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Weekly Report - 01 December 2011 (WR-11-48)
EL SALVADOR: FMLN: Funes needs fiscal not Faustian pact
The significance of the appointment of David Munguía Payés as El Salvador’s new public security and justice minister cannot be overstated. Not even under the succession of right-wing governments that ruled El Salvador between the signing of the peace accords in 1992 and 2009 did a military man hold the top law and order post. For the country’s first left-wing government to appoint Munguía, a retired general, caused a furore. Veteran guerrillas in the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), which brought President Mauricio Funes to power, argue that his appointment was part of a pact with the US, and will lead to the militarisation of the police and more repression when what El Salvador needs to tackle violent crime is fiscal reform and greater social investment.
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