Carlos Tiberio Ramírez-Valladares

Carlos Tiberio Ramírez-Valladares, known as “Snayder de Pasadena,” is a senior MS-13 figure charged in the Ranfla II prosecution whose record is especially significant for the history of negotiations between gang leaders and the government of El Salvador. Federal prosecutors identify him as an important MS-13 leader, a member of the Ranfla Nacional and a spokesman for the organization during negotiations with Salvadoran officials.

The 2022 indictment alleges that Ramírez-Valladares served as a key participant in those negotiations. That role makes his profile different from a purely operational or clique-based biography. It places him directly inside one of the most important political and criminal storylines in modern Salvadoran history: the repeated contacts, negotiations, concessions and alleged arrangements involving gang leadership and government actors. the archive should eventually treat that subject as a major Event/Explainer cluster rather than scattering it across individual biographies.

His alias links him to Pasadena. The Pasadena clique therefore deserves a canonical page beneath the wider MS-13 organization. As with other clique nodes in the project, the page should begin conservatively: document only the people and relationships supported by reliable sources, then expand as further court filings, sanctions records and investigations provide additional evidence.

Ramírez-Valladares also strengthens the Ranfla Nacional graph. The earlier Henriquez case already created a core set of alleged Ranfla Nacional figures, while Ranfla II adds defendants whose careers cut across multiple leadership structures and phases of the organization. By linking Ramírez-Valladares to the Ranfla Nacional and Pasadena simultaneously, the archive can show how clique identity and senior command status were not mutually exclusive.

When the Ranfla II indictment was unsealed in February 2023, the Department of Justice listed Ramírez-Valladares among six co-defendants believed to be in custody in El Salvador. U.S. authorities stated that extradition options would be explored. This should be stored as a dated procedural status, not as a timeless current-status assertion.

The broader prosecution charges thirteen alleged MS-13 leaders with racketeering conspiracy, terrorism-related conspiracy and narco-terrorism conspiracy, while four defendants also face an alien-smuggling conspiracy allegation resulting in death. Prosecutors describe the defendants collectively as part of MS-13’s command-and-control structure and accuse them of helping direct operations in El Salvador, Mexico, the United States and elsewhere. Those statements remain allegations unless established in court.

Ramírez-Valladares should link bidirectionally to MS-13, Pasadena, the Ranfla Nacional and the Ranfla II case. His profile should also connect to a future canonical event or explainer covering negotiations between MS-13 leaders and the Salvadoran government. Because that topic involves political actors and contested claims, the eventual page should clearly separate court allegations, documented meetings and competing interpretations.

In the the archive graph, Ramírez-Valladares is therefore a bridge from the criminal hierarchy into the gang-state negotiations storyline. His profile helps move the El Salvador section beyond a collection of gang biographies and toward a structured history of organizations, leadership systems, political contacts and criminal cases.

Ramírez-Valladares also helps anchor chronology. His alleged role in negotiations places him in the period when senior MS-13 figures were not only directing criminal activity but also appearing in political and security narratives surrounding attempted truces and bargaining with state actors. That historical role should be cross-linked carefully as those event pages are built from primary and high-quality investigative sources.

Documented network

RB ORG MS13 (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This label is preserved without inferring a broader association.

RB ORG RANFLA_NACIONAL (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This label is preserved without inferring a broader association.

RB ORG PASADENA_CLIQUE (organization) is recorded in the canonical graph as member of or associated with, documented status, 90% confidence. This label is preserved without inferring a broader association.

RB CASE US_V_AREVALO_CHAVEZ_RANFLA_II (case) is recorded in the canonical graph as defendant in, documented status, 90% confidence. This label is preserved without inferring a broader association.

Status and record

The structured life-status field is unknown. This administrative value should change only when a reliable current source supports an update.

Source record

The Master package currently attaches these sources to the profile: – Three of the Highest-Ranking MS-13 Leaders in the World Arrested on Terrorism and Racketeering Charges — U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, Tier 1. – United States v. Arevalo-Chavez et al. indictment (inline text) — U.S. District Court / U.S. Department of Justice, Tier 1.

The presence of a source does not mean it supports every sentence. Claim-level source references remain in the structured data for later audits.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

For living subjects in particular, legal status and allegations require dated evidence. Future expansion should therefore come from stronger records, court material, archival documents or newly processed canonical entities rather than generalized crime lore.

How this profile fits the archive

The source package currently includes Three of the Highest-Ranking MS-13 Leaders in the World Arrested on Terrorism and Racketeering Charges; United States v. Arevalo-Chavez et al. indictment (inline text). Those records define the safe editorial boundary for this version of the page. Unknown dates and unresolved associations remain explicit because a missing fact is a research task, not permission to speculate.