1. Jorge Alejandro Muyshondt Alvarez was a Salvadoran politician who served as a national security advisor to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from 2019 to 2023.
33 Facts About Alejandro Muyshondt
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In July 2023, Alejandro Muyshondt alleged that Nuevas Ideas deputy Erick Garcia was involved in MS-13 drug trafficking operations ultimately resulting in Garcia's arrest and expulsion from the Legislative Assembly.
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On 9 August 2023, Alejandro Muyshondt was arrested by the National Civil Police and was accused by Bukele of being a double agent for former Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes.
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Alejandro Muyshondt was admitted to the Hospital Saldana in October 2023 after suffering a stroke and died in custody in February 2024.
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Alejandro Muyshondt's family alleges that he "was silenced" and tortured by the government.
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Jorge Alejandro Muyshondt Alvarez was born in El Salvador on 12 February 1977.
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In 2003, Alejandro Muyshondt received his bachelor's degree in criminology from the University of Angers in France.
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Alejandro Muyshondt was a member of the Nationalist Republican Alliance until 2013.
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From January 2017 to May 2019, Alejandro Muyshondt served as a security advisor for Nayib Bukele, the mayor of San Salvador from 2015 to 2018.
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In 2017, Alejandro Muyshondt received US$14,125 from the office of the mayor of San Salvador for his audiovisual production service for the Municipal Youth Institute between April and June 2017.
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Alejandro Muyshondt was personally invited by Bukele to attend his inauguration as president of El Salvador on 1 June 2019.
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On 27 July 2023, Alejandro Muyshondt alleged that Erick Garcia, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from Nuevas Ideas, was involved in MS-13 drug trafficking operations.
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Alejandro Muyshondt posted images on X allegedly depicting Garcia's staffers displaying MS-13 gang signs and screenshots allegedly depicting Garcia's WhatsApp messages which included images of packaged marijuana.
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In November 2013, Alejandro Muyshondt attempted to search for a thief who allegedly stole someone's phone in San Salvador.
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Alejandro Muyshondt was armed with an AK-47 and a 9 mm pistol while wearing a mask and a bulletproof vest.
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Alejandro Muyshondt stated that the reason he did it was because both the National Civil Police and the office of the attorney general were ineffective.
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In November 2014, Alejandro Muyshondt was arrested after he had allegedly threatened a public transportation driver with a firearm.
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Alejandro Muyshondt was later released after he reconciled with the driver.
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Alejandro Muyshondt was acquitted on 25 September 2017 by San Salvador's 1st Criminal Court on 20 August 2018, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador ordered a retrial.
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On 3 August 2023, allegations surfaced that Alejandro Muyshondt had been secretly working as an informant for Mauricio Funes, a former president of El Salvador who had been living in exile in Nicaragua since 2016 and who was wanted on embezzlement charges.
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Funes denied the allegations and stated that he and Alejandro Muyshondt did not have any personal relationship.
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Bukele claimed that Alejandro Muyshondt had been working as a double agent since 2019.
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Alejandro Muyshondt's family alleged that, upon receiving the clothes he was wearing on the day of his arrest, they noticed that it was stained with blood, leading them believe that he could have been tortured.
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On 16 October 2023, the Ministry of Health stated that Alejandro Muyshondt was admitted to the Hospital Saldana in San Salvador to receive medical attention after suffering an ischemic stroke which held him unable to walk or speak.
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Alejandro Muyshondt's family claimed that they only learned about his condition after reading a news article published by El Diario de Hoy.
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Alejandro Muyshondt's mother stated that she believed he had suffered the stroke due to her not being able to provide him medication which he took.
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Alejandro Muyshondt petitioned First Lady Gabriela Rodriguez de Bukele to allow her to see her son.
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Alejandro Muyshondt died at the Hospital Saldana on 7 February 2024 at 8:10 pm The hospital preliminarily ruled his cause of death as pulmonary edema.
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Alejandro Muyshondt's family retrieved his remains from Medicina Legal the following day.
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Alejandro Muyshondt's mother claimed that the body was bruised, had several holes in it, and that it appeared that a lobotomy had been performed on him.
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Alejandro Muyshondt claimed that he had been tortured and that he "was silenced in the same manner of Klaus Barbie during the Nazi times, causing harm to his health".
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Alejandro Muyshondt's funeral was held in Santa Elena on 12 February 2024 on what would have been his 47th birthday.
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Alejandro Muyshondt's family stated that his remains would be cremated.