2023-05-29 22:18:58
General David Munguía Payés, who served as Defense Minister during the Funes administration, has also been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Photo: Equilibrium newspaper.
San Salvador. Former President of the Republic, Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (2009-2014) was sentenced this Monday, May 29, to 14 years in prison in the case called “Truce.”
General David Munguía Payés, who served as Defense Minister during the Funes administration, has also been sentenced to 18 years in prison. The FGR had requested 16 years against Funes Cartagena and 20 against the military.
When Funes “ruled” the country, a group was formed that negotiated with the leaders of terrorist groups to lower the number of homicides, in addition to political favors for the benefit of the FMLN, according to investigations by the Attorney General’s Office.
After the evidence presented in the trial, a court of justice found Funes and Munguía Payés guilty for the crimes of Illicit Groups in breach of Duties; in the case of the military, to this was added the crime of Arbitrary Acts.
The Attorney General, Rodolfo Delgado, said that the two former officials had a duty to protect the population and, instead, they negotiated their lives in exchange for electoral favors, acting like gang members.
At the time, the “negotiators” made so many concessions to the terrorist groups that they even gave them territories, which they called “sanctuaries”; They were also granted prerogatives within the prisons, such as parties, orgies, and telephone communication, apart from being served succulent plates of food.
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