Former El Salvador President Sentenced for Colluding with Gangs During Tenure
- Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for negotiating with gangs during his administration.
- Funes' former Security Minister Gen. David Munguía Payes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his involvement in the negotiations.
- Prosecutors accused Funes of illicit association and failure to perform his duties for the gang truce negotiated in 2012.
- The gang negotiations were aimed at getting the country’s powerful street gangs to lower the homicide rate in exchange for benefits to the gangs’ imprisoned leaders.
- Current President Nayib Bukele has been accused of engaging in the same kind of negotiations with the gangs.