At a press conference outside Rosales Hospital, the FMLN general secretary described the first statements made by El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, as repugnant, following the armed attack on that party’s militants, which killed two people and wounded two. .
After considering President Nayib Bukele’s initial reactions to the attack that killed two member activists last night, FMLN Party Secretary General Oscar Ortiz called on the Bukele government and the official party to not arouse hatred “.
“I read what the person who claims to be president said in a tweet. It’s a shame what he said … You really want to throw up with the words of a man who calls himself president. He is an irresponsible type with expressions like this. I can’t find the words to tell him when he sees the situation, ”he said during an impromptu conference with journalists outside Rosales Hospital.
In an official statement, the FMLN believed that this attack was “the result of an ongoing campaign of hatred by the Presidential House and President Bukele” against the Left Party and its militancy.
Ortiz rejected a preliminary report that the attack was committed by fights between drunken football fans, which he considered “distracting”. “No team deserves to be involved in this kind of thing because it is a criminal, political act, an attack, a terrorist act that must be investigated,” he stressed.
The left-wing leader said the party will decide what action to take and called on the international community to observe “the collapse of the rule of law and democracy”.
“We have had acts of violence in the past, but not of this severity. A deliberate hate campaign and hate campaign building and unnecessary confrontation is taking place in the country, ”Ortiz said, clearly referring to the discourse that has kept the current regime in power for a year and a half.
However, the left-wing leader warned that “violence reaches us all,” as happens with gang violence. “Political and social violence also reaches all of us, so we have to make sure these things don’t happen.”
“You can’t want to burn a field of reed if it is there,” he reflected.
“We’re not intimidating or cowardly, but it doesn’t mean we won’t report it, that we won’t make people feel how serious it happened,” he stressed. “It pains us to see our dead companions … It was a ferocious attack, shooting down the car in which children and adults were driving. This has no name … it is a “wild” event that has been unprecedented in recent times, “he concluded.
Ortiz refers to this tweet:
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