From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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Subject: Proceso 533: News Briefs
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:13:08 GMT
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** Written 11:54 am  Oct 15, 1992 by cidai@huracan.cr in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
From: cidai@huracan.cr (Centro de Informacion Documentacion y Apoyo a la Invest. - UCAJSC)
Subject: Proceso 533: News Briefs

Center for Information, Documentation and Research Support (CIDAI)
Central American University (UCA)
San Salvador, El Salvador
 
PROCESO 533
October 7, 1992
 
NEWS BRIEFS:
 
POLICE BUDGET:  The Treasury Commission of the Legislative Assembly
passed a request by the Council of Ministers for a budget for the
National Civilian Police for the months of October-December 1992.
All the political parties supported the resolution and unanimously
passed the budget of 1,480,380 colones ($172,000). According to the
decree, these funds will be used to facilitate the functions of the
new police force in the nation's former conflict zones.
 
TRANSITORY POLICE:  On October 1, the first offices of the
Auxiliary Transitory Police (PAT) were established in former
conflict zones. The director of the National Civilian Police, Jose
Maria Monterrey, stated that although the FMLN prevented the
symbolic inauguration ceremony in the first six outposts of the
PAT, they were installed just the same in the following locations:
La Palma, Dulce Nombre de Maria and El Carrizal (Chalatenango),
with 57 agents in all; Anamoros (La Union), 25 agents; Santa Elena
and San Agustin (Usulutan), 25 each. He added that next year, the
Transitory Police will need a budget of 132 million colones ($15.3
million). The Special Regimen of the PAT will begin in 1993, and
these police will then gradually be displaced by National Civilian
Police officers.
 
COMMISSION:  President Cristiani reported that on October 2, the
Council of Ministers decided to create an auditing commission to
combat corruption in the public sector. He explained that the new
body will be made up of three persons who will audit any agency
they deem necessary, in order to determine whether or not there has
been misappropriation of public funds. Cristiani added that at the
end of November, the head of each Ministry or agency will report to
the Council of Ministers about cases which have been resolved.
 
REGISTRY:  On September 30, the FMLN Political Committee turned
over to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal the certified document which
makes it eligible to collect signatures in support of its registry
as a political party, as well as three copies of its internal
statutes, a certified copy of the party's founding document, its
political program, and 24 books containing 6,000 signatures.
Shafick Handal, of the FMLN General Command, said that the next
elections "will not only determine the next president, legislators
and mayors, but will also decide if human rights violations,
militarism and social injustice have been eradicated in El
Salvador."
 
WEAPONS:  On October 6, the court of Chinameca turned over to the
Special Investigative Commission the weapons taken by the FMLN from
the bodies of three U.S. servicemen killed after their helicopter
was downed near Lolotique, San Miguel, in January 1991. The weapons
include three special revolvers, one M-60 machine gun, magazines,
and an AK-47 rifle. The latter weapon, according to the
investigations, was used to kill the two servicemen who were
wounded in the crash. The judge in the case, Dinora Andrade, said
the case was still being investigated, and hoped that it could be
taken to trial by March 1993.
 
FOREIGN AID:  The National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP)
reported that over $123 million in foreign aid had been made
available to the private sector by the Central American Bank for
Economic Integration (BCIE). The resources were provided by a group
of five European financial institutions, and will be available to
acquire goods from those countries. BCIE President Federico Alvarez
said the bank would award $300 million in loans to Central American
countries, including $120 million to the private sector to support
industrial reconversion and increase regional exports; $180 million
will go to the government in order to create the infrastructure
necessary to improve exports.
 

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