Bukele: OAS “agreed” to turn Salvadoran gangs into a party

the president of The SaviorNayib Bukele, posted this Sunday on Twitter that the Organization of American States (OAS) supposedly “agreed” with a plan to turn the gangs into a political party.

“The gangs did not imagine that we already knew that they would try to evolve into a guerrilla”, pointed out the president.

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According to Bukelethis plan “was proposed” by Raúl Mijango, the main mediator in a truce between the gangs between 2012 and 2014, to the government of Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) and his Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, who allegedly “accepted”.

President Bukele He argued, without disclosing evidence, that “the OAS He agreed”.

Bukele He was part of the FMLN and headed the mayor’s offices of Nuevo Cuscatlán and the capital San Salvador under his flag. This party expelled him in 2017.

The Salvadoran president maintained that because of this plan “they received military training at the firing ranges, that’s why they were given weapons” to the gangs.

“Intelligence documents show the whole plan, in order to lead to a second false peace negotiation and turn the gangs into a political party, dividing power in 3″he indicated.

He added that supposedly the journalist Paolo Lüers, also a former mediator in the aforementioned truce, “He was in charge of convincing” to the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) party.

“That is why we have asked for vehicles and equipment for rural warfare since 2019 (although the funds were approved until this Assembly arrived in 2021)”, he indicated and justified that based on this information they are “secret” the last phases of your security plan.

On Friday, Bukele He posted on his Twitter account that the OAS “no longer has any reason to be”. It is not the first time that the Salvadoran head of state criticizes the organization.

Last June, Bukele announced the breaking of an agreement with the OAS that gave life to the International Commission Against Impunity in The Savior (Cicies), a campaign promise.

“We have decided that as Presidency we are also going to break our agreement with the OAS-Cicies because it is complete nonsense that we are trying to fight impunity with precisely the people who are promoting impunity in El Salvador”said Bukele at the time at a press conference.

This rupture occurred after the announcement by the general secretary of the OASLuis Almagro, of having the former mayor of San Salvador Ernesto Muyshondt, criminally prosecuted in The Savior and that he has denounced being a victim of beatings and mistreatment in prison.

In that occasion, Bukele asserted that “you can no longer trust the OAS” because, in his opinion, he is “promoting a political agenda” and there was a “granting of impunity to a criminal”, in reference to Muyshondt.

In a later statement, the OAS affirmed that his discrepancies with the Government of The Savior about the tasks the Cicies do “Impossible to continue the work of the commission”. Before this break, a representative of the Cicies had submitted notices to the Prosecutor’s Office about alleged corruption in the management of funds intended for the attention of the covid-19 pandemic.

The Savior It is under an emergency regime approved at the end of March and extended twice by Congress after an escalation of homicides that claimed the lives of 87 people in three days.

An investigation by El Faro indicates that this escalation of violence was triggered after the alleged breaking of a pact between the Government and the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS13).

The government of Bukele He has not commented on this accusation.

Last December, the United States sanctioned two officials from Bukele for the “secret negotiations” with the MS13.

Source: Elcomercio

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