Nearly 100 national and international figures, including academics, politicians, historians, peace signatories and former diplomats, signed an open letter to President Bukele.
Worried about statements by President Nayib Bukele in the village of El Mozote on December 17 last year, in which the historic act of January 16, 1992 that marked the beginning of peace in El Salvador after 12 years of war, 97 national and international personalities, political leaders, academics, historians, and peace signatories signed an open letter addressed to the President.
“We are referring specifically to your allusions to the armed conflict and to the Peace Accords as a farce. Us
He is concerned that, as President, he is easily concerned about important issues. Certainly, El Salvador still has formidable economic and social challenges. These problems, with deep historical roots, have led to a bloody armed conflict that has claimed more than 75,000 lives and left orphaned children and helpless family members with a broken heart that deserves respect, ”says part of the letter.
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The letter is also supported by former US White House officials and former heads of United Nations missions, MEPs, rectors and professors at local universities such as UCA and international universities such as Yale in the United States.
The letter indicates that without the peace agreements, the armed conflict would have continued to destroy lives and sabotage the Salvadoran economy. “The agreements were not unnecessary and they were not a hoax,” they say.
They also claim that the progress made by El Salvador has been since the signing of the pact, since the beginning of the construction of a democratic society that would allow the population to have a reliable electoral system that makes it possible to alternate in power without political violence. some “Armed forces far from politics and subordinate to civilian power. An environment of freedom in which civil society can debate, without fear, the country’s problems “.
The signatories of the letter also point to the establishment of a “free press that has contributed to
unmask corruption cases and shed light on issues that need to be corrected, ”through free access to public information.
They also say that the agreements have a reliable judicial system of the country, the effective separation of
state powers that allow institutions to be respected, the creation of the Office of the Prosecutor for the Defense of Human Rights and the work of the Truth Commission facilitated the first steps to end “impunity” in the country, a situation that is still unfinished, but the government can help achieve this.
For the signatories, the war has taught that conflicts are resolved on the road. They acknowledge that there are things to overcome, such as poverty and the promotion of peace, but explain that the armed conflict has abandoned the teaching that it must be resolved by means other than “preaching hatred and sharing among brethren,” without military intervention. “It is up to all citizens, and especially to you, President Bukele, as head of state, to honor the memory of the victims of the armed conflict by strengthening the positive legacy of the peace agreements,” they urged.
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