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    MS-13’s secretly backing ruling party in El Salvador

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    MS-13’s secretly backing ruling party in El Salvador

    By Roger Noriega
    March 3, 2014 | 5:59am

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    Member of the anti-gang squad secure alleged members of the MS-13 gang as they are presented to the media after a raid operation in San Salvador, El SalvadorPhoto: Getty Images

    The ultraviolent Mara Salvatrucha street gang, a k a MS-13 — whose 10,000 members sow murder and mayhem in dozens of American cities — has been secretly backing El Salvador’s ruling party for several years, according to evidence that has emerged in recent weeks.

    President Mauricio Funes has admitted to personally approving payoffs, prostitutes and other privileges for gang kingpins in exchange for their political support. If Funes’ FMLN party, which originated as a guerrilla movement in the 1980s, wins the March 9 presidential election, El Salvador may become a haven for gangs and narco-traffickers, with dire consequences for the United States.

    MS-13’s violent thuggery plagues communities across America. For example, last September, 14 members of its Plainfield, NJ, branch were indicted for waging what US Attorney Paul Fishman called a “reign of terror,” including multiple murders and extortion. On Feb. 21, a 21-year-old convenience-store worker, herself a Salvadoran immigrant, was murdered in a Washington, DC, suburb by three presumed MS-13 gang members.

    Born in the Salvadoran expatriate community of Los Angeles in the 1980s, the gang expanded its criminal activities to El Salvador as members were deported back there. In over 40 states, MS-13 engages in drug trafficking, racketeering, extortion, murder, child prostitution and other related crimes. In 2012, the Obama administration declared MS-13 an “international criminal organization” to use expanded law-enforcement tools against it.

    Back in El Salvador, the current leftist president has taken a dangerously different approach in response to spiraling gang violence. In early 2012, community leaders launched secretive negotiations to promote a gang “truce,” ostensibly to reduce the number of murders caused by gang turf wars.

    For years, Funes denied being involved in this controversial truce. But this year government documents, videos and recordings leaked to the media exposed his deep engagement — using government funds to induce gang members to agree to the truce to improve his party’s standing in opinion polls and ordering law enforcement not to pursue the gangs in certain zones in the country in exchange for the gang’s political support.

    The evidence includes correspondence between Funes and an MS-13 kingpin in which the president promised cash payments and special privileges for imprisoned gang members, even slots for their children in the nation’s police academy.

    The recent discovery of mass graves hiding the victims of hundreds of unreported murders proves that the ill-advised strategy did little to reduce violence. Instead, it let the gangs consolidate their turf, increase their drug smuggling and become a key part of the ruling party’s political base.

    The FMLN’s criminal associations remain troubling. Take the party’s financial manager, José Luis Merino, who handles an estimated $600 million to $800 million a year in payments from Venezuela’s left-wing government to FMLN mayors. He has amassed a private fortune by suspicious means — and has operational ties to FARC, the Colombian guerrilla movement that is the world’s largest source of cocaine: Last December, the Spanish newspaper ABC exposed Merino’s role in arranging a visit by Italian narco-trafficker Roberto Adamo to meet with FARC operatives in Venezuela.

    El Salvador is part of the Central American “Northern Triangle” through which transits about 90 percent of the cocaine reaching the United States. These recent disclosures disprove the ruling party claims to cooperate with US anti-drug efforts.

    The FMLN’s presidential candidate, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, is a hardline, anti-American ideologue who recently praised the authoritarian regime in Venezuela as “a light that will illuminate Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.” With him at the helm and gangbangers and narco-traffickers on his team, El Salvador would be on a very dangerous course.

    President Obama visited El Salvador in 2011 as a signal of his openness to its leftist government, and the United States is neutral in the coming elections despite the recent revelations about the FMLN. Isn’t it time for US authorities to call out the criminals within the FMLN movement, and apply sanctions to undermine their ability to conduct business and harm US interests?

    Silence is complicity. And turning a blind eye as a narco-gang government takes power in El Salvador is a case of criminal neglect.

    Roger Noriega served as assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere and ambassador to the Organization of American States under President George W. Bush. An
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    visiting fellow, he is managing director of Vision Americas LLC, which represents US and foreign clients.

    http://nypost.com/2014/03/03/ms-13s-...n-el-salvador/

    There we are financing socialism and communism everywhere. It really make on want to go to work and pay for this stuff.

