According to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), the Pilar came from the Pacific Ocean near the Salvadoran coast and in just four days stored four percent of the water that the country receives each year before entering the sea on Thursday migrated.
Landslides, floods, evacuated families and three deaths were the consequences of the climatic setbacks, which also led to losses in the production of staple foods, according to Luis Treminio, president of the Salvadoran Chamber of Small and Medium Agricultural Producers (Campo).
The corn crop suffered losses of 27,285 tons (nine percent) and the bean crop suffered losses of 20,235 (14 percent), accumulating more than 47,000 tons of two staple foods for Salvadorans, the manager emphasized.
This Friday, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) confirmed the registration of the candidacies for president and vice-president of the National Liberation Front Farabundo Martí (FMLN), Manuel Flores and Werner Marroquín, as well as those of Nuevas Ideas (NI), Nayib Bukele and Félix Ulloa, in this last case to confirm the contradiction between a resolution and the Constitution
The TSE stuck to the Constitutional Chamber’s decision allowing the president to be registered as a candidate, even though, according to opponents, the constitution prohibits re-election in several articles.
According to Claudia Ortiz, deputy in the Legislative Assembly of the Vamos party, the very illegality of the chamber makes its decision favorable to the government illegal, something other political groups also believe.
The representative of the Nuestro Tiempo party, John Wright, estimated that “a TSE that is unable to respect the Constitution is unable to guarantee the integrity of the elections.”
The story began on May 1, 2021, when the Legislative Assembly removed judges from the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court and established a new chamber. On September 3, 2021, this forum adopted a resolution allowing the immediate re-election of the President, although the Constitution prohibits this.
News reports throughout the week also included statements from members of the National Civil Police Workers’ Movement (MTP) about the threat that gangs still pose.
The union’s warning confirms more than a dozen confidential National Civil Police reports published by InSight Crime magazine that said the three main gangs operating in El Salvador were “weakened” after a year and a half of a state of emergency are still a subtle threat.
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