America’s Most Brutal Gang Could Be Big Winner In El Salvador’s Presidential Election

Obama is running for president f El Salvador?

“MS-13 gang, which is considered by many as America’s most brutal enterprise because of its reputation for using machetes to hack people to death. …”

Same can be said for Planned Parenthood.

So, if MS-13 wins control of the government, would there be any reason NOT to deport their illegals on this side of the border? Other than the fact that they are reliable Democrat voters?

Oh! My mistake. MS-13...

When I read: “America’s Most Brutal Gang...” in the headline, I just assumed they were talking about the democrat party...

the MS-13 gang, which is considered by many as America’s most brutal enterprise because of its reputation for using machetes to hack people to death. …

Easy solution, just outlaw machetes.

SEIU?

“The only 100% preventable crimes are those committed by illegal aliens”

Even all the power of the US Embassy in El Salvador could not deter the people from electing ARENA candidates in the era after the guerrilla war. But that conservative party was not conservative enough and there was still enough socialism to stall the economy. The US also pressured El Salvador to agree to the abolition of the security organizations that kept gangs or "maras" from getting too powerful. When this uniform was still being worn, nobody had ever heard of the MS-13.

Young operative of the Guardia Nacional stands guard at a coffee mill in Santiago de Maria, Usulutan, El Salvador, Circa 1989. Photo: Robert Meacham photo GNsantiagodeMariaUsulutan.jpg

Open Borders and the War on Drugs are a toxic combination. We could have a nation become an openly Narco Republic and if we fail to secure the border, I can’t imagine what’s next.

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El Salvador’s Dance with the Devil

Posted By David Paulin On March 24, 2014 @ 12:20 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/david-paulin/el-salvadors-dance-with-the-devil/print/

Some leftists have smartened up. Guerrilla insurgencies are passé for them. So are AK-47s from Cuba or the Soviet bloc or China.

They saw an easier way to seize power; so they got shaves, put on suites, and ran for office claiming to be left-leaning pragmatists. But after their election wins, they took advantage of a polarized citizenry and weak institutions to tear the system apart – more or less legally – from inside out.

The stealth approach worked well for Hugo Chávez in Venezuela where Cuban agents and goons are now pitching in to put down anti-government protesters fed up with Venezuela’s “21st Century Socialism.” During his first election campaign, Chavez denied he was a socialist and portrayed himself as a moderate despite having led an aborted coup against a democratic government.

Now, El Salvador seems poised to follow that same path after a former Marxist guerrilla leader – 69-year-old Salvador Sánchez Cerén – was elected president by a razor-thin margin and amid allegations of voting irregularities, which included claims that gang members were recruited to intimidate voters who opposed him. Sánchez Cerén had been El Salvador’s vice president — a hardliner in the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, named after a legendary Salvadorian rebel leader, Farabundo Martí, from the 1930s...

A mere 6,364 votes carried Sánchez Cerén to victory in a run-off election on March 9. Some 3 million ballots were cast in the country of 6.2 million people.

Amid allegations of voter fraud, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal did a partial recount and, four days later, declared Sánchez Cerén the winner. Arena supporters have reason to be suspicious of the tribunal’s decision, because as some political analysts pointed out, most of its members have ties to the FMLN. Quijano hinted that the military might intervene, but military leaders said they were keeping out of the bitterly contested election.
Sánchez Cerén grew up in a working-class family — the ninth of 12 children whom his parents struggled to support. Five years ago, his campaign for the vice presidency was overshadowed by Funes’s campaign, but his entrance into the political arena did attract the attention of Washington and the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador. Embassy officials seemed skeptical that Sánchez Cerén had indeed traded the bullet for the ballot. They wondered if he remained a Marxist ideologue who was merely echoing the talking points of FMLN’s more moderate presidential candidate.

Last week, after the electoral tribune ruled that Sánchez Cerén had won fair and square, the president-elect declared: “We have the people’s sovereign mandate; starting June 1 we will govern for five more years. We are ready for a dialogue to build El Salvador.”

But Diario Latino, a Salvadorian newspaper, summed up the fears of 50 percent of the population with an editorial stating the obvious: Sánchez Cerén had dedicated much of his life to teaching and defending “Marxist-Leninist principles” and thus could be counted on to take El Salvador toward socialism.
Sánchez Cerén, for his part, provided the first indication of where he was heading when naming his transition team – six former guerillas. At least two were mentioned in U.S. diplomatic cables for their unsavory pasts as guerrilla fighters: José Luis Merino was involved in arms trafficking and Manuel Melgar in murder.

Funes was unable to run for reelection because El Salvador limits presidents to 5-year terms. But he had left El Salvador poised for growth.

“The last government has prepared the ground work in many ways for private investment to take off. It’s not for a lack of policy, the issue is political,” said Joydeep Mukherji, a managing director for Standard & Poor’s during a conference call with Bloomberg News.

Even so, Sánchez Cerén will lead a country with one of the world’s worst murder rates caused by violent gangs. The government has negotiated a truce with them but has yet to rein them in; they control neighborhoods and extort money from residents and businesses. About 35 percent of the population remains in poverty.

If Sánchez Cerén lives up to his reputation, expect to see El Salvador descend into Venezuela-style political chaos and economic decline, and for another wave of Salvadorian refugees to flee to America. President Funes must be regretting his pact with the devil right about now.