'Tucker Carlson Originals' enters dangerous territory investigating MS-13
The Fox Nation episode features exclusive interviews with a gang member and the president of El Salvador
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In the latest installment of Fox Nation’s "Tucker Carlson Originals," host Tucker Carlson travels to El Salvador where he investigates the insidious operations of the violent international gang, MS-13.
While in the nation’s capital, San Salvador, Carlson took part in a ride-along with the city’s police, toured a Salvadorian prison housing members of the MS-13 gang, and snagged an exclusive interview with the country’s new president - who’s cracking down on the "death cult."
In the exclusive, prison inmates are shown being packed 12 men to a cell and are moved to the courtyard as guards forensically examine belongings and living quarters for contraband - such as drugs, weapons, and communication devices.
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There are reportedly over 400 MS-13 gang members currently residing within the prison walls — yet, according to guards that run the prison, there have been no murders.
"We can’t verify that," Carlson quipped.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}One gang member, who is serving a 25-year sentence, agreed to sit down with Carlson for an interview.
"How long were you in the United States?" Carlson asked.
"Maybe like 10 years," the gang member responded.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}When asked how he entered the U.S., the man casually explained that he ‘just took the train.’
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Outside of the prison walls, military and police with automatic weapons and bulletproof vests patrol the city in droves - guarding restaurants, hotels, and even occupying public plazas.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Carlson traveled in an armored SUV with a convoy of Salvadorian politicians in order to move safely through the city and evade MS-13.
"The Tucker Carlson Originals" host noted that MS-13 controls "entire neighborhoods" within the country, extorting citizens in order to remain in business.
As a means of extortion, the gang taxes residents, imposes curfews, kills bus drivers when they don’t pay fees, and even enforces their own laws — including mask mandates — according to the special.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Anyone who resists the gang is killed," Carlson added.
Carlson asked Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, about the MS-13 massive power vacuum within the country—a gang with so much influence that the Salvadorian government even negotiates with them.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Gangs are only 1% of our population here—but they control a lot of territories," Bukele told Carlson.
In the full episode entitled "Hunting MS-13," Fox Nation subscribers can witness as Carlson speaks with a Long Island police officer who had a hit placed on him by the gang, the show’s producers travel with the country's paramilitary forces to raid crime rings, and much more.
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