Yulan Andony Archaga Carías

Yulan Andony Archaga Carías, also known as “Alexander Mendoza” and “Porky,” is one of the most important MS-13 figures outside El Salvador because U.S. prosecutors identify him as the highest-ranking member of the organization in Honduras. His profile opens the Honduran branch of the the archive network and creates a direct connection between MS-13’s Salvadoran leadership, cocaine trafficking routes through Central America and the organization’s international supply relationships.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Archaga Carías in federal court in Manhattan with racketeering, narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses. Prosecutors allege that, as the top leader of MS-13 in Honduras, he directed the gang’s drug-trafficking operations, coordinated violent acts including murders and participated in laundering drug proceeds. The government further alleges that the Honduran MS-13 network under his leadership handled multi-ton quantities of cocaine moving through Honduras toward the United States. These are allegations contained in federal charging documents and must remain identified as allegations unless established in court.

Archaga Carías is structurally important because the Honduran branch is not merely an isolated national copy of MS-13. Federal filings describe a broader transnational organization active across El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States. His profile therefore belongs under a dedicated “MS-13 Honduras” organization node while remaining linked upward to the global MS-13 parent entity.

The narcotics component distinguishes the Honduran branch from some of the leadership material already developed around El Salvador. The Salvadoran Ranfla cases emphasize command structures, political negotiations, clique governance and the Mexico Program. The Honduras case adds large-scale cocaine logistics. This gives the archive a route toward the drug-trafficking networks that connect Central America to South America, particularly the supply chains that originate farther south and move north through Honduras.

Archaga Carías also connects to several other named defendants and associates. DOJ filings identify David Campbell, Juan Carlos Portillo Santos, Victor Eduardo Morales Zelaya and Jorge Alberto Velasquez Paz as figures in the same Honduran MS-13 trafficking and leadership case. Those relationships form the first dense Honduran subgraph and give the site enough material to avoid creating a single isolated country page.

By April 2025, U.S. authorities continued to describe Archaga Carías as a fugitive and offered a reward of up to five million dollars for information leading to his arrest or conviction. He had been placed on multiple U.S. most-wanted lists. Because fugitive status can change, the archive should preserve these statements as date-stamped procedural records rather than permanent current-status labels.

Within the knowledge graph, Archaga Carías should link bidirectionally to MS-13, MS-13 Honduras, the Southern District of New York Honduras leadership case, David Campbell and the other Honduran leaders charged with him. His narcotics relationships should later connect to South American supply-side entities only where indictments, court records or high-quality investigations identify the actual counterparties. The site should not infer a Colombian or other South American cartel relationship merely from the fact that cocaine passed through Honduras.

That restraint is important because Archaga Carías is precisely the kind of profile from which a regional network can grow responsibly. He gives the archive a documented Honduras hub, a trafficking bridge toward the north and a future route toward South America once the upstream suppliers can be identified from reliable records.