In a press conference in front of the Rosales Hospital, the Secretary General of the FMLN described as repulsive the first statements of the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, after the armed attack on militants of this party, which left a balance of two dead and two wounded.
After calling President Nayib Bukele’s first reactions to the bombing that killed two Efemelenist activists last night “vomiting”, FMLN party general secretary Oscar Ortiz called on the Bukele government and the official party “not to generate hatred.”
“I read what he said what he says he is president through a tweet. It’s unfortunate what he said … They really make you want to vomit with the words of a guy who is said to be president. With that kind of expression is an irresponsible kind. I can’t find words to tell him when he’s seeing the situation, “he said at an impromptu conference with reporters on the outskirts of Rosales Hospital.
In an official statement, the FMLN considered that this attack “is the result of a sustained hate campaign by Presidential House and President Bukele” against the left party and its militancy.
Ortiz rejected a preliminary report that the attack had been perpetrated by fights between drunken football fans, which he considered a “distractor”. “No team deserves to be involved in this kind of thing, because it is a criminal, political fact, an aggression, a terrorist act, which must be investigated,” he stressed.
The leftist leader said the party will decide what action it will take and called on the international community to observe “the break with the rule of law and democracy”.
“We have had acts of violence in the past, but not of this gravity. In the country a deliberate campaign of hatred is being set up and construction of a campaign of hatred and unnecessary confrontation,” Ortiz said, in clear reference to the discourse that has kept the present regime in power for a year and a half.
However, the left-wing leader warned that “violence is reaching us all,” as is the case with gang violence. “Political and social violence also reaches us all so we must be responsible for preventing these things from happening.”
“One may not want to burn a reed if it is inside it too,” he reflected.
“We are intimidated or cowardly but it does not mean that we will not denounce, that we will not make you feel the seriousness that has happened,” he emphasized. “It hurts to see our comrades dead … It has been a savage attack, shooting at the car in which children and adults were going. This has no name … it is an unprecedented” wild “fact in recent times “, he concluded.
Ortiz refers to this tweet:
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