So their first president allegedly approved the murder of the Jesuits at the UCA. Their second president was a close confidant of Roberto D'Aubuisson and perhaps worse. Their fourth president increased his personal wealth sixteen times or so and was so corrupt that they had to expel him from the party. Now the sky is falling in on their third president. (I do wonder which of the four increased his wealth the most while in office through illicit dealings.)
President number three, Francisco Flores, appears to have tried to skip town on Tuesday stowing away in a bus headed for Guatemala. However, he had a change of heart when he was caught and decided to return to the capital to answer a congressional committee's questions surrounding the whereabouts of $10-15 million dollars donated by Taiwan's president to help Salvadorans recover from the 2001 earthquakes.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Luis Martinez ordered authorities to freeze Flores's bank accounts and properties. He's not under arrest but things are not looking good for Norman Quijano's campaign manager. This is probably not what Quijano had in mind when Flores was brought in to right the ship.
If ARENA loses this weekend, I'd say it probably has more to do with their failures in governing and their failure to adjust to life as an opposition party more so than it does to any success that the FMLN has had in office. It's not as if the FMLN has done great.
It's just that ARENA hasn't made itself into a better alternative.
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