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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Twenty-two year old street vendor assassinated at noon Saturday "probably by mistake"
Six apparent gang members gunned down a fruit vendor on Independence Avenue in San Salvador yesterday.
The alleged gunmen escaped by car and were captured by police several minutes later on Bulevard del Ejército in Lamatepec
(down the hill from San Andres).
Other vendors in the area said that the young man “did not cause problems for anybody and
that they killed him probably by mistake”. However, police sources said that many of the incidents that occur
in that place happen because of gang problems.
FMLN insists on electoral reforms to comply with constitutional requirements
The party of the left (FMLN) has demanded, in preparation for the 2009 elections, that the 84 legislative
districts be redrawn to give an equal number of voters in each district. A bill on this subject was introduced in the
legislature this past week. The most recent census showed the population to have decreased from 6.0 million to 5.7 million.
This demand is based on article 69 of the Salvadoran constitution. Redistricting is expected to increase the number
of legislators from the Department of San Salvador, which tends to be central left, from 23 to 25.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Survey Shows A Tight Presidential Race
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Left and right are waging a close presidential battle in
El Salvador, according to a poll by Consulta Mitofsky released by TCS. 34.2 per cent of respondents would vote for Mauricio
Funes of the left-leaning Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in next year’s ballot, while 30.8 per cent would
back Rodrigo Ávila of the governing conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Go to http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/salvadorans_headed_to_tight_presidential_race for the rest of the story.
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