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How El Salvadors Supreme Court Is Undermining DemocracyWith Washingtons Help
WikiLeaks has exposed US government collusion with the chambers destabilization strategy.
By Hilary Goodfriend
August 8, 2015
On July 20, 2015, the government of El Salvador issued an official warning that right-wing forces are orchestrating a movement for a coup détat, against the government of the people, a legal government, a legitimate government that fights every day for the interests of the population.
Its not the first time allegations of coup-plotting have arisen lately in the small Central American republic. Two months after the March 1 mid-term elections, El Salvador found itself without a legislature. In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Courts constitutional chamber had suspended the swearing-in of the newly elected representatives pending a recount, effectively shutting down an entire branch of government. The current president of the National Legislative Assembly called the action a technical coup détat. The US Embassy called it institutionality.
The past several weeks in El Salvador have seen the escalation of a series of tactics that state officials and activists have deemed part of a soft coup strategy against the countrys democratically elected progressive government. Since the 2014 inauguration of leftist President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, a spike in gang-related homicides has strained state resources, in what Police Chief Mauricio Landaverde has called a deliberate campaign ordered by gang leaders to increase murder rates with possible political motives. Earlier this month, a group of armed soldiers in uniform rallied to demand greater compensation; military leadership disavowed their actions and charged fourteen of them with sedition. Last week, gang threats against bus drivers caused the suspension of dozens of mass-transit routes throughout the San Salvador metropolitan area, which officials deemed an act of sabotage against the population. Right-wing groups have circulated calls on social media for the presidents resignation, and the countrys conservative mass medias onslaught against the governing party contributes daily to a climate of insecurity.
In fact, plans to undermine leftist governance in El Salvador go back years before the election of Sánchez Cerén, the first guerrilla leader of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party to become president of El Salvador. The strategy centers on the countrys Supreme Courtand the US government has been in on it from the beginning.
More:
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-el-salvadors-supreme-court-is-undermining-democracy-with-washingtons-help/
Good reads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016129860
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WDIM
(1,662 posts)The documentation of abuse of power and influence in Mexico to South America is astoundly against the US Government. This is yet another example. And. Obama being at the top would be to blame for not stopping it. Where is the change Obama? Why dont you get your agencies in order. And stop violating international law and the common law of humanity.
Judi Lynn
(160,611 posts)living day by day with the knowledge he and his entire family could be wiped out instantly if he/she dares to offend the military industrial machine by making one move too many they don't like.
There's got to be some explanation the pure evil committed against people in the Western Hemisphere for political reasons hasn't been deeply transformed, yet.
WDIM
(1,662 posts)The consistency of policy and actions by our government for the last 30 to 40 years or more shows to me that people other than the president are setting the policy.
We continue to interfere in elections in south america we continue to provide support for rebel groups that fight against democratically elected governments that we dont like. Its just more of the same and it doesnt matter who the President is.