The last leg of Latin-American Barack Obama is not the least important: after Brazil and Chile, El Salvador, Tuesday, March 22. It's one of those countries weakened by the crisis, attracted by the petrodollars of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, bete noire of Washington. Between the American president and his Salvadoran counterpart, Mauricio Funes, the hot issues abound: uncontrolled immigration, drug trafficking and insecurity stemming from poverty.
Ultraviolent youth gangs, the maras have made the country of El Salvador homicide rate highest in Latin America (sixteen murders per day). The Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Security, Manuel Melgar, should stay away from talks between the two presidents. For Americans, there is a real plague.
Former guerrilla Mr. Melgar has participated in the massacre of the Zona Rosa in San Salvador in 1985, during which four marines were killed. No official of the United States would not appear on a photo with such a character. The entourage Mauricio Funes, who was elected as the candidate of the Frente Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the ex-guerrilla, a second figure includes sulfur: Jorge Melendez, responsible for civil protection, is one of the alleged killers of poet Roque Dalton (1935-1975), a supporter of the Cuban revolution executed by his own comrades in arms.
The circumstances of the death of this prestigious intellectual were elucidated by Joaquin Villalobos, a former commander of the FMLN, involved himself in what he considers "the biggest mistake of his life." In an interview with journalist Juan José Dalton, son of the poet, Mr. Villalobos has acknowledged that political differences had been transformed into fanciful charges punishable by summary execution.
Benjamin Cuellar, director of the Institute of Human Rights of the Central American University (UCA), held by the Jesuits, considers the murder of Roque Dalton as iconic as that of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, killed by a commando of the extreme right in 1980. Obama should bow at his tomb.
"These are the two most universal Salvadorans," says Cuellar. "I could not believe that the first leftist government of Salvador was going to overlook the murder of my father and even promote a highly responsible one of his assassins," Juan Jose Dalton indignant. With filmmaker Jorge Dalton, her brother, they turned to the president Funes, who referred them to justice.
In May 2010, the Dalton family filed a complaint. If the matter were to be closed, she said, willing to use the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. As for the assassination of Archbishop Romero in 1980 and the six Jesuits of the UCA massacre in 1989, symbols of the impunity in El Salvador.
Paulo A. Paranagua (Special Envoy in San Salvador) Article published in the edition of 23.03.11 
Ultraviolent youth gangs, the maras have made the country of El Salvador homicide rate highest in Latin America (sixteen murders per day). The Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Security, Manuel Melgar, should stay away from talks between the two presidents. For Americans, there is a real plague.
Former guerrilla Mr. Melgar has participated in the massacre of the Zona Rosa in San Salvador in 1985, during which four marines were killed. No official of the United States would not appear on a photo with such a character. The entourage Mauricio Funes, who was elected as the candidate of the Frente Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the ex-guerrilla, a second figure includes sulfur: Jorge Melendez, responsible for civil protection, is one of the alleged killers of poet Roque Dalton (1935-1975), a supporter of the Cuban revolution executed by his own comrades in arms.
The circumstances of the death of this prestigious intellectual were elucidated by Joaquin Villalobos, a former commander of the FMLN, involved himself in what he considers "the biggest mistake of his life." In an interview with journalist Juan José Dalton, son of the poet, Mr. Villalobos has acknowledged that political differences had been transformed into fanciful charges punishable by summary execution.
Benjamin Cuellar, director of the Institute of Human Rights of the Central American University (UCA), held by the Jesuits, considers the murder of Roque Dalton as iconic as that of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, killed by a commando of the extreme right in 1980. Obama should bow at his tomb.
"These are the two most universal Salvadorans," says Cuellar. "I could not believe that the first leftist government of Salvador was going to overlook the murder of my father and even promote a highly responsible one of his assassins," Juan Jose Dalton indignant. With filmmaker Jorge Dalton, her brother, they turned to the president Funes, who referred them to justice.
In May 2010, the Dalton family filed a complaint. If the matter were to be closed, she said, willing to use the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. As for the assassination of Archbishop Romero in 1980 and the six Jesuits of the UCA massacre in 1989, symbols of the impunity in El Salvador.
Paulo A. Paranagua (Special Envoy in San Salvador) Article published in the edition of 23.03.11
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