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    Friday, 07 March 2014 17:15

    Globalists and Gangs Back Marxist Mass-murderer in El Salvador


    Written by Alex Newman






    With brazen backing from the globalist establishment, socialist despots, as well as U.S. and international crime syndicates, “former” communist-terrorist “commander” Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the Obama
    administration-subsidized FMLN appears set to win the presidency in El Salvador’s upcoming runoff election this weekend. If he wins, as is widely expected based on recent polls, the mass-murderer — a close ally of the communist Castro regime in Cuba — will become the latest ex-Marxist guerrilla to lead a U.S. taxpayer-funded Latin American national government.


    As The New American magazine has documented extensively, the region is already dominated by a closely knit network of foreign-backed socialist tyrants. However, critics of the Salvadorian party’s history of violence and mass-murder, as well as its radical future plans for the nation, are sounding the alarm. Communists around the world, including the Communist Party USA, on the other hand, are already celebrating their latest anticipated victory in the ongoing subjugation of Latin America.

    Sánchez Cerén with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a ruthless Marxist terror group backed by the Soviets that became a political party, won a plurality of the vote on February 2. If he wins the upcoming March 9 run-off election against Norman Quijano of the more liberty-friendly ARENA party, critics around the world and domestic victims of the terror organization are warning that the major problems ravishing El Salvador will only accelerate.

    In a recent heart-breaking TV advertisement by victims of Sánchez Cerén’s reign of terror during his time as “commander” of the Soviet-backed FMLN, the family members of Salvadorians slain by the presidential hopeful point out that, as a mass-murderer, he is not constitutionally qualified for the office. Sánchez Cerén recently apologized for the slaughter during the civil war, which ended in 1992, saying, “Out of the inside of my heart I apologize for the damage we put them through during the armed conflict.” For the victims’ families, however, that was not enough.

    “With me are hundreds of families from San Vicente; all we are asking is that Sánchez Cerén reveal where our relatives are buried that he admits to having ordered killed,” says Maritza Herrera Rebollo, the daughter of a former education minister who was murdered in 1979 on orders from the FMLN “commander” and current presidential candidate. “As citizens we have a duty and as victims we have the right to tell you who Sánchez Cerén is, because we love our country and because the death of our loved ones cannot be in vain.” Another victim in the ad says: “Today we still do not know where to find our relatives that Sánchez Cerén ordered killed.”

    The FMLN’s open connections to dictators such as Castro and Venezuela’s socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro, who unconstitutionally showers funding on the group with his regime’s “petro-dollars,” are also troubling to analysts. Sánchez Cerén even claimed recently that the embattled regime in Caracas — currently trying to brutally suppress a popular uprising by terrorizing, killing, and imprisoning the opposition — is “a light that will illuminate Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.”
    The Salvadorian mass-murderer’s fondness for other socialist tyrants and his militant anti-Americanism are, of course, well known. In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, Sánchez Cerén even led a mob celebration and U.S. flag burning ceremony as Americans mourned the loss of thousands of innocent civilians. Now, he wants to consolidate power, smash the opposition, and rule El Salvador like his mentor Castro oppresses the people of Cuba.

    The ruling party’s widely acknowledged links to ongoing Marxist narco-terror campaigns across Latin America — especially the murderous FARC in Colombia, among others — are also stoking major fears about the future of El Salvador and the entire region. One of FMLN’s bosses, José Luis Merino, also a key Sánchez Cerén minion, serves as the coordinator of the party’s relationship with the communist terror group. Merino, whose role was exposed publicly after documents were recovered from a FARC terror base, was caught facilitating the group’s drug trafficking operations, weapons procurement, and more.
    Perhaps even more troubling, at least to Americans, are the FMLN’s well-documented links to powerful criminal syndicates operating inside the United States — particularly the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13 for short. The infamous street gang — notorious for murder, extortion, violence, child prostitution, drug trafficking, kidnapping, and more — terrorizes communities all across the United States and El Salvador. It has also been busy working hard to ensure FMLN success in the dubious elections.

    Current Salvadorian President Mauricio Funes, also with the FMLN but a former journalist who was viewed as less radical than the ex-terrorist commander seeking to replace him, recently admitted that he personally approved payoffs and other benefits to MS-13 bosses in exchange for their political support. Other evidence exposing the brutal gang’s deep ties to FMLN and its regime in El Salvador has also been recently leaked to the press — official documents, videos, recordings, and even correspondence between Funes and an MS-13 boss promising big money and special privileges to gangsters.

