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Weekly Report - 15 January 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)
EL SALVADOR: Arena links FMLN to mara gangs
President Tony Saca accused the left-wing opposition Frente Farabundo
Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) last week of forging links with the
mara gangs and other armed groups. He said his government would send an
inter-ministerial report on the issue to the Organization of American States
(OAS) and the UN. The content of the report is less important than the timing of
its presentation. It is designed to have maximum impact on the legislative
elections on 18 January and presidential elections on 15 March, both of which
the FMLN is favourite to win.
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