Ana Mercedes García spends her nights praying for her son, a construction worker with no criminal record who has been held in pretrial detention for three years. Prosecutors have already admitted he was wrongly accused of being a gang member. Her son, Ricardo Ernesto Martínez, was arrested on May 10, 2022, under President Nayib Bukele’s […] The post El Salvador Mothers Denounce Prolonged Gang Crackdown Detentions appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate .