According to specialized personnel in extortion cases, Howard Wilfredo Barillas Moralesaka Matazetas, and Jorge Yahi de León Hernándezalias the diabolical, control business and talachas within the aforementioned criminal.
A report from the Institute of Analysis and Research of National Problems (IPNUSAC), points out that until March 2024, there were just over 1,900 inmates in that prison.
Businesses include grocery stores, food sales and a maquila That, according to the authorities of the Penitentiary System (SP), they are part of the alleged reintegration of inmates to society.
The researchers said that matazets and diabolical have used the entry of products for these businesses to hide illicit such as cell phones, weapons and equipment for Internet connection. In addition, a complaint details that relatives of the inmates have also introduced prohibited objects With the complicity of SP guards.
They added that the inmates who work in the shops or drive a “entrepreneurship”, such as PAN sales, must pay a quota to the matazets and the devilish in exchange for being allowed to operate.
Divided into two
“That prison is divided into two: in one area are the gang members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS), and in the other, the so -called paisas,” said one of the researchers.
In turkey the call operates Council of the nine of the MSled by the Diabolic, who turns a 168 -year sentence for ordering the murder of four people, whose bodies were beheaded and abandoned in front of the Congress of the Republic.
The paisas leader is the matazetas, considered Byron Lima Successorthe military who controlled said penalty until July 18, 2016, when he was killed with a grenade and firearms.
SP ensures that it maintains control
A few weeks ago, the then general director of the Penitentiary System (SP), Sergio Vela, said that the institution had control of the country’s penalties and that there was no successor or substitute for Byron Lima in terms of the power he exercised in Pavoncito.
“I don’t think there is any substitute. The captain, then, was a person deprived of liberty; there is no substitute,” he said.
“In our model, a deprived of liberty will not be allowed to have control of some center or several centers, which is what we have been demonstrating since last year, with the transfer of different spokesmen to other centers in isolation, so that this type of abuse or control does not continue to happen,” said Vela.
He added that they were complying with the protocols established in the units and that they strengthened the institution with new staff and training for those who are already hired.
“If you realize, in the Penitentiary Renewal Model we are implementing new guards with the ideal training to be able to have control of these, so much so that we have changed from three months to six months the training for a SP guard,” he acknowledged.
The current SP authorities were consulted on who controls the Pavoncito prison, but they have not responded.
Leaders were profiled
In November 2024, the Ministry of the Interior indicated that the General Directorate of Civil Intelligence and Penitentiary Intelligence outlined the inmates of eleven prisons of the country, including Pavoncito.
“The recommendation was made that Howard Wilfredo Barillas – Matazetas – was transferred to the maximum security prison Renovation 1, for being leader of a band of imitators,” said the researchers.
They added that the Barillas operators were transferred to renewal 1, in Escuintla, with the aim of dismantling the structure.
For his part, Yahi de León Hernández, El Diabolic, continues to order murders and extortion charges from prison. In addition, he coordinated the entry of construction materials for two -level apartments, which, five months after being detected, were destroyed.
Calls from prisons
The Public Ministry reported that, in 2024, approximately 64 thousand 717 calls left prison centers. Statistics point out that most of these extortion communications originated in the penalties of Pavón, Pavoncito, Fraijanes, Cantel and La Granja Canada, where criminal structures continue to operate.
The Institute for Analysis and Research of National Problems (IPNUSAC) indicated, in its magazine The without control penitentiary system (2024), which is estimated that between 70% and 80% of extortion come from the country’s seclusion centers.
He added that it is necessary to combat the short -term problem, and that, sometimes, the tools already exist, but it is necessary to implement them, fulfill them and enforce them.
“It is imperative to comply with the Law of Mobile Terminal Teams, Decree 8-2013 of the Congress of the Republic. The regulations establish the responsibilities of actors such as the Telecommunications Superintendence, telephone operators and users,” said Lizandro Acuña in the article.
He added that the Law 6223 initiative was presented to the legislative direction of Congress, which raises the signal blockade in the centers for the deprivation of liberty.
“Article 2 regulates obligations for Internet and cell phone service providers, and imposes penalties for not installing signal inhibitors that work in prisons,” he explained.
This bill remains inactive since February 2024 in the Government Commission.