The State Department is announcing a reward for those providing information leading to the arrest or conviction of MS-13 leaders. The reward, up to $10 million for Yulan Adonay Archaga Carías, known as “Porky,” and up to $5 million for Víctor Eduardo Morales Zelaya, known as “Cuervo,” comes as MS-13 was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by President Trump.
Court documents indicated that the two leaders are the “highest-ranking members of MS-13 in Honduras and are responsible for directing the gang’s criminal activities, including drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, kidnappings, and other violent crimes,” the State Department explained. “They are also responsible for the gang’s importation of large amounts of cocaine into the United States.”
Archaga Carías is listed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list, as well as one of the most wanted fugitives on the DEA’s and Homeland Security Investigations’ lists.
In January 2025, President Trump designated cartels and other entities as FTOs. “The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States,” the order says. “In certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society.”
“The Cartels’ activities threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere,” it explains. “Their activities, proximity to, and incursions into the physical territory of the United States pose an unacceptable national security risk to the United States.”
