Two dead and five injured in an attack on left-wing militants in El Salvador

An attack carried out by unknown persons in the heart of San Salvador against a caravan of militants from the former guerrilla Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN, left) left “two dead and five wounded” on Sunday., the attorney general reported.

The event takes place less than a month before the parliamentary elections, and days after President Nayib Bukele criticized the peace agreements between the army and the then guerrillas to end the civil war in 1992.

“This is serious, the election contest must not become a bloodbathAttorney General Raúl Melara said on Twitter.

“We have never experienced anything so dramatic in the 29 years of peace agreements,” said FMLN Secretary General Óscar Ortiz.

According to the deputy of the current political party FMLN, Nidia Díaz, the incident took place in the center of San Salvador when “with impunity” the aggressor crossed a car, got out with a gun in hand and started shooting “at the caravan”.

“That’s the hatred Bukele has,” he added.

Díaz called the Public Prosecution Service to investigate because the crime “cannot go unpunished”.

“We investigate now, we will prosecute those responsibleThe prosecutor said Melara.

Meanwhile, Bukele announced on Twitter that police were looking for those responsible, stating that “the full weight of the law will fall on them.”

Melara convened the general secretaries of all political parties on Monday for an “urgent” meeting., to discuss measures to prevent violence during conversion campaigns.

The campaign for the February 28 parliamentary elections in El Salvador began on December 27 for deputies and on January 27 for mayors.

In the election, approximately 5.4 million Salvadorans will have to elect the 84 deputies of the unicameral Congress, as well as the country’s 262 mayors and its councils.

They will also have to elect about 20 representatives from the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), a political institution dedicated to the integration of the countries of the region.

10 political formations participate in the election campaign. The New Ideas (NI) party, the establishment of which was promoted by President Bukele, is starting as a broad favorite in those elections, according to the latest polls.

Bukele announced in mid-January the end of the commemorations of the peace accords led by the UN and signed by the military and the FMLN, which ended the bloody 12-year civil war on January 16, 1992. Instead, he settled a day. for the victims.

(With information from AFP)

MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC:

Alejandro Gutman’s bet to transform El Salvador: “The gang member doesn’t want his son to be a gang member, but for that he needs to be integrated”