Salvadoran ex-president turns himself in
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Salvadoran ex-president turns himself in
Sep 5, 3:01 PM EDT
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- A former Salvadoran president turned himself in to authorities on Friday to face charges of embezzlement and illicit enrichment related to a donation by the government of Taiwan.
Francisco Flores is accused of embezzling $5.3 million. He is also charged with mismanaging $10 million that was donated by Taiwan's government during his presidency from 1999-2004.
A further charge of disobedience accuses Flores of failing to show up for a meeting with a congressional commission investigating what happened to the money Taiwan donated.
Flores had left the country, leading Salvadoran officials to seek help from Interpol to locate him. Flores turned himself in to a judicial center in the capital Friday morning.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_SALVADOR_FORMER_PRESIDENT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-09-05-12-15-06
(His party, ARENA, was responsible for unbelievable atrocities meted out to imagined leftists, through their hard-working agents like "Blowtorch Bob" D'Aubisson.)
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“All I know is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.” – Jesse Helms
Who is this handsome man pictured above, waving his clenched fist at someone off-camera and with his big mouth wide open? It’s Roberto “Blowtorch Bob” D’Aubuisson, given such a charming name for his penchant for using blue-hot butane torches on his victim’s limbs and genitalia during the torture sessions of suspected leftists, liberals, communists and labor leaders. He became infamous in his home country of El Salvador during the civil war against the leftist FMLN movement for leading CIA-trained death squads that carried out scores of massacres. He was trained at the infamous “School of the Americas” in 1972.
The Hitler-loving D’Aubuisson was quoted as saying, “You Germans were very intelligent. You realized that the Jews were responsible for the spread of Communism and you began to kill them.” A former National Guard and founder of the ultra-conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance or ARENA party, it wasn’t popular support but rather support from abroad that was the true source of his power. Robert E. White, Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to El Salvador, called him a “pathological killer” on American national television.
There is no area of the Cold War quite as consistent as the United States’ support for jackbooted anti-communist dictators and neo-fascist mass murderers such as ole’ Bob. His victims were by no means limited to left-wing categories—other undesirables in Bob’s way to neo-liberal privatized power were civilians, villagers, priests, nuns, women, children, infants and pretty much anyone unlucky enough to get between his death squads and supporters of the left-wing in El Salvador.
Despite this, D’Aubuisson and many others like him received exorbitant amounts of financial support and training from the United States. As the New York Times stated,
“In El Salvador, American aid was used for police training in the 1950’s and 1960’s and many officers in the three branches of the police later became leaders of the right wing death squads that killed tens of thousands of people in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s” (1).
(Edited to correct this link.)
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http://theredphoenixapl.org/2012/08/12/cold-war-killer-file-the-death-squads-of-el-salvador-part-1/
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