chose
32:36for their circle
32:37nearest
32:37to the doctor
32:38Eric Giovanni
32:39Vega
32:40who had been
32:41for 10 years
32:42private secretary
32:44Merino
32:44and director
32:45from several companies
32:46linked to Alba Petróleos
32:48He was the envoy
32:50by José Luis Merino
32:51more trustworthy
32:52to meetings
32:53in Venezuela
32:54with Russians
32:55with Venezuelans
32:56with the FARC
32:57Bukele appointed
32:59Carolina Recinos
33:00as boss
33:01cabinet
33:02she was
33:02the attorney
33:03from Starlight
33:04the owning company
33:05from the channel
33:06television
33:07Bukele's
33:07Recinos
33:09was sanctioned
33:10in 2021
33:10by the Department
33:12of the Treasury
33:12from the United States
33:13through links
33:14with corruption
33:15and undermine
33:16democracy
33:17on the same list
33:19the Treasury
33:19included
33:20to Conan Castro
33:21former legal secretary
33:23of the presidency
33:24by obstructing
33:25research
33:26and divert
33:26public funds
33:27there too
33:28appears
33:29Oscar Castro Castro
33:30Minister of Labor
33:32by appropriation
33:33of funds
33:34José Luis Merino
33:35It also fell
33:36in disgrace
33:37in Washington
33:38in 2016
33:39the Republican senator
33:41Marco Rubio
33:42who almost
33:43a decade
33:43after
33:44would become
33:45in the great ally
33:46Bukele's
33:46he referred
33:47to Merino
33:53like a bleach
33:55of money
33:56top notch
33:57and world-class
33:58and smuggler
34:00weapons
34:00for the FARC
34:03It's the same Merino
34:05then
34:06bet
34:07by Bukele
34:07for the presidency
34:09from El Salvador
34:09as he showed
34:11in this interview
34:12of 2017
34:13with the journalist
34:15Carlos Monterrosa
34:16Nayib is a mayor
34:18successful
34:18It is a figure
34:20public
34:21successful
34:21and of course
34:24is inside
34:25of the figures
34:26potential
34:27that the FMLN
34:28can
34:30launch
34:31Bukele broke
34:32with the FMLN
34:34He was expelled
34:35because of their criticisms
34:36to that organization
34:38and launched
34:39to the presidency
34:40with another match
34:41from that moment on
34:47he began to distance himself
34:48of his past
34:49of missing
34:50leftist
34:50which included
34:51attacks on the government
34:53that he had given her
34:541.9 million
34:56of dollars
34:56in the case
34:58For example
34:58from isolation
34:59of the regime
35:01genocida
35:02by Nicolás Maduro
35:02and also
35:04fraudulent
35:04and illegitimate
35:07a few weeks
35:08before
35:09Bukele will take office
35:10of his first presidency
35:12in 2019
35:13the department
35:15of the treasure
35:15sanctioned Merino
35:17for receiving bribes
35:18and participate
35:19in a scheme
35:20money laundering
35:22me
35:23They live me
35:24accusing
35:26of anything
35:27even earthquakes
35:28They're going to accuse me
35:29any day
35:30But the truth is
35:31It's never
35:31They present a single role
35:33not even a little one
35:34not big
35:35nor medium
35:35today
35:36you will decide
35:38how they want to be governed
35:39the day before
35:40of possession
35:41Bukele's
35:42the Salvadoran prosecutor's office
35:44raided 23 offices
35:46linked to Alba Petróleos
35:48and seized
35:49accounting information
35:50some of the documents
35:52they showed
35:53the payment to Bukele
35:54the embassy
35:54was supporting
35:55with scanners
35:56high speed
35:57to start compiling
35:59the documents
35:59the prosecutor
36:00Raúl Ernesto Melara
36:02that he had investigated
36:03Alba Petróleos
36:04He was dismissed
36:05is lying down
36:07by Bukele
36:08illegally
36:08and name
36:09the current prosecutor
36:11general of the republic
36:13which had been
36:14lawyer
36:15Alba Petroleum
36:16was one of several
36:17measures that were taken
36:18from this day forward
36:20February 9th
36:21of 2020
36:22when the army
36:24from El Salvador
36:25He stormed into Congress
36:26under orders
36:27Bukele's
36:28the images
36:29they scored
36:30for many
36:30the beginning
36:32of the decline
36:32of democracy
36:33Salvadoran
36:34as he explains
36:35John Philly
36:36former ambassador
36:37from the United States
36:38in Panama
36:39Naís Bukele
36:40obviously
36:41He is a president
36:42who came to power
36:45democratically
36:46but with a
36:48clear
36:49clear intention
36:50to convert
36:52the government
36:53from El Salvador
36:54in an autocracy
36:55besides
36:56that loan
36:57it's there
36:57since last year
36:58we would already be
36:59applying the funds
37:00Bukele was looking
37:01that the assembly
37:02approve a loan
37:03of 109 million
37:05of dollars
37:05for combat
37:06to the gangs
37:07like the congress
37:08he refused
37:09threatened
37:10with an insurrection
37:11popular
37:11prior to consultation
37:12with God
37:18Guillermo Gallegos
37:20was acting then
37:21as president
37:21of the assembly
37:22but the person responsible
37:24of everything that happened
37:25there
37:25It was me
37:26you consider
37:27those are
37:28images
37:29of a democracy
37:30maybe
37:31lest it be
37:32a good image
37:34that there may have been
37:35sent with the entry
37:36of the army
37:37or the police
37:38which I
37:39I authorized
37:40But it was necessary.
