The Bukele government was made possible by the efforts of the 1992 peace accords, signatories say “The scenario we find ourselves in today, including those who rule us, is a product of the peace accords”: Óscar Santamaría | News from El Salvador

Óscar Santamaría, one of the signatories to the 1992 peace accords, affirmed that the freedoms and democracy that El Salvador is experiencing, including the exercise of President Nayib Bukele’s current government, is “ allowed by the peace accords, no other, El Salvador is one more, after the signing of the peace accords, ”he said.

Santamaría thus reacted after the statements of President Nayib Bukele, who points out that the signing of the peace accords in 1992 was a “farce” and a “hoax”.

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“The whole scenario we find ourselves in now, including those who rule us, is a product of the peace accords,” Santamaría said, but Bukele downplayed it to the extent that he decided to issue an executive decree to celebrate the peace signing. modify. on January 16, for the “Day of the Victims of the Armed Conflict”, something that delegates warn him he cannot do, only the Assembly by legislative decree.

Santamaría claimed that while there are still debts, such as social peace, this corresponds to ‘the Salvadorans are laying the foundation of what we have done, living together peacefully, harmoniously, but it has other challenges, the development’ of the country for example, the peace author said. .

The President of the Assembly, Mario Ponce, of the PCN, regretted that they wanted to obliterate the historic fact that characterized El Salvador and end 12 years of war.

“No one can change the peace accords,” Ponce said, adding that the country is in a democratic, solid state, and for that the National Guard and the Financial Police were abolished, and the National Police was established, but not “subject to one person. , but to the civilian population, ”he reflected.

Ponce said he was part of the blood that stained that stage in El Salvador with the deaths of some of his relatives. “As much as I say the peace accords were a sham, it won’t give me back to my relatives. My blood is part of the armed conflict, ”said Ponce.

Last Monday, the Assembly held a memorial ceremony for the signing of the peace accords, in which the signatories and representatives of the United Nations took part.

Former President Alfredo Cristiani, of ARENA, stated that the peace agreements marked a “special milestone in El Salvador’s history, the Assembly called it the day of the peace agreements, which cannot be legally changed. January 16, 1992 marked the peace accords that ended an armed conflict that the name you want to give it will not change, ”he appreciated.

For Cristiani, the signing of the peace strictly implied political agreements to create spaces for participation that did not exist, that were not economically and socially, which he believed are areas awaiting improvement in the country.

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ARENA’s deputy René Portillo Cuadra said that while Bukele talks about changing the names of legislative decrees, “they spend billions without declaring it, hiding it, wasting money, especially by turning it all into” coronobisnes. ” to make.

“It’s another smokescreen trying to go through the cotangents to avoid the billions of dollars that this government has irresponsibly managed,” said Portillo Cuadra.