    While massive taxpayer funding to the FMLN regime from the Obama administration will almost certainly continue to flow, if not grow, Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela, faced with economic collapse and full-blown rebellion, may not be able to keep propping up El Salvador’s ruling communists with oil money for much longer. If and when those handouts from the “Bolivarian revolution” regime in Caracas stop, or even if they continue flowing, analysts suggest the FMLN could become increasingly reliant on the proceeds from criminal activities to shore up its rule.
    Of course, as regular readers of The New American know well, Latin America’s Marxist narco-terror groups and gangsters intersect with the region’s socialist and communist political leaders through the Foro de Săo Paulo (Săo Paulo Forum, or FSP). The radical alliance was founded by communist dictator Fidel Castro, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, the Sandinistas, Marxist narco-terror groups such as FARC, and more, in an effort to advance totalitarianism across the Western hemisphere. Sánchez Cerén has been a fervent advocate and participant in the network, celebrating its “regional integration” plans just last year.

    Today, FSP membership — around 100 political parties including the FMLN and various Marxist organizations, including terrorist groups and drug traffickers — dominate national and regional politics in the hemisphere. While already solidly in control of most Latin American governments, the dangerous outfit also dominates most of the regional “integration” regimes, such as CELAC, ALBA, and UNASUR, too. With backing from the Communist Chinese regime and other globalist forces — and with a virtual blackout on its activities in the world press — the FSP’s influence and radicalism continue to grow.

    At the New York Times, however, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador William Walker, who also served as “State Department Fellow” at the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, maintains that there is no problem at all. “We should welcome the F.M.L.N.’s statements of good faith and cooperate with it,” he wrote in the recent Times op-ed, demanding that U.S. taxpayers continue funneling aid to the future regime of a Marxist mass-murderer. He also downplayed the ruthless Marxist terror group FARC, which is waging war on the elected government of Colombia through murder and terrorism, as a mere “Colombian leftist movement.”

    “When Americans demonize former F.M.L.N. commanders like Mr. Sánchez Cerén, either for their activities during the war or for accepting assistance from the Castro regime or from the political heirs of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, they are making a big mistake,” the CFR and U.S. government luminary wrote in the Times. “We should not fear the prospect of another five years of F.M.L.N. rule.” He also downplayed Sánchez Cerén’s radical plans to tighten the screws of tyranny around the people of El Salvador as merely “a more rigorous … effort to address the F.M.L.N.’s core issues — the corrosive inequality and social injustice.”

    Other former U.S. officials, however, see the matter much differently. “With him at the helm and gangbangers and narco-traffickers on his team, El Salvador would be on a very dangerous course,” explained American Enterprise Institute fellow Roger Noriega, former assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere and ambassador to the Organization of American States in the George W. Bush administration. “Silence is complicity. And turning a blind eye as a narco-gang government takes power in El Salvador is a case of criminal neglect.”

    The Obama administration and the U.S. embassy in San Salvador, which continue showering American taxpayer money on theFMLN regime, have formally remained neutral in the election, with no indication that the unconstitutional foreign aid will cease if Sánchez Cerén wins. However, as The New American has documented extensively, despite largely remaining quiet, the Obama administration and the Council on Foreign Relations have been critical to the ongoing communist takeover of Latin America — and it is not because they do not understand it, as a former U.S. ambassador recently made clear.

    Under the Obama administration, the “Millennium Challenge Corporation” (MCC), a U.S. “foreign aid agency,” has handed out almost half of a billion dollars to El Salvador, one of four regimes selected by Washington to participate in Obama’s Partnership for Growth (PFG) initiative. Last year, the MCC, chaired by Secretary of State John Kerry with a board that includes Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and minions of billionaire George Soros, approved another $277 million to the regime. In all, El Salvador has received close to $5 billion in “development” aid from U.S. taxpayers, according to USAID.

    Aside from the never-ending flow of U.S. taxpayer money to prop up FSP regimes andtheir state-owned “companies,” as just one obvious example of Obama’s policies in the region, consider what happened in Honduras when criminal “president” Manuel Zelaya was ousted for trampling on the constitution and the Supreme Court. Instead of remaining neutral, as the Founding Fathers would have advised, the Obama administration did its best to have the deposed would-be dictator and close Hugo Chavez ally reinstated. It even suspended foreign aid to Honduras to bully the public into submission.

    While elections in tiny El Salvador may seem insignificant to most Americans, the broader trend should be highly alarming. With major help from the establishment, including radical CFR Latin America boss and Castro apologist Julia Sweig, the entire Western hemisphere is quietly but quickly being shackled under intensifying Marxist tyranny. The implications are enormous. Experts say publicly exposing the cabal and its machinations could be enough to stop it. Whether that will happen before it is too late, though, remains to be seen.

    Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is normally based in Europe after growing up in Latin America. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com.

    http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-...in-el-salvador

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    Casa de Maryland receives money from FARC.
    Tom Perez of the DOJ is the past president of of Casa de Maryland and has an agenda straight out of the marxist playbook.

    Chavez Funding American Group That Assists Illegal Migrants
    by PETER HUESSYFebruary 14, 2011

    The plush headquarters of Casa de Maryland.

    President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is sending $1 million a year of his oil revenue to an American organization bent on keeping America's borders wide open. Casa de Maryland openly helps migrants illegally in the United States. It also receives $4 million from the state of Maryland and Montgomery County out of a total budget of $9.5 million a year.

    Chávez is knee deep in potential lawlessness. Evidence has surfaced of his intentions to ship Russian weapons to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and criminal drug cartels such as FARC, to facilitate terrorist acts against the United States, including blowing up pipelines carrying oil to the United States. He has also promised to ship both uranium to Iran to help Tehran make nuclear weapons material and oil to help break a possible refined petroleum products sanctions law now before the US Congress. How much of this is just talk and how much real? The laptop on which these Chávez plans were found was a real computer, owned by a real FARC senior commander. How much risk do we want to face?

    Open borders with the world pose grave dangers to the United States. The San Diego Union described the chaos on our borders this way: “Every night, the understaffed and outnumbered Border Patrol engaged in a losing battle of cat-and-mouse with thousands of illegal immigrants being led by ruthless smugglers. ... San Ysidro residents locked themselves in at night as smugglers and immigrants traipsed through their yards. Caches of drugs were carried across the border by smugglers and the people they were leading. Hundreds of illegal immigrants lingered in the median strip of Interstate 5 waiting for rides northward. Immigrants running across freeways were hit and killed by motorists."

    A USA Columnist visited the border to examine the prospects for a fence. She wrote: : “The carnage makes one wonder why environmental groups aren’t out lobbying for a sturdy border fence — instead of arguing against tougher border enforcement.

    But we not only have a problem at the border. The United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country. Federal officials estimate that “40 percent of the…illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.”

    At a recent community event in Maryland, a veteran Democrat legislator told me there was no problem in Casa de Maryland receiving funding from Chávez because "Venezuela is a model for Latin and Central American development". I thought she must have been kidding. Inflation in the country is over 30% and may reach twice that. Unemployment is skyrocketing. Chávez has so mismanaged the economy the country does not produce enough coffee for domestic consumption for the first time ever. The currency has dropped in value by over half as Chávez prints money wildly.

    Casa de Maryland condemns those who advocate effective limits on immigration as racists, as does Chávez. It has threatened civil disobedience should the US Congress not approve amnesty. It publishes pamphlets that instruct people to refuse to cooperate with immigration and law enforcement officials.

    The Times Square bomber, or the Detroit underwear bomber, are just a couple of numerous examples of the latest example of the connection between lax immigration laws--or lax enforcement of the laws we already have-- and potential terrorism. In the case of the Times Square clown, it was a case of granting citizenship to someone from a known state sponsored terrorist hotbed (Pakistan) and apparently looking the other way when reviewing what appears to be a sham marriage. How much worse is it to give tax-exempt status to those who actively seek to leave unprotected our borders while supporting themselves with funds from terror supporting states?

    FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Peter Huessy is on the Board of the Maryland Taxpayers Association and is President of Geostrategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland, a national security firm.

    http://www.familysecuritymatters.org...pub_detail.asp


    CASA DE MARYLAND RADICAL ASSOCIATIONS. PDF


    http://www.aim.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/CASA-de-Maryland-Radical-Connections-FINAL.pdf

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    Experts Fear Election may Lead to an Empowered MS13Posted: Mar 10, 2014 6:52 PM

    WESLACO - Intelligence experts say the hyper-violent Mara Salvatrucha gang operates in most cities in the United States.

    Law enforcement organizations throughout the U.S. consider the Salvadoran gang a dangerous transnational organization.

    Homeland Security Investigation agents track the gang's racketeering and murder cases in the U.S., and FBI reports show that the gang is active in Texas.

    The gang, also known as MS13, is so violent that the FBI had to form a special task force to stop them and prosecute their crimes.

    A former DEA agent told CHANNEL 5 NEWS about the gang's affiliation to the Zetas drug cartel.

    Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega said the newly elected president of El Salvador has ties to MS13.

    Election results give former Marxist guerrilla leader Salvador Sanchez Ceren the victory by a narrow margin. Sanchez is a member of the leftist Farabundo Marti Liberation Front. The party has strong ties to street gangs and subversive groups.

