In a virtual conversation led by Dialogue Interamericano, the state legislator lamented that El Salvador’s democracy is in turmoil and that the culture of impunity is present.
Jim McGovern, Member of the Chamber of Representatives of the United States Congress, is probably the official of this country who is most familiar with El Salvador and the states that support his democracy.
Four decades after his first visit, and since he went to El Salvador as early as ten years ago, he has been able to identify the advance of El Salvador from the civil war to the establishment of a new institution, but there are already serious graves.
In a conversation organized by the Inter-American Dialogue, the Democratic legislature demonstrated that there was “deception and preoccupation” with the authoritative truck that was located in El Salvador.
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In the years before Bukele’s presidency, McGovern has faced a critical barrage of some episodes of abuse of power by the Bukele administration, including the military assembly of the Legislative Assembly in February 2020 on institutional and deregulation. humanos.
In the virtual forum, the congressman expresses preoccupation with the intentions of socavar the freedom of the press, debilitates the civil society and the opponents or the critics of the government. These sons, dijo, “tendentious tendencies that our deberían preoccupy to all”.
McGovern affirms that the Congressional Assembly will monitor the events in El Salvador and will be able to support its democracy.
In addition, it is stated that there will be candidates to show that “the President or the recently elected Electoral Commissioner in the Legislative Assembly, democratically elected, will not use these democratic media to pass an authoritarian system”.
Culture of the following impunity
Jim McGovern also lamented that in El Salvador, the culture of impunity has not lost ground or has lost its reputation. More of the corruption among elites and the failure of caste to the misuse of public recourse, lamenting that massacres like that of El Mozote, in December 1981, followed the impunity.
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At the same time, Jorge Guzmán of San Francisco Gotera approved the removal of the jeweler in this case.
“Guzman was following the case with professionalism and the president’s attacks, his government and his actions against him,” McGovern said.
In addition, General Prosecutor Raúl Melara called for an obstacle in Guzmán’s work to find the world behind the most violent massacre of civil war.