Murders up 40 percent in El Salvador and the extreme left can no longer sit back, criticize and point their finger at the ARENA goverment
The number of murders in El Salvador between Jan 1 and Nov 1 stands at 3,673, which is 40 percent more than during the same period last year, media reports said, citing official statistics.
La Prensa Grafica a local newspaper in that country based the figure on data from the National Police, the Attorney General's Office and the medical examiner's office.
The number of murders, which average 13.9 per day, is 40.2 percent higher than the 2,620 homicides that were tallied during the same period in 2008. The National Police added that during last month alone there were 431 murders, 158 more than in October 2008.
Leftist government authorities are clearly overwhelmed and warn that nearly two-thirds of the 3,184 men killed this year were between the ages of 18 and 30. The San Salvador metropolitan area, which contains 14 municipalities, has had 419 more murders this year than during the same period last year. Seventy-six percent of the killings were carried out with firearms.
In the face of the increase in violence, 94 percent of the residents of Greater San Salvador supported the possibility of increasing the use of army troops for security tasks, according to a survey by the firm JBS Opinion released Tuesday by the Diario de Hoy newspaper. The poll was made public at a time when the government of President Mauricio Funes is evaluating the possibility of adding 6,500 soldiers to the effort to fight the lack of security.
The Salvadoran armed forces (FAES) had among its other constitutional duties, the mission to guarantee and maintain public order, until this was passed to the newly created National Civilian Police force that was organized as part the Peace Accords that ended the country's civil war in 1992. This apparently has turned out to be a big mistake as can be seen by the crime wave that has overwhelmed civilian police the government autorities.
It's becoming more and more apparent why the Army was made resonsible for maintaining public order in the cities and the rural areas. The Guardia Nacional was established in 1912 and fashioned along the lines of the Spanish Civil Guard and had maintained public order until it was decommissioned in 1992. The Salvadoran people, now victimized and feeling the sting of crime and mayham are living in terror and they cry out for the reinstatement of the Guardia Nacional of El Salvador.
One more example of why, "It's better to be right than politically correct"....
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