Report from El Salvador

Jan 2010 issue Soldier of Fortune magazine page 10 Report from El Salvador Within two months after the election of the communist FMLN and ex-CNN reporter Mauricio Funes to the presidency of that nation, the FMLN removed all of the higher personnel of the Policia Nacional Civil and all other federal agencies and replaced them with personnel from the FMLN. The new Justice and Public Safety minister was involved in the murders of the Marines in the US Embassy in the Zona Rosa nightclub/restaurant area. The Salvadoran legislature has not yet elected a new attorney general, but it is safe to expect that he will be a communist. This is a typical pattern whenever the communists take control of a country in Central America. They always move first to take control of the police and then subsequently the armed forces. So, we won in El Salvador, but subsequently lost the peace. The election in the US of the far-left black Lenin, Barack Obama, was very much a factor in the Salvadoran elections this past March. I spent twenty five years of my life going to El Salvador to help their army's special forces and the national police. That has all been flushed down the drain. You don't need to ask if I am bitter, angry and deeply saddened by this. How terribly, horribly tragic. Peter G. Kokalis former Technical Editor Soldier of Fortune magazine