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Weekly Report - 26 January 2012 (WR-12-04)
EL SALVADOR: Funes leans on military crutch
Just one week after rebuking the military for paying homage to former “heroes” of the civil war accused of human rights abuses, President Mauricio Funes appointed a retiring General as director of the Policía Nacional Civil (PNC). Francisco Ramón Salinas, the deputy defence minister, replaces Carlos Ascencio, a former guerrilla commander at the head of the PNC. Funes has now appointed military men to head both the public security and justice ministry and the national police force, but while these were controversial appointments, there were far stranger things to come.
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