During March Massacre, El Salvador Government Took Four MS-13 Leaders Out of Prison
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Roman Gressier
At 2:30 in the afternoon on Friday, March 25, a government vehicle left Zacatecoluca Prison toward a private hospital in San Salvador with Borromeo Enrique Henríquez, one of the most recognized leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 known as "Diablito de Hollywood." The transfer, which El Faro confirmed with official documents, is especially relevant given that, just hours before, a massacre had begun in which the gang later confessed to murdering 87 people in a single weekend. The killings marked the end of their negotiations with the government and the start of the ongoing state of exception.
A prison intelligence report obtained by El Faro stated that a government driver and two guards made the transfer in a vehicle with license plate N-7877, corresponding to a Ford 2013 van assigned to the Prison Bureau, an institution led by Vice Minister of Security Osiris Luna Meza.
According to the report, the vehicle traveled to the Baptist Hospital, a private facility in San Salvador just one block away from Rosales National Hospital and the General Hospital of Social Security, despite the fact that the municipality of Zacatecoluca, 37 miles from the capital, has a public hospital of its own that regularly treats those incarcerated in the maximum-security facility.
A prominent police officer stationed at the prison wrote the report and sent it at the end of the day from the subdelegation of the National Civil Police in the municipality of Zacatecoluca up the chain of command to the Subdirectorate of Specialized Operations Areas (SAEO) and the Joint Command of the Department of La Paz. The officer did not state why Henríquez left, if he came back that day, nor for how long he was gone.
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