Tag Archives: Francis Merino Monroy

Soldiers driving public transportation in El Salvador

(PUBLICADO ORIGINALMENTE POR LA PRENSA GRÁFICA) Military personnel drive units of routes 42 and 152 confiscated from Catalino Miranda, and the Government announces the hiring of drivers.   On Saturday, the Government announced the capture of  transport businessman Catalino Miranda and removal of permits to drive 42 and 152 routes managed by his company ACOSTES. […]

$250,000 to advertise the Defense Minister

EL DIARIO DE HOY reports:   From September 24 to 30 of this year, the Ministry of National Defense (MDN) spent just over $ 249,000 to buy advertising space on various Salvadoran TV channels. Between October 6 and 7, COMPRASAL (the electronic public procurement system) published a list of 15 purchases of air time that […]

Against the militarization in Chalatenango / Contra la militarización de Chalatenango

Puede leer el comunicado en español abajo.   Despite the fact that Chalatenango suffered tremendously before and during the civil war and despite the fact that several Organizations hoped that the current government would support their fight for restorative justice, Arcatao, Nueva Trinidad, San Fernando and San Ignacio, four communities of the area, are suffering […]

Mozote files – Defense Minister says they will not comply with a judicial order that, according to him, has no legal basis

FACTUM reports: The Minister of National Defense, Francis Merino Monroy, asked the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice to stop the inspection of military archives scheduled for next Monday, September 21, as part of the proceedings ordered by a judge in the criminal case for the massacre that occurred in El Mozote in 1981. […]