Former El Salvador President Saca gets two-year prison term for bribery
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 / 6:43 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Former El Salvador President Saca gets two-year prison term for bribery
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A court handed down a two-year prison sentence for bribery to former Salvadoran President Elias Antonio Saca, the attorney general’s office said on Thursday.
Saca, 54, who is already serving a 10-year prison sentence for misuse of public funds and money laundering, was found guilty of having offered $10,000 to a court employee to obtain information about a case against him, the attorney general’s office said.
He pleaded guilty in both cases as he sought to reduce his prison term. A judge has yet to decide whether the two years will be added to his existing sentence.
Saca, a former businessman who governed the Central American country from 2004 to 2009, was detained in October 2016 during his son’s wedding.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-elsalvador-court-saca/former-el-salvador-president-saca-gets-two-year-prison-term-for-bribery-idUKKBN1W436K?rpc=401&
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Saca has always been connected to the ARENA (Nationalist Republican Alliance) Party, which was the party of SOA-trained monster, "Blow Torch Bob" D'Aubuisson, who, so fortunately is no longer with us, but dwelling in the eternal home for mass murderers.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010
Blowtorch Bob: The Duty to Remember Roberto D’Aubuisson
El Salvador’s Roberto D’Aubuisson (1944-1992) was uniquely malevolent. He would throw babies in the air and shoot them in midair, just for fun. The death squads of which he was the leader, hunted down and executed insurgents in the slowest, most exquisitely painful ways possible. The Spanish Inquisition could have learned a thing or two about torture from him: his favorite method involved a blow torch, earning him the nickname of “Blowtorch Bob.” I bet no one ever called him that to his face.
During the Salvadoran Civil War, 75,000 people were killed; 8000 were disappeared, and one million were left homeless, slaughtered by D’Aubuisson and his death squads. They killed a group of Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter; and a group of Catholic lay nuns who had just arrived in El Salvador. In El Mozote, they killed at least 794 townspeople: they separated the men from the women, locked them in a church, then took them out in small groups. After they raped the women, they murdered each one of them. Then they burned the bodies.
His crowning achievement was assassinating Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero: On March 24, 1980, one of his gunmen shot him in the heart as he was saying Mass. Romero’s offense? Demanding the end to the killing of innocent men, women, and children in El Salvador’s Civil War. What an odd demand from a Catholic priest: love thy neighbor.
When throat cancer killed D’Aubuisson on February 20, 1992 , sending him, one hopes, to join Satan’s own favorite sons, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Chauchesku in the first circle of hell, I vowed I would remember and celebrate his date of death every year. So today, I remember by telling my students, my friends, and you, my readers, about the fiend of El Salvador, Roberto D’Aubuisson.
D’Aubuisson’s education at the School of the Americas is particularly galling. The SOA, chartered by the United States Congress, and sponsored by the United States Army at Fort Benning, Georgia, gained its fame by training Latin American military officers in methods of interrogation, torture, kidnapping and executions. These methods were described by former United States Representative Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) as “worthy of the Soviet gulag.” Our government allowed and encouraged this instructional program as part of a perverted foreign policy focused on maintaining stability in the region at any cost rather than in protecting the basic human rights of all of the citizens of the hemisphere.
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Nunca más.
http://professinghistory.blogspot.com/2010/03/blowtorch-bob-duty-to-remember-roberto.html
Blow Torch Bob D’Aubuisson
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Blowtorch Bain.
by KARA on AUGUST 10, 2012
Here is an unphotoshopped, completely legal photograph of Romney and pals waving around blood-soaked-death-squad-dollars in celebration of Bain’s initial funding via Salvadoran war criminals. When asked about the picture, Mitt responded that it was just a bunch of guys having fun and he remembered it “fondly.” Mitt fondly remembers all his Latin American death squad friends and hopes that maybe it will counter Team Romney’s admission that Romneycare prevented poor folks in Massachuste from dying, and his bloodthirsty base can heave a sigh of relief.
Romney and his partners had struggled to raise funds from traditional sources, so they met with some unsavory Central American oligarchs looking for new investment vehicles as turmoil engulfed their region. Romney was rightfully concerned that the oligarchs money might be traced back to “illegal drug money, right-wing death squads, or left-wing terrorism”. But, pressed for capital, Mitts forgot to be concerned and flew to Miami in 1984 to meet with the Salvadorans at a local bank. Some of these were members of wealthy, prominent Central American families who were financing “Death Squads” in El Salvodor’s civil war.
These Death Squads beat back left-wing guerrillas and reformers committing atrocities on a mass scale – from 1979 to 1992, some 75,000 people were killed, and 8000 were disappeared. Their list of atrocities is harrowing; they killed a group of Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter; slaughtered a group of Catholic lay nuns and townspeople, separating men from women, locking them in a church, taking them out in small groups, raping the women then murdering them and burning the bodies. The Death Squad Overlord was Roberto D’Aubuisson, aka Blowtorch Bob, a uniquely sadistic psychopath who would throw babies up and shoot them in midair, just for fun. He ordered his Death Squads to hunt down and torture insurgents favoring methods involving a blow torch, before murdering them. They shot Archbishop Oscar Romero in the heart while he was saying Mass.
But, Mitt, don’t worry about the part your money played in all this. I mean, it’s not really the criminal kind of murder and nun-rape and assassination and – it was just perpetrated against peasants, poor farmers, students, revolutionaries, marxists, priests, and agitators for human rights and democracy – you know, Soviet dupes. And only ideologically-blinded US stooges would see anything wrong with it. Furthermore, it’s hardly Mitt’s fault that El Salvador didn’t have Romneycare, to treat the bullet and blowtorch wounds of uninsured nuns.They could have moved to Massachusetts as soon as they were raped but before they were killed.
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https://teensleuth.com/blog/?p=14028