37:43I believe
37:43It was important
37:44also
37:45send a message
37:47that there was
37:47a decision
37:48of the president
37:50of all
37:50at least
37:51those of us who support
37:52to face
37:53to the gangs
37:54It is approved
37:56the decree
37:57that dismisses
37:58to the magistrates
37:59Bukele
38:00dismissed
38:01to the magistrates
38:02of the room
38:02constitutional
38:03of the court
38:04supreme
38:04of justice
38:05two years
38:06after
38:07achievement
38:07that it was approved
38:08his re-election
38:09immediate
38:10in an open
38:11challenge
38:12to the constitution
38:13the measures
38:14they were furious
38:15to the government
38:15Biden
38:16the then
38:17ambassador
38:17Jim Mainz
38:18protested
38:19a strategy
38:20clear
38:21to undermine
38:23independence
38:25judicial
38:27the five new ones
38:29magistrates
38:30of the court
38:30They were sanctioned
38:31by the government
38:32United States
38:33by undermining
38:34democracy
38:35the image
38:35that caused
38:36in the town
38:37the thing is
38:38USA
38:38I wanted to press
38:39to the president
38:44Bukele took office
38:45of his position
38:46from the balcony
38:47major
38:48of the palace
38:49national
38:49with its indices
38:50popularity
38:52intact
38:52but facing
38:53serious accusations
38:55of rapes
38:56constitutional
38:57we have a huge
38:58task
38:59the one to protect
39:00like a lion
39:01our legacy
39:02the problems
39:03with Washington
39:04they began to clear
39:06thanks to the intervention
39:07from the ambassador
39:08before the country
39:09Central American
39:10Ronald Johnson
39:11with whom the president
39:12forged a friendship
39:13staff
39:14We will continue working
39:15side by side
39:16to build
39:17a savior
39:17more prosperous
39:18and better for everyone
39:19They could be seen
39:20to leave
39:20socially
39:21and they had
39:22encounters
39:22like this
39:23in the famous
39:23restaurant
39:24Joyce Stonecraft
39:26from Miami
39:26the secret pacts
39:29the relationships
39:29with Merino
39:30donations
39:31from Chávez
39:32the blow
39:33to the court
39:34and the approval
39:35re-election
39:36immediate
39:36They are scandals
39:37that don't seem
39:39to have caused
39:39greater impact
39:40in popularity
39:42Bukele's
39:42nor in memory
39:43from Washington
39:44that a senator
39:46former senator
39:47from Florida
39:48now secretary
39:49state
39:49be in alliance
39:51with someone
39:52that it is supported
39:53at the supplier
39:54bigger
39:54weapons
39:55to the FARC
39:56It seems to me
39:57a bit
39:58incredible
40:02Blond
40:02had been
40:03a critic
40:04Bukele's
40:08but today
40:09secretary
40:10state
40:10admitted
40:11that the president
40:12Salvadoran
40:13it could happen
40:14the taste
40:14to do it
40:15due to its popularity
40:16It is a country
40:17that has faced
40:18corrupt governments
40:19It is a country
40:20a popularity
40:22that sprouts
40:23spontaneously
40:24in the neighborhood
40:24from San Salvador
40:25where before
40:26No one could speak
40:28without permission
40:28of the gangs
40:29Well
40:30the changes
40:31they are noticeable
40:31from the moment
40:32that you
40:32They're around here
40:33quietly
40:33with cameras
40:34very expensive
40:35very expensive microphone
40:36with his wallet
40:37full of money
40:38with your phone
40:39in the bag
40:39all
40:40everything
40:41has changed
40:42but
40:43not only in the colony
40:45but also
40:46throughout El Salvador
40:49a few kilometers away
40:51thence
40:51Josefina Elias
40:53a teacher
40:54pensioner
40:54keep asking
40:56for his son
40:57René Campos
40:58a sailor
40:59merchant
40:59who was arrested
41:00in June
41:01of 2023
41:02under suspicion
41:03of being a gang member
41:04despite the fact that
41:05most
41:06of the year
41:07I worked
41:07on a cruise
41:08international
41:09and I didn't have
41:10tattoos
41:11from that day
41:13well
41:14I don't know
41:14if my son
41:15He is alive
41:16if my son
41:17He is dead
41:18Salvadorans
41:20have suffered
41:21a plague
41:22of violence
41:23mostly
41:24by the gang members
41:26then it arrives
41:27with its policy
41:28with a firm hand
41:29that violates
41:30human rights
41:31breaks with
41:32the rule of law
41:33But I understand
41:35that many Salvadorans
41:36they say look
41:37in return
41:38what I lived off of
41:39before
41:39not very funny
41:41the problem
41:42with an iron fist
41:43and the policies
41:44with a firm hand
41:45and the
41:46undermine
41:49democracy
41:50It's late
41:51or early
41:53sowing
41:54the seed
41:54of his own
41:55destruction
42:01in July
42:02of this year
42:032026
42:04Nayib Bukele
42:05advertisement
42:05that will seek
42:06a third period
42:07as president
42:07the indices
42:09security
42:09they still are
42:10high
42:11but the organisms
42:12human rights
42:13They continue to denounce
42:14arbitrary arrests
42:15massive
42:16inmate deaths
42:18and disappearances
42:19forced
42:19the presidency
42:21has not responded
42:22to the requests
42:22interviews
42:23of NMAS
42:24Univision
42:25And so we ended
42:26And so we ended
42:26this special program
42:27thank you for your time
42:29good night
42:30to the requests
42:35to the requests
42:36to the requests
42:41that the presidency
42:43of the presidency
42:43has not responded
42:45to the requests
42:45of the presidency
Comentarios