Jorge Alberto Velasquez Paz

Jorge Alberto Velasquez Paz, known as “Chacarron,” is one of the Honduran MS-13 leaders charged in the federal case that also names Yulan Andony Archaga Carías and several other senior figures. U.S. prosecutors describe Velasquez Paz as a leader of MS-13 in Honduras and a close associate of Archaga Carías, placing him within the organization’s national command and trafficking network.

The April 2024 superseding indictment charges Velasquez Paz with racketeering, narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses. The Justice Department alleges that the Honduran MS-13 organization participated in receiving, processing, transporting and distributing multi-ton cocaine shipments and used violence to support those operations. These are allegations and should not be represented as proven conduct absent a conviction or guilty plea.

For the archive, Velasquez Paz contributes to a critical shift in scale. The original El Salvador package was built largely around the Ranfla Nacional, Ranfla en las Calles, clicas and the Mexico Program. The Honduras cluster adds a national leadership structure whose public federal case is heavily tied to cocaine logistics. That makes the Honduran branch a natural bridge toward the larger Latin American trafficking system.

Velasquez Paz also creates a strong relationship with Victor Eduardo Morales Zelaya. DOJ described both men as leaders in Honduras and close associates of Archaga Carías. Those links should be modeled explicitly as co-defendant and leadership-network relationships while avoiding unsupported assumptions about relative rank or personal command chains.

The government stated in April 2024 that Velasquez Paz was in custody in Honduras. This status should be recorded with the announcement date and updated if later extradition, sentencing or release information becomes available. the archive’s status bar can distinguish between “in custody in Honduras as of April 2024” and a current status that has been independently verified later.

The case connects Velasquez Paz to David Campbell, an alleged principal supplier of drugs and weapons to MS-13 in Honduras. This gives the graph both an internal leadership layer and an alleged supply layer. The distinction is useful when the network expands: leaders, suppliers, transporters and external cartel contacts can occupy different relationship types rather than all being treated as members of one organization.

Within the archive, Velasquez Paz should link bidirectionally to MS-13, MS-13 Honduras, Archaga Carías, Morales Zelaya, Portillo Santos, Campbell and the Southern District of New York Honduras case. He should also attach to the broader cocaine-transit theme that will later provide a source-gated bridge toward South American supplier organizations.

Velasquez Paz is therefore an important regional connector despite having less public biographical material than the most famous MS-13 figures. His documented place within the Honduran leadership case helps turn Central America into a continuous graph rather than a collection of separate national stories.

Velasquez Paz also strengthens the case for representing Honduras as a distinct operational layer. The public indictment does not merely mention the country as a place where members were present; it describes a leadership network tied to trafficking, violence and logistics on a scale large enough to merit its own regional organization page. That structure can later absorb additional Honduran cliques and figures without forcing them into the Salvadoran Ranfla model.

The profile should also remain open to future judicial updates. If later proceedings establish a sentence, extradition or other outcome, those facts can be added as dated events while the original 2024 allegations remain historically intact. That approach is important for the archive because it allows a reader to follow how a criminal case develops instead of seeing only the latest status stripped of context.