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<p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="text-align:center;line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono"" align="center"><a name="tw-target-text1"></a><span style="font-size:21pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">The Latin American
Association of Social Medicine and Collective Health <span></span></span></p>

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the attempted coup in progress in El Salvador <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono""><a name="tw-target-text"></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">On
Sunday, February 9 in the afternoon, the President of El Salvador,<span>  </span>Nayib Bukele, broke into the Congress
building accompanied by<span>  </span>members of the
Armed Forces and the National Civil Police.. They entered armed with assault
rifles, with the explicit purpose of intimidating the Congress, forcing them to
approve a loan for 109 million dollars, destined for unjustified and
incongruous purchases from companies of doubtful reputation, under penalty if
not approved<span>  </span>of an insurrection of the
people against him. This was nothing more than an excuse to overwhelm and
facilitate the dissolution of the congress and to be able to govern according
to his will concentrating all the power, that is to say, to propitiate an
“Autocoup” with unimaginable results.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">The abusive use and
manipulation of the Armed Forces and the National Civil Police strongly
impacted the population, reminding them of the recent past characterized by
military dictatorships, repression and total absence of the most elementary
democratic freedoms, which resulted in a 20-year civil war with a balance of
more than 80,000 dead, about 10,000 missing and half a million more people
injured and disabled.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Such a scene,<span>  </span>not seen since 1992 when the peace agreements
were signed, evidenced the fragile democracy that El Salvador lives, governed
today by a fascist president who breaks with the secular state carrying out
theatrical productions in which he “speaks with God ” who transfers direct and
precise orders to him.<span>  </span>Bukele governs
from social networks, summarily dismisses his subordinates with twitters,
tramples human rights and puts in charge of public institutions family, friends
and trusted employees of his companies, who have in common the ignorance and
lack of suitability of their functions. To this is added a high degree of
servitude and flattery of his intimate circle and followers of his party, who
irreflexively celebrate any occurrence or outburst of the messianic president,
who does not admit criticism or dissent of any kind for his actions and
dictates.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="ES-NI"><br>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">The entire institutional and popular political
spectrum, plus national and international public opinion, condemned these
arbitrary and abusive acts that include the breaking of the constitutional
order and the rule of law, the contempt and usurpation of other powers of the
State, marginalization of dialogue, disqualification of all the sectors that
oppose their dictatorial actions (including important associations of
constitutional experts and judges,<span>  </span>the
exclusion of transparency and the choice of the opprobrious path of
authoritarianism, corruption and arrogance. </span><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="ES-NI">ALAMES supports and joins the call of
Salvadoran social organizations, while calling on the international community
and its militancy, to defend democracy and social conquests and to reject the
absurd and inadmissible presidential call to insurrection. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="ES-NI"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="ES-NI">We congratulate the Constitutional Chamber of
the Supreme Court of Justice for the admission of citizen requests for
unconstitutionality that seek to condemn the actions of the council of
ministers and the armed interruption of the President into Congress. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="ES-NI"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="ES-NI">The Salvadoran social movement and ALAMES
support the search for dialogue and participatory solutions to the security
problem and other urgent issues for the country, such as water, pensions, the
destruction of the Health Reform and many more that require the dismantling of
the model neoliberal, as well as the strengthening of institutionality and the
rule of law.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="ES-NI"><span></span></span></p>

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Salvador February 12, 2020.</span></p><p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono"">[ALAMES is a PHM affiliate]<br></p><p class="gmail-Textopreformateado" style="line-height:27pt;background:rgb(248,249,250) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Liberation Mono""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(34,34,34)" lang="ES-NI"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="ES-NI"><span></span></span></p>

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