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EL SALVADOR - ENVELOPES ABOVE, RENT BELOW

By Roxana Alvarenga · 4 parts · 12 h 7 min · English

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El Salvador, 1992 to 2026: a dollarized country of six million living on remittances, robbed from two directions at once. From above, presidents drew on a cash fund nobody audited; one confessed to appropriating it, one died before trial, one died in exile, never tried for the $351 million prosecutors say his government diverted. From below, MS-13 and Barrio 18 taxed bus routes and market stalls, and courts and the US Treasury have found that officials of three successive eras bargained with their jailed leaders. Covers Elías Antonio Saca and the secret fund, Mauricio Funes and the Saqueo Público case, José Adán Salazar Umaña and the Texis cartel, Raúl Mijango and the 2012 truce, Nayib Bukele's prisons chief Osiris Luna and MS-13, and José Luis Merino and Alba Petróleos.

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  1. Part 01

    2:35:07

  2. Part 02

    2:48:26

  3. Part 03

    3:17:08

  4. Part 04

    3:26:09

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