Osiris Luna Meza

Osiris Luna Meza (born 8 February 1989) is a Salvadoran politician who currently serves as the General Director of Penal Centers and the Vice Minister of Justice and Public Security.

[6] On 4 June 2019, Rogelio Rivas, the Minister of Justice and Public Security, named Luna his selection to become the General Director of Penal Centers[5] to replace Orlando Elías Molina Ríos who was serving in an interim capacity,[7] however, the Legislative Assembly blocked his appointment.

[8][9] Luna promised to "carry out an audit into the financial and work aspects" ("hacer una auditoría en el aspecto financiero y de trabajo") within the DGCP and to "seek to clarify" ("buscará esclarecer") the internal organization of the country's prisons.

He ordered Luna to lockdown the country's prisons, lock inmates in their cells for 24 hours, and place the gangs' leaders in solitary confinement indefinitely.

The series of murders led to Bukele calling for a large-scale gang crackdown and state of exception which was approved by the Legislative Assembly on 27 March 2022.

[15] Luna stated that prisoners would be made to work to "compensate for some of the damage they did to society" and that "all the terrorists who [caused] grief and pain to the Salvadoran people will serve their sentences [...] under the most severe regime".

[20] That same month, the El Faro digital newspaper alleged that Luna, his mother, and a DGCP employee had illegally sold 42,909 food packets containing rice, beans, maize, and oil intended for COVID-19 patients as a part of the Health Emergency Program.

[21] In September 2020, the El Faro alleged that Luna and Carlos Marroquín, the chairman of the Social Fabric Reconstruction Unit, had secretly negotiated with the country's criminal gangs on behalf of Bukele's government.

El Faro claimed that it acquired logbooks reportedly showing Luna and Marroquín entering the Zacatecoluca and Izalco prisons to meet and negotiate with imprisoned gang leaders.

His named was added to the Engel List—a report which lists individuals in Central America accused of corruption or undermining democracy—and subsequently had his travel visa to the United States canceled.

Luna guiding Bukele and other government officials on a tour of CECOT.
Video surveillance inside a prison supposedly depicting Luna (labeled 1) during alleged negotiations with gangs.