The former rulers they never did in El Salvador, it has the current president Mauricio Funes by publicly acknowledging the existence in their country of a drug cartel that has connections with the State's institutions, as well as gang-gangs, and serves springboard to catapult the cocaine from Colombia to the United States, where the market is assured.
Funes confirmed to local and foreign journalists, international journalists at a forum held on Monday, the existence of a large drug trafficking network in the north and northwest of El Salvador, called Texis sign-on to the northern district, where Texistepeque involving entrepreneurs, mayors, deputies, police and judges.
He also asserted that also asks about the presence in this nation of assassins and drug gang known as Los Zetas, Mexico, which has an active presence in neighboring Guatemala. The president confirmed, but was cautious at the same time, publishing an extensive report of the online newspaper El Faro, which reveals the existence and actions of the cartel, which would be headed by two businessmen, Joseph Adam Umaña Salazar, aka Chepe Diablo and Roberto Antonio Herrera, aka El Burro.
El Faro says that police investigations on this poster are from 2000 and gradually have involved five former director of the National Civil Police (PNC) and the present, Carlos Ascencio, who, apparently, is instructed to stop it. Research realize that the current mayor of Metapán, Juan Umaña Samayoa, the conservative National Conciliation Party (PCN), is also noted as the leader of criminal cartel.
The newspaper reported that their intelligence sources are the State and has conducted a thorough research of more than four months. The reports of the Organization of the State Intelligence (OIE) count on the cooperation of the Salvadoran police and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English), sources claim that the drug cartel that manages the Texis belonging to illegal groups in Colombia, which are also rooted in Honduras.
Texis In the poster would be involved, in addition, several judges, a former director of the police, and three commissioners in active and several heads of delegation and sub-delegation of PNC. A leader of the PNC, who requested anonymity, pointed to the country that all those mentioned in the story of El Faro are currently under investigation, including its former director Jose Luis Tobar Prieto, who was in office until 2009, when there was the change of government, of the rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), the leftist Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN).
Other figures that are shown are the member of the National Conciliation Party, Reynaldo Cardoza, the former Governor of Santa Ana and departmental ARENA candidate for mayor of that city, Patricia Rodriguez Costa, the mayor of Texistepeque, Armando Portillo; and former deputy of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Jose Salvador Cardoza, among other active politicians.
These reports and statements reveal that the cartel has Texis being investigated by police for more than ten years, but "there were difficulties" to stop its members and the prosecution has been unable or unwilling to prosecute cases, says report El Faro, a medium that was in Spain recently Ortega y Gasset Prize in Journalism.
Funes did not delve into details about this case, in an interview in San Salvador that made him Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegi, CNN, which is involved in this capital in an international forum for journalists. Funes said that during his Administration, the Salvadoran State, through the police have been investigating "so profuse and thorough" and that investigations would be put in the hands of the prosecution without underestimating who is involved.
"I can not give an account of what previous administrations have done and why, in previous administrations has not advanced," Funes said, adding that the responsibility of bringing the case to court if sufficient evidence is found, corresponding to the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and the judiciary.
The president of the Supreme Court Justice (CSJ) issued a statement Monday in which it reported that will explore to determine whether to open an investigation relevant to the judges mentioned in the article as accomplices of the poster. 
Funes confirmed to local and foreign journalists, international journalists at a forum held on Monday, the existence of a large drug trafficking network in the north and northwest of El Salvador, called Texis sign-on to the northern district, where Texistepeque involving entrepreneurs, mayors, deputies, police and judges.
He also asserted that also asks about the presence in this nation of assassins and drug gang known as Los Zetas, Mexico, which has an active presence in neighboring Guatemala. The president confirmed, but was cautious at the same time, publishing an extensive report of the online newspaper El Faro, which reveals the existence and actions of the cartel, which would be headed by two businessmen, Joseph Adam Umaña Salazar, aka Chepe Diablo and Roberto Antonio Herrera, aka El Burro.
El Faro says that police investigations on this poster are from 2000 and gradually have involved five former director of the National Civil Police (PNC) and the present, Carlos Ascencio, who, apparently, is instructed to stop it. Research realize that the current mayor of Metapán, Juan Umaña Samayoa, the conservative National Conciliation Party (PCN), is also noted as the leader of criminal cartel.
The newspaper reported that their intelligence sources are the State and has conducted a thorough research of more than four months. The reports of the Organization of the State Intelligence (OIE) count on the cooperation of the Salvadoran police and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English), sources claim that the drug cartel that manages the Texis belonging to illegal groups in Colombia, which are also rooted in Honduras.
Texis In the poster would be involved, in addition, several judges, a former director of the police, and three commissioners in active and several heads of delegation and sub-delegation of PNC. A leader of the PNC, who requested anonymity, pointed to the country that all those mentioned in the story of El Faro are currently under investigation, including its former director Jose Luis Tobar Prieto, who was in office until 2009, when there was the change of government, of the rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), the leftist Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN).
Other figures that are shown are the member of the National Conciliation Party, Reynaldo Cardoza, the former Governor of Santa Ana and departmental ARENA candidate for mayor of that city, Patricia Rodriguez Costa, the mayor of Texistepeque, Armando Portillo; and former deputy of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Jose Salvador Cardoza, among other active politicians.
These reports and statements reveal that the cartel has Texis being investigated by police for more than ten years, but "there were difficulties" to stop its members and the prosecution has been unable or unwilling to prosecute cases, says report El Faro, a medium that was in Spain recently Ortega y Gasset Prize in Journalism.
Funes did not delve into details about this case, in an interview in San Salvador that made him Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegi, CNN, which is involved in this capital in an international forum for journalists. Funes said that during his Administration, the Salvadoran State, through the police have been investigating "so profuse and thorough" and that investigations would be put in the hands of the prosecution without underestimating who is involved.
"I can not give an account of what previous administrations have done and why, in previous administrations has not advanced," Funes said, adding that the responsibility of bringing the case to court if sufficient evidence is found, corresponding to the Attorney General's Office (FGR) and the judiciary.
The president of the Supreme Court Justice (CSJ) issued a statement Monday in which it reported that will explore to determine whether to open an investigation relevant to the judges mentioned in the article as accomplices of the poster.
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