Almost seven days after the start of the sports event that will bring together 37 delegations and thousands of athletes, Salvadoran authorities are making enormous efforts so that “their games are the best in history.”
The Villa Centroamericana and the Jorge “El Mágico” González National Stadium monopolized the main efforts of dozens of full-time workers to get those stages ready.
El Salvador will be prepared for the 24th Central American and Caribbean Sports Games, President Nayib Bukele promised in a tweet, confident in the actions of his people.
“We are running with the last details (these days will be a lot of work) to have the best Central American and Caribbean Games,” he added. We will be ready!, he remarked.
Already in the town there is an intense movement caused by the arrival of representatives of various delegations, including Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Barbados.
Meanwhile, in politics, the Legislative Assembly approved this week the fifteenth extension of the emergency regime, the cornerstone of a plan that allowed the Government of Nayib Bukele to hit the gangs and reduce the number of gangs to levels not imagined just two years ago. homicides and violence in the country.
Also two reforms approved by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, the reduction from 84 to 60 deputies, and from 262 to 44 municipalities, caused a political earthquake in the country that, according to the opposition, distort the path that leads to the 2024 elections.
These measures practically disarm the opposition with a new electoral scenario, which, although considered unconstitutional, will move Salvadoran politics in the coming months. These are changes that others generate, perhaps like a domino effect, and that can already be seen a week since the Assembly began “the reforms” introduced by President Nayib Bukele in his June 1 message.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) reported that political parties will have until July 20 to resume internal elections, 15 additional days to a deadline that expires on July 5.
Also during the week, actions against corruption were maintained, especially focused on occupying properties and resources obtained in a doubtful manner by former President Alfredo Cristiani, and which the latest figures from the Attorney General’s Office placed at 85 million dollars.
Thus ends a week where the festive atmosphere of the Central American and Caribbean Games opens its way, which will begin here on June 23 and will last until July 8.
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