‘El Greñas,’ the MS-13 leader who may hold the key to Bukele and Trump’s prison deal
The gang member, deported Sunday, is a founder member of the Ranfla Nacional, the criminal high command that negotiated homicide reductions in exchange for prison benefits with several Salvadoran governments, including Bukele’s
Every day, more details emerge about the prison agreement between Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump to receive migrants deported from the United States. On Monday, the day after the Salvadoran president televised the transfer of 261 alleged members of the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 criminal organizations to the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT), the White House clarified that, in reality, 101 of the Venezuelans who arrived on Sunday were simply undocumented migrants, not terrorists. By then, the controversy had already erupted. On the same day that the U.S. sent two flights full of Venezuelan deportees using an 18th-century law designed for times of war and without following due process, a judge temporarily blocked the measure.
