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We share with you the Future: FMLNs Next Generation, Foreign-Born.
On April 26th, 2014 the FMLN's leadership in Washington, DC. gathered some of their young base to show that the party has a bright future.
Here is the result:
El Salvador's Attorney General Office issues an arrest warrant against Former President of El Salvador Francisco Flores.
Today El Salvador's Attorney General Office (FGR) turned in an indictment against former President Francisco Flores, on charges of embezzlement, illicit enrichment and civil disobedience in the case of the $10 million donation his administration received from Taiwan.
The FGR also issued an arrest warrant against Mr. Flores, whose whereabouts are still unknown. He disappeared after the was dismissed as ARENA’s Chief Campaign Manager in the last presidential elections.
Attorney General (AG) Luis Martínez explained that the former president has not yet been located, but said he has had talks with the Minister of Justice and Security , Ricardo Perdomo, about the "need " to locate him immediately to prosecute him.
Martinez emphasized that the accused shall be guaranteed due process in the courts, and suggested that Mr. Flores voluntarily steps forward from wherever he is hiding to face the charges in the courts according to Salvadoran law.
In a national television interview "Frente A Frente", the AG said that "no one could further delay this case due to the risk of prescription". He also assured that this is a serious case, and his decision to prosecute Mr. Flores is not due to media or public pressure, though, he admitted he has received attacks, libel and slander for what the public perceives as “strange passivity” on the part of the AG on this particular case.
Regarding the crime of illicit enrichment, Martinez said that Mr. Flores is being accused for the disappearance of $ 5.3 million, but according to the investigations of the Special Legislative Commission, the figure could be around $ 90 million.
"The investigation is still under development," said Martinez and subsequently confirmed that Flores is now a fugitive wanted by the Salvadoran Justice.
In the meantime ARENA has withdrawn from the case and undone any ties with Mr. Flores.
The Pope Francis met this Friday with Salvadoran President-Elect Salvador Sanchez Ceren, at the Vartican in Rome, in a historical visit in which the ex-guerrilla commandant thanked the Pontif’s efforts to the beatification of San Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
Romero, 62, was killed on March 24, 1980 by death squad members supported by the military when celebrating mass in his Church La Divina Providencia in San Salvador.
His canonization process began in 1994 and, after several years of stagnation, Francisco reactivated the cause in 2013 to beatify and make Romero become the first saint in Salvadoran history.
The audience, at the Pontiff 's Private Library at the Vatican Papal Palaces, lasted for 30 minutes, after which the president-elect said he was " very happy to meet with a Pope so loved by the Salvadoran people ."
Sanchez Ceren asked the Pope’s blessing for his presidency, which begins the first of June, 2014.
The President-Elect kissed the Pope’s ring, as part of the protocol, and reiterated that he was "very happy to be for the first time in the Vatican with the Pope, to whom he gave a painting of the figure of Archbishop Romero, painted by famous artist Joshua Villalta .
He also presented a stole made by artisans of La Palma, in the north of El Salvador, who specialized in making guerrillas combat clothing during the civil war.
The Pope, meanwhile, gave Sanchez Ceren a medallion of a saint and document of the V General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAM ) in Aparecida, Brazil, in 2007.
At parting, Francisco wished a speedy recovery of Margarita Villalta, Sanchez Ceren’s wife, who came to the Vatican walking with a cane due to surgery practiced on her left leg.
The five-person delegation that accompanied Sanchez Ceren were Foreign Minister, Jaime Miranda, Margarita, his wife and two diplomatic representatives accredited to the Vatican.
Sanchez Ceren , 69, who is Catholic , will be the first former guerrilla to come to power in El Salvador and the fourth in Latin America, after Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, José Mujica Uruguayan and Brazilian Dilma Rousseff.
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The cost of the official inauguration of the Government of president-elect Salvador Sanchez Ceren this coming June 1 has been reduced to $983,000, Roberto Lorenzana, new Secretary of Economic Affairs, said yesterday.
At first it, the Legislature had approved $1,404,970 for the official ceremony. But Sanchez Ceren said that that was too high, and unacceptable for country like El Salvador and instructed the transition team to reduce the costs.
Lorenzana also confirmed that the inauguration act will be held at El Salvador’s International Convention Center. After that, a popular gathering will take place in which Sanchez Ceren will share with fellow Salvadorans the beginning of his Administration.
With the 30% reduction in the budget ordered by Sanchez Ceren, the act will become the most austere presidential inauguration in the history of El Salvador, well below the $2 million average of the past 5 inauguration ceremonies.
Protesters gathered outside government offices and detention facilities where undocumented immigrants are transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation.
Organizers said the campaign was prompted by the Obama administration’s record deportations, which are anticipated to hit the milestone of 2 million removals since he took office.
Halting deportations is neccesary, advocates say, because many of those in detention could one day benefit from eventual reform.
