El Salvador: Ban commends high turnout for presidential poll, looks forward to working with new Gove

[Judi Lynn]

El Salvador: Ban commends high turnout for presidential poll, looks forward to working with new Government

31 March 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has followed with keen interest the electoral process in El Salvador, whose outcome has been confirmed in the election of Mr. Salvador Sánchez Cerén as President.

“The United Nations looks forward to working closely with the incoming President and his Government to continue to promote human and sustainable development for all Salvadorans, in the spirit of the Peace Accords,” Mr. Ban said in a statement issued by a UN spokesperson in New York.

“The Secretary-General wishes to commend the Salvadoran people for their high turnout in the election as well as the state institutions for their professional handling of the process,” the statement added.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47474&Cr=election&Cr1=#.Uznu4GePLmQ

[Peace Patriot]

1. Now there are FOUR former leftist guerrillas as presidents of LatAm countries!

Salvador Sánchez Cerén--President of El Salvador

Daniel Ortega--President of Nicaragua

Dilma Rousseff--President of Brazil

José Mujica--President of Uruguay.

And several who have been tortured by U.S. trained/funded agents and fascist dictators (Rousseff and Mujica), or have lost friends or family to U.S. backed fascists, including the new president of Chile, Michele Batchelet, whose father was tortured to death by the Nixon-Kissinger agents.

At least FIVE current presidents in Latin America have suffered personally at the bloody hands of U.S.-paid agents. In addition, Evo Morales, current president of Bolivia, was arrested and beaten by U.S. trained/funded police early in his labor leader career, as was recent former president of Brazil, Lula da Silva during his early union organizing. After Morales was elected president of Bolivia, he additionally suffered a U.S. funded/organized coup attempt by white separatists in 2008. One other--Hugo Chavez--was jailed for two years for an armed uprising against a rightwing government that had murdered thousands of poor protestors, became a leftist hero in jail, was elected president in 1998, was kidnapped and his life threatened in a U.S.-supported coup attempt in 2002, but triumphed over all this with huge support from the Venezuelan people. And the current president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro (also a union organizer) is now threatened by U.S. trained/funded fascists who have hoarded essential goods, torched government buildings, destroyed public bus services and bullied, beaten and killed people in an effort to destabilize the country.

These facts not only represent a large amount of legitimate, justifiable grievance against the U.S. among LatAm leaders, but they also represent massive popular support for the policies of these leaders and their allies in Latin America, including pro-labor and pro-poor people policies and the policy of independence from the U.S. The above ex-guerrillas were all forgiven (if not applauded) by the voters of their countries for their previous activities and were voted in as president with big mandates.

This is an extraordinary development, and it is a sad, sad tale of the U.S. always being on the wrong side.

[flamingdem]

2. Wow, that's fascinating PP

I didn't realize this, fantastic book for someone to write.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Four great leaders who cared more about their countries than they cared about US interests.

That will get anyone in his/her own country into a world of pain. We should only hope the worst is over for them by now, but as we know, the crime of duty to one's fellow man isn't nearly as honored as love to someone else's country and to some country's corporations.

These people are true heroes. So few people actually spend their lives trying to feed the poor instead of their own egos.