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Security & Strategic Review - December 2023
EL SALVADOR: Questions raised as top gang leader in US custody
On 15 November the US Department of Justice (DoJ) confirmed that Élmer ‘El Crook’ Canales Rivera, a leader of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), one of El Salvador’s two main gangs, was in custody in the US, where he and 13 other high-ranking MS-13 leaders were indicted in December 2020 on terrorism charges. His case could well strain relations between the US and the Salvadorean government led by President Nayib Bukele which, accused previously of negotiating with gangs, had failed to act on an extradition request for Canales.
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