2023-08-29 07:53:18
the main mediator of a controversial truce between Salvadoran gangs (2012-2014), Raúl Mijango, passed away this Monday, according to different local media reports. Mijango, from and who was serving a 13-year prison sentence for the crime of aggravated extortion, “was hospitalized” and suffered from pneumonia and “other diseases”according to information from the newspaper La Prensa Gráfica.
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The mediator of the gang truce died this afternoon, according to the state-run Noticiero El Salvador. The digital media El Faro, for its part, noted that, according to sources close to the family, “the justice system denied a request for measures for health reasons.”
Mijango was prosecuted along with a group of gang members and was accused of heading a structure that gave perks to jailed gang leaders in exchange for less murder with the permission of the Government of former President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014), according to the prosecution’s accusation. In October 2018, he was sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in prison, and in recent years he had been transferred to hospitals in the country on several occasions due to health complications, the local press reported.
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