Marta Coto

Panel Speaks
part 6

Marta Lilian Coto: (translated)
FMLN Deputy for El Salvador in the Central American Parliament

• June 1st, the new FLMN government re-established contact with the government of Cuba.
• This political co-operation has helped El Salvador
• Since the peace accords in 1992, the FMLN became the primary opposition in the government of El Salvador, to a capitalist government that used a neoliberal model which increased poverty in El Salvador.
  
• This right-wing government refused equality for citizens
• Cuba continued to offer support to El Salvador, even while it had a right-wing government, which refused the support.
• Local El Salvadorian FMLN governments took the aid from Cuba, especially medical aide in combating pneumonia, and Mission Miracle.
• The FMLN has also started the Yes I can reading program.
• The goals of the FMLN is to help and support the poorest in El Salvador, so that they can grow and prosper.
• They are also fighting organized crime which thrived under the right wing governments of the past.
  

"I would like to take the time to denounce the coup d'etat in Honduras. This is an enormous step back from the democratic growth that has happened in Central America."
-Marta Coto

(Standing Ovation)