    "Evidence shows the current president has maintained ties with the street gangs and uses those relationships for his advantage," Noriega said.

    Noriega said Sanchez's victory may create a safe haven for transnational criminal organizations in El Salvador. It may also lead to a spike in illegal immigration and violence in South Texas.

    "(It) is very dangerous. It presents a safe haven to them. It could give them opportunities to launder money. These groups are involved in people-smuggling.These criminals are not going to have any hesitation as far as helping smuggle drugs or terrorists over the U.S.," Noriega said.

    FBI Gangs Page
    American Enterprise Institute
    MS-13 leaders found guilty of racketeering, additional charges for murders and attacks
    MS-13 gang members indicted for racketeering
    Treasury Department, HSI sanction significant members of MS-13 gang
    http://www.krgv.com/news/experts-fea...mpowered-ms13/

    http://www.krgv.com/news/experts-fear-election-may-lead-to-an-empowered-ms13/

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    El Salvador Validates Election Results

    Former Marxist guerilla leader to be El Salvador’s next president


    FMNL candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren celebrates election results / AP
    BY: Daniel Wiser
    March 13, 2014 1:05 pm

    A former Marxist guerrilla leader is poised to be El Salvador’s next president after the country’s electoral tribunal validated election results on Thursday.

    Salvador Sanchez Ceren of the ruling Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) held a slim lead of fewer than 7,000 votes over conservative Norman Quijano of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) after the presidential runoff on Sunday. El Salvador’s electoral tribunal unanimouslyvalidated those results on Thursday.

    Quijano has lodged a legal challenge to the election and claims there was rampant fraud. The tribunal said it would hold off announcing a victor until it sorted through his challenge.

    Jose Cardenas, former National Security Council staffer in the George W. Bush administration and an expert on Latin America, said in an interview that “the FMLN was stunned that they almost lost the election, whereas ARENA is stunned that they almost won.” Polls before the election showed a double-digit lead for the FMLN.

    Sanchez Ceren has said he will reach out to ARENA, but Cardenas said that was “very doubtful” given his history as a member of the FMLN’s hardline faction. Both parties emerged out of El Salvador’s bloody civil war in the 1980s when the rebel guerrillas fought a series of U.S.-backed governments.

    Cardenas added that he was concerned about the country’s “polarized political situation.”

    “I see the next year being one rife with political discord, anemic economic growth, and a violence problem from the gangs,” he said. “It presages a very difficult year for the country.”

    The election will have significant consequences for U.S. interests, including joint cooperation on counterterror, counternarcotics, and anti-gang efforts, Cardenas said.

    Government documents and recordings leaked earlier this year implicated the administration of current President Mauricio Funes in a quid pro quo with the gangs. Funes, a member of the FMLN, reportedly promised cash payments and special privileges to imprisoned gang members in return for political support.

    One of the gangs, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has about 10,000 members across the United States and is known for its brutal murders of victims.

    El Salvador is also “a major transit country for illegal drugs headed to the United States from source countries in South America,” according to a State Department report published this month. Gangs help to facilitate the drug shipments, as well as weapons deals and human trafficking.

    One of the most troubling Salvadoran officials is Jose Luis Merino, a close confidant of Sanchez Ceren, Cardenas said.

    Merino reportedly manages at least $600 million in payments from ALBA Petroleos, the Venezuela-backed oil company that allegedly helps the FLMN finance its political operations. Reports have also linked him to arms and drug trafficking deals involving the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Venezuelan government, and the Italian mafia.

    Merino, a former Soviet- and Cuban-trained guerrilla commander in El Salvador’s civil war, called the Soviet Union “one of the most just” political systems on earth in a rare 2005 interview. He added that the FMLN was not a “pluralistic” political movement.

    Merino has not been sanctioned despite the United States’ designation of the FARC rebels as a terrorist group.

    Cardenas said U.S. officials must hold the new Salvadoran government accountable to prevent any “backsliding.”

    “The U.S. has to remain extremely cognizant of the chances that there will be backsliding—that people like Merino will think they just hit the jackpot and that they are going to bring their nefarious associates closer to the levers of power in El Salvador,” he said.

    The State Department has remained neutral on the election. A spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon that “we look forward to working in close partnership with the candidate chosen by the people of El Salvador to be their next president.”

    Quijano claimed before the runoff that a win by Sanchez Ceren would move El Salvador closer to Venezuela, where a government crack down on protesters led by President Nicolas Maduro has resulted in at least 24 deaths.

    http://freebeacon.com/el-salvador-va...ction-results/


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