tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post5224711359895002317..comments2024-03-23T11:16:46.213-05:00Comments on El Salvador Perspectives: UN expert issues warning on judicial independence in El SalvadorTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-60550358882677159632012-12-03T20:21:10.449-06:002012-12-03T20:21:10.449-06:00Now that some time has elapsed from the tense days...Now that some time has elapsed from the tense days of the standoff when people became invested in very polarized views of the confrontation, I hope that the political class will be receptive to the U.N. Rapporteur's chiding. This rebuke is very striking. It reminds me of Dagoberto Gutiérrez's point that when entities of international hegemony, such as the U.S. government and I supposed the U.N. would fit the same category, make a public display of censuring the actions of Salvadoran governing institutions, it is a national humiliation which offends the right to self determination and sovereignty of the Salvadoran people. But Gutiérrez, who is an avowed Communist, was not saying this primarily as a criticism of the world powers who would make such an ostentatious show of public rebuke against El Salvador. Instead, Gutiérrez was saying that the Salvadoran leadership which provokes such rebukes, are doing a great disservice to the country because they are inviting the intervention of external powers who will come and squelch the exercise of self determination. The continuing failure to appoint an attorney general shows that, for the political class, this time after the constitutional crisis is just a reversion to business as usual and that little wisdom has been gleaned from this troubling episode.Carlos X.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16580093848691478319noreply@blogger.com