{"id":54728,"date":"2025-11-05T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fbi-to-help-track-down-barrio-18-gang-leaders-who-escaped-prison-guatemala-says\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:40:22","slug":"fbi-to-help-track-down-barrio-18-gang-leaders-who-escaped-prison-guatemala-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/fbi-to-help-track-down-barrio-18-gang-leaders-who-escaped-prison-guatemala-says\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI to help track down Barrio 18 gang leaders who escaped prison, Guatemala says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Guatemala&#8217;s government announced Tuesday that the United States would send an FBI team to help capture gang leaders whose jailbreak has triggered a security crisis in the Central American country.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities last month announced that <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/members-barrio-18-us-foreign-terrorist-escape-prison-guatemala\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">20 members of the Barrio 18 gang<\/a><\/span> had broken out of the Fraijanes II prison near Guatemala City, but did not specify when the escape happened.<\/p>\n<p>Only four of the fugitives have been recaptured so far.<\/p>\n<p>Guatemala has now followed Washington&#8217;s lead by classifying Barrio 18, an El Salvador-based gang with a reputation for violence and extortion, as a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; organization.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the U.S. government <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-designates-barrio-18-foreign-terrorist-organization\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">blacklisted Barrio 18<\/a><\/span> as part of its crackdown on drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usembassyguate\/status\/1977559864189551082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">criticized the escape<\/a> as &#8220;utterly unacceptable&#8221; and called on the Guatemalan government to &#8220;act immediately and vigorously to recapture these terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the jailbreak, President Bernardo Arevalo dismissed his Interior Minister, Francisco Jimenez. He replaced him with Marco Antonio Villeda, who requested the FBI&#8217;s assistance in tracking down the escapees.<\/p>\n<p>Villeda told reporters on Tuesday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBI\/status\/1283462048446324738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FBI&#8217;s Joint Task Force Vulcan<\/a> would participate in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The specialized task force was created by Donald Trump in 2019, during his first term as president, with the aim of dismantling Latin American criminal organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It was originally intended to target the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang.\u00a0 According to the Salvadoran government, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ms-13-mara-salvatrucha-barrio-18-guatemala-funeral-attack\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Barrio 18 and MS-13<\/a><\/span> are responsible for the deaths of about 200,000 people over three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Guatemalan Attorney General&#8217;s Office requested that President Arevalo&#8217;s immunity be lifted in order to investigate him for &#8220;breach of duty&#8221; in connection with the escape.<\/p>\n<p>Barrio 18 is one of the largest gangs in the Northern Hemisphere, the U.S. State Department said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/09\/terrorist-designation-of-barrio-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September news release<\/a>, adding that the terror designation &#8220;further demonstrates the Trump Administration&#8217;s unwavering commitment to dismantling cartels and gangs and ensuring the safety of the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/foreign-terrorist-organizations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More than a dozen groups<\/a>\u00a0have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations since the start of Mr. Trump&#8217;s second term. In February, Mr. Trump declared eight drug cartels as terrorist groups, including the powerful <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/drug-cartel-suspects-killed-shootout-police-sinaloa-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Sinaloa<\/a><\/span> drug cartel and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/human-remains-grave-jalisco-mexico-cartel-stronghold\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jalisco<\/a><\/span> New Generation Cartel.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has used the foreign terrorist designation to justify multiple lethal strikes on boats allegedly carrying drugs off South America, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2-killed-latest-u-s-strike-alleged-drug-boat-eastern-pacific-hegseth\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">including an attack Tuesday<\/a><\/span> on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that killed two people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section 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