Democrat Jim McGovern lamented President Nayib Bukele’s attack on human rights defenders. Congressman Eliot Engel joined McGovern and pointed out to Bukele that the victims earn more from the government.
The US Congressman, Jim McGovern, noted that “it is a pity that (President Nayib Bukele) used that national televised speech to attack the human rights defender (Apolonio Tobar) and (David Morales) the chief attorney for the victims in the massacre’s trial. (in El Mozote) (from 1981) ”.
The Democratic congressman’s opinion stems from President Nayib Bukele’s words in a speech he delivered last Thursday at El Mozote, where he not only said the peace accords are a ‘farce’ but also attacked the lawyer for the defense of Human Rights, Apolonio Tobar; and to Cristosal’s lawyer and representative of the victims of El Mozote, David Morales, a former human rights lawyer.
“As recently as they had an event that Apolonio came up with, what’s his name? David Morales, the former prosecutor who is taking advantage of the people, is living off the case,” President Nayib Bukele said on Thursday. El Mozote, to promise works in that place.
Congressman McGovern not only pointed out that the president had come to El Mozote by helicopter, but also reminded the Salvadoran president that he is awaiting a court order to give Judge Jorge Guzmán access to military files.
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“If Nayib Bukele really wants to show that he is with the victims and justice, he must give Judge Guzmán access to the military files as required by a court order. That would be an important act, ”the congressman posted on his Twitter account.
To these words was added the views of Eliot Engel, a congressman who chairs the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Relations, who responded to McGovern’s publication saying, “I agree, the victims of the El Mozote massacre earns much more from their government, ”said the US official.
The Salvadoran president said repeatedly in his speech that the war and the peace agreements are a “farce” and merely a negotiation between two leaders.
“The war was a farce, they killed more than 75,000 people between the two parties, including the 1,000 from here El Mozote and it was a farce, like the peace agreements, ‘it affects the peace agreements’, yes, I tarnish them because They were a farce, a negotiation between two leaders, or what benefits have the peace accords brought to the Salvadorans? ”President Bukele said in El Mozote.
In addition, the government insists on concealing the files of the El Mozote massacre and does not comply with the Court’s ruling
Former human rights lawyer David Morales responded to President Bukele’s statements, posting on his Twitter profile that “#ElMozote today (last Thursday) received false and hateful speeches. Full of demagogic promises. Again they were lied to about the military files. Blood and suffering are priceless @nayibbukele; on the contrary, they always reveal cynicism and complicity, ”said the lawyer on the social network.
At least 1,000 people were killed in the 1981 El Mozote massacre in a riot operation in December of that year in the cantons of El Mozote, La Joya and Los Toriles in Morazán.
Up to October last year, there were four times that the armed forces, with the support of President Nayib Bukele, have denied that legal proceedings are being conducted in four of their military garrisons to allow the judge of the case to access the files, in which they only are trying to gather possible evidence that will clarify the massacre committed in the armed conflict in 1981.
In the four attempts of San Francisco Gotera investigating magistrate Jorge Guzmán, he has provided explanations for accessing the files, and just as often the armed forces have shielded them from keeping “secret” documents in their attachments to block inspections.
While the Constitutional Chamber has ruled that the documents are not confidential, President Bukele has justified the blockade because the judge in the case has no jurisdiction. He has also argued the confidentiality of the documents kept at military headquarters and has even said that the intention is to enter the institutions, review strategic security plans.