The defendants were in the process of organizing two caravans to leave today and tomorrow, the prosecution said. In 2018, thousands of Salvadorans embarked on a massive trip to the United States, in so-called caravans, following the example of thousands of Hondurans
The Attorney General (FGR) reported the arrest of three people this morning as suspects in the crime of promoting the illegal human trafficking. The prisoners have been identified as Juan Rufino Ramírez Villalobos, Fátima del Rosario Pérez Treasurer, and José Eusebio Asegurado Ayala.
According to information from the prosecution, the detainees were the administrators of WhatsApp groups they had set up to promote Salvadoran caravans who were due to leave between today and tomorrow with the intention of reaching the United States.
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In the case of Seguro Ayala, the prosecution arrested him today at 4:30 am in the Plaza Las Américas or Salvador del Mundo. Research shows that in December 2021 he founded a WhatsApp group in which he set up people to be part of the migrant caravan to the United States.
With regard to Ramírez Villalobos and Pérez Tesorero, the public prosecutor confirms that in addition to promoting the caravan via WhatsApp, through the same application, they instructed people interested in travel to buy a land transport package that is proof of the COVID -19.
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They also escorted a group of people from different parts of the country to the Terminal de Occidente where they were told which company to buy transport tickets to Guatemala, where they would join the caravan of Hondurans who also entered that country in the same dates. .