El Salvador captures former prison director
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – El Salvador’s former director of prisons has been arrested after more than a month on the run.
The Attorney General’s office and National Civil Police said Monday that Nelson Rauda was caught in the Santa Ana township west of the capital.
Rauda was one of 21 people charged by prosecutors on May 3 for their roles in a 2012 gang truce. The truce lowered the country’s murder rate, but critics, including the current administration of President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, have said the treaty was a political deal that allowed the gangs to strengthen.
Rauda was director of prisons under ex-President Mauricio Funes. He and others face charges of illicit association.
El Salvador now has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
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