Daniel Martínez, Vice President of the Association of Disabled Persons of the (former) Armed Forces, denounced that the government took away their bonus, “they took away our credits, they have violated our right to receive productive modules, they violated our right to health , the right of organization”, among other measures.
They don’t want us to go near the Veterans Institute, which, run by “inexperienced people,” despite representing some 20,000 veterans and war disabled people, keeps us on the brink of misery, he said.
According to Martínez, they will ask the government for “a high-level commission headed by President Nayib Bukele, or Bukele’s brother, we demand this negotiation table to do a good job and if they do not attend to us -he warned- then if we continue the same or worse, we will not be responsible what happens.”
During this Tuesday, January 16, groups of veteran organizations of the (ex) Armed Forces during the civil war in El Salvador (1980-1992) and former guerrillas called to withdraw support for President Bukele in the elections due to his failure to comply with an agreement signed in 2018.
They also asked for a punitive vote against the government and to choose opposition presidential and congressional candidates, to whom they gave their support.
Hundreds of ex-combatants, veterans and war disabled, belonging to the Salvadoran Unity for Democracy and Peace (Salvapaz), gathered around the Plaza El Salvador del Mundo in this capital to commemorate the signing of the Peace Agreements of 1992.
Many of those present, including Dilio Rosales, one of the leaders of Salvapaz and former guerrilla combatant, recalled that in 2018, they gave their support to Bukele when he was seeking the presidency after signing an agreement in which he promised to fulfill a series of requests.
Among those present there was no lack of support for the cause of the people of Palestine faced today with the genocide committed by the Israeli Army against that Arab population, mainly women, the elderly and children.
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