Hundreds of boxes of food from the Salvadoran government’s health emergency program have been distributed in Mexico. Prosecutor General Raúl Melara said he had opened an investigation.
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has opened an investigation to determine how food packages for the Salvadoran population were distributed in a municipality in northern Mexico, as recently published by the digital newspaper El Faro.
According to the publication from February 13, in the previous December, 1,500 packets of food labeled with Salvadoran government logos and coming from the Emergency Sanitary Program (PES), were distributed by Juan Carlos Cazares Sandoval, candidate for mayor for the Morena party officer in Tlahualilo, Durango.
During the vote of the candidates for magistrates, the Attorney General of the Republic confirmed that the distribution of food packages with Salvadoran logos in Mexico is being investigated. Taken from @Teledos_tcs.
SEE: Tax-paid food packages from Salvadorans were delivered to Mexico
“There is an open file, just as we did here when packages were found at an ARENA headquarters, just as we did when packages were found at a Democratic Change headquarters, obviously the Prosecutor’s Office watches over the interests of the state and it is the obligation to confirm whether there really were aid packages for Salvadorans in Mexico … “, the general prosecutor, Raúl Melara, declared this Sunday.
The official provided the statements after its issuance vote in the elections of the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ).
The investigation came after El Faro published that on December 24, 2020, the 1,500 packages were distributed, the equivalent of 30 tons of food.
The distribution was made on December 24, 2020 and subsequently published on the official Facebook page of the irrigation sector number 6, in which it was highlighted that Cazares “in support of the houses of the various ejide that make up the irrigation module delivered today, December 24, 2020, the amount of 1,500 well-stocked pantry, which is equivalent to 30 tons of food.
AND: The prosecutor’s office and the Court of Accounts must investigate the discovery of the packages in Mexico, say deputies
To date, the Nayib Bukele government has remained silent about those 30 tons of food that were paid for with public funds from Salvadoran citizens.
After finding out the news about the distribution of packages in Mexico, the deputies reacted a few days ago asking both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Court of Accounts to investigate what happened ex officio.
Lawmakers agree that the packages are bought with money from loans that “all Salvadorans will pay.” So a thorough investigation is needed to find out who gave the order, they said.