Government Negligence in Responding to Violence Draws Sharp Criticism
This past Wednesday, the FMLN introduced a legislative resolution calling on Rodrigo Avila, director of the National Civilian Police (PNC), and Felix Garrid Safie, Attorney General, to testify about why these institutions have done nothing to investigate reports of extermination groups. The existence of these "social cleansing" bands has been denounced by several Human Rights organizations based on the increasing number of assassinations carried out in classic death-squad style. The extrajudicial executions have targeted not only youth from the marginal and excluded sectors of society, but also recognized FMLN activists like the elderly Manzanares, and - more recently -Alex Flores Montoya and Mercedes Pe

"I am a CISPES supporter because continuing to fight for social justice and a more people-centered country means continuing the dream and sacrifice of thousands of my fellow Salvadorans who died for that vision.” - Padre Carlos, New York City