In Atlanta, protesters told Al Jazeera correspondent Robert Ray that the Latino community is bearing the brunt of a failed immigration policy. "You don't see Canadians being deported in numbers. Why is the Latino community being persecuted?" said Paulina Helm-Hernandez, co-director of rights group Southerners on New Ground. "We are calling on President Obama to save hard-working families so that generations of people can help America."
In Washington, D.C., on Saturday, families of undocumented immigrants vowed to maintain an indefinite presence at the White House until Obama stops deportations and reunites them with loved ones currently held in detention.
Madrid, Mar 31 (EFE).- A Spanish judge decided Monday to continue the investigation into the murder of five Spanish Jesuits in El Salvador in 1989 despite Spain's recent enactment of a law limiting the application universal jurisdiction.
But in a nod to the new standard, National Court Judge Eloy Velasco dropped the crimes-against-humanity charge against a score of Salvadoran military officers, while maintaining the accusation of terrorist murder.
The law that took effect earlier this month mandates that crimes against humanity committed outside Spanish territory may be prosecuted in Spain only if the alleged perpetrators are Spaniards or foreigners who acquired Spanish citizenship after the commission of the offense.
Besides quashing one of the accusations, the judge has to restrict his investigation to the murder of the five Spaniards among the eight people who were slaughtered.
Velasco decided to move forward with the case despite the fact that universal jurisdiction mandates that all existing probes be shelved, pending a finding that the case meets the new standards.
He said that he felt the reform is "illogical" because, in his judgment, it is "contradictory" that a judge should shelve a case and then decide if it meets the new standards.
Velasco said the only person who may decide whether or not to continue with a case is the investigating magistrate.
In complying with the reform, the judge also asked Spain's Supreme Court to determine if the trial held in El Salvador for the killings was a fraud, as Velasco believes, in which case he would conclude that the murders have not been investigated properly.
On Nov. 16, 1989, Salvadoran soldiers invaded the Central American University campus in San Salvador and killed then-chancellor Ignacio Ellacuria and four other Spanish priests: Segundo Montes, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Amando Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, along with Salvadoran Jesuit Joaquin Lopez.
Also slain were a cook and her 16-year-old daughter.
Only two of the 14 members of the Salvadoran military who stood trial in September 1991 for the murders were found guilty. Though sentenced to 30 years in prison, they were released thanks to the 1993 amnesty.
Luis Martinez, Attorney General of El Salvador, admitted this morning that he is investigating former president of El Salvador Francisco Flores for the crime of money laundering.
While the investigations are underway against former president, the Attorney General requested that the process be respected, as stipulated by law.
Martinez met with the key legislators who are members of the committee of public safety and fight against drug trafficking, gathered in a hotel in downtown San Salvador to analyze the Money Laundering Law, currently under study by El Salvador’s National Assembly.
The investigation against former president Flores focuses on the disappearance of a $10 million donation by the Government of Taiwan to former President Flores to rebuild the country after the earthquake in 2001.
The opposition party ARENA and its presidential Formula, Quijano and Cuadra, who appointed Flores as their General Campaign Manager, dissociated themselves from the investigation.
They told reporters this morning that it is Mr. Flores who must be held accountable for the $10 million donated by Taiwan, not ARENA.
The FMLN’s 2014 Victory Tour initiated this past weekend. The parade was led by presidential ticket, Salvador Sanchez Ceren and Oscar Ortiz, reaching over 500,000 people, in 9 major cities throughout El Salvador, with over 16,000 vehicles packed with thousands of followers.
The parade set off Saturday morning in Apopa and ended Sunday night in Zacatecoluca, stopping in 7 major cities: Santa Ana, Ahuachapan, Sonsonate, Santa Tecla, San Rafael Cedros, San Miguel and Usulutan.
From the top of a tall vehicle, presidential ticket Salvador and Oscar told followers repeatedly, "We are ready to govern El Salvador; we are ready to win the 2014 elections".
"We were the first presidential formula to officially enroll our candidacy in this campaign, so in February 2, 2014, we will win the elections in the first round," shouted loud and clear Salvador Sanchez Ceren, FMLN presidential candidate, in his speech at Nicolas Peña Park, in Zacatecoluca, a major cross-road city in the central region of El Salvador.
The crowds applauded FMLN’s presidential formula as the candidates presented their government plan. "Vote for jobs, vote for safety, vote for education," said Sanchez Ceren to a nearby group that saluted him as he passed by.
On Saturday night his running mate, Oscar Ortiz, reminded thousands of attendees in Sonsonate that the FMLN’s formula is the only formula that stands tall against corruption.
Nationwide, Sanchez Ceren and Ortiz greeted thousands of Salvadorans who, despite the rain and hot temperatures, accompanied the formula and joined a huge caravan that gathered 6,000 cars on Saturday, and more than 10,000 on Sunday.
Salvador and Oscar made a triumphal entry in each of the cities they visited and expressed confidence to thousands of followers and supporters that they will achieve victory next year.
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