It's easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk....

In only a single day (this past Monday) there were 25 murders in just three of El Salvador’s fourteen provinces!

It definitely must be scary living in this scenario of insanity and violence, trying to get ahead in life and perhaps raising a family. It must be awful to realize that the crime wave around you is completely out of control and that the government is incapable of having any effect whatsoever on the henious level of violence.

It is becoming apparent that the FMLN and the other leftist organizations that form the newly constituted government, will now have to pay the price for having led the people to believe for years that the problems of the country were going unresolved due to a lack of political will and of institutionalized corruption in the ranks of the ARENA Party who had held political power for the past 20 years.

As the salvadoran populace comes to the realization that the crime wave worsens by the day, and that murder rates are at an all time high, and that the country's fragile economy on the verge of collapse, the old finger pointing FMLN leadership will be hard pressed to explain their obvious failure to improve conditions as promised during their political campaigning.

Now that the left is finally in power, the tables are turned and they will now be forced to admit that the situation in the country is not as simple to rectify or resolve as they had led everyone to believe during the past 20 years when they constituted the opposition party. Welcome to democracy.

Of course it is never easy to admit that one has been wrong for so many years, and perhaps this is the principle reasons why the FMLN leadership has avoided giving press conferences or answering the many and obvious questions that the people have the right to know.

Perhaps now the FMLN will understand that it is easier to point fingers and accuse others than it is to actually solve issues and guarantee the people the right to a safe, solvent, and progressive future.

Since their electoral victory more than two months ago, the FMLN has not given one meaningful press conferences nor have they addressed any of the issues or questions to which the country needs comprehensive responses and resolutions. They instead have dedicated this time to filling political slots with cronyism, and appointing party members to new levels of incompetence.

It is sad to acknowledge that the FMLN has not offered a single solution to any of the country’s problems that have not already been proposed or implemented in one way or another by other previous administrations.

Perhaps the FMLN will now understand that, “The sweet taste of victory is responsibility” and that it is a lot easier and more fun to be the continuously critical opposition than to be the party in power.

Perhaps Mauricio Funes can pick-up some useful tips from his friend, Brazilian president Ignacio Lula da Silva.