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text-align:center;background:#BFBFBF'><b><font size=6
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<p class=MsoHeader align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;background:#BFBFBF'><b><i><font size=6
face="Copperplate Gothic Bold"><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Copperplate Gothic Bold";
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>A C T I O N A L E R T</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Times><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Times'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><font size=1
face=Times><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Times'> </span></font><font
face=Times><span style='font-family:Times'>August 29, 2006 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Palatino><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Palatino;
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
color=black face=Palatino><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino;
color:black'>Wave of Repression continues in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> with <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
color=black face=Palatino><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino;
color:black'>Death Squad-style Murders of FMLN Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font size=3
face=Palatino><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Palatino;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>* Salvadoran Movement calls for international pressure for
a timely and thorough investigation*<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2
color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>
Alex Flores Montoya and Mercedes Peñate de Montoya, two well-known FMLN
leaders, were found dead last Wednesday in the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">municipality</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Coatepeque</st1:PlaceName>, department of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Santa Ana</st1:City></st1:place>. The
husband and wife were traveling in their vehicle when they were intercepted by
another vehicle. They were then forced to lay face down on the ground,
each shot with a single bullet to the head, and abandoned in a nearby
alley. Alex Flores Montoya was a teacher in two of the local public
schools, and as an FMLN activist he served as the local FMLN board’s
adjunct coordinator and ran for municipal council with the FMLN in the March
2006 elections. Mercedes Peñate de Montoya was also a recognized FMLN
activist and former candidate to the FMLN municipal council in the March 2000
elections.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><font
size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:black'>The FMLN denounced the death squad-style killings and is demanding
a prompt and thorough investigation by the National Civilian Police (PNC) and
the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). Luis Corvera, FMLN coordinator
for the department of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Santa Ana</st1:City></st1:place>,
said last Friday that the crime “cannot be left in impunity.”
Corvera expressed the concerns of many Salvadorans saying that the murders are
most likely political because the way in which the Montoyas were killed is
typical of the Salvadoran death squads of the 1980’s.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><font
size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:black'>Political violence in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> has been escalating
since the violence of July 5<sup>th</sup>, when police attacked a student
protest against the rising cost of bus fare and two police officers were killed.
That night the PNC illegally raided the union federation CSTS and tortured and
illegaly detened union leader Daniel Ernesto Morales on July 5<sup>th</sup>,
then on July 17<sup>th</sup> SETA (the water worker’s union) received a
death threat signed by a supposed death squad group. In recent weeks, two
“social-cleansing” death squads have reemerged in the western part
of the country, and last Thursday the Salvadoran Army, spurred on by the ARENA
rhetoric that has been calling the FMLN and its supporters “terrorists,”
illegally occupied a rural organized community in San Vicente claiming they
were looking for weapons. Meanwhile, nothing has been done in the
investigation of the recent brutal murder of FMLN leader “Mariposa”
Marina Manzanares’ parents in Suchitoto on July 1<sup>st</sup>, and the
government has done nothing to address the evidence of death squad-like groups
operating from within the PNC. (<i><span style='font-style:italic'>For details
about the protest and violence, go to <a
href="http://www.cispes.org/english/Communiques_-_Action_Alerts/july5.html">http://www.cispes.org/english/Communiques_-_Action_Alerts/july5.html</a>;
and <a href="http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates_and_Analysis/index.html">http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates_and_Analysis/index.html</a>).</span></i></span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><font
size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:black'>In the context of this escalating repression, the FMLN and
Salvadoran social movement are calling for international solidarity to pressure
the Attorney General’s office for a prompt and thorough investigation
into the murders. Join us in demanding an end to the violence and respect
for the right to organize in El Salvador – the social movement and
international solidarity demand justice, not impunity, for the perpetrators of
political repression!</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p><span
style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>TAKE
ACTION!</span></font></u></b><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>1. Write
to the Salvadoran Attorney General and demand that the office carry out a prompt
and thorough investigation into both the most recent Montoyas assassination and
the July 1<sup>st</sup> brutal murder of the Manzanares. </span></font></b><b><i><font
size=2 color=blue><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>(see below for sample fax)</span></font></i></b><b><font
size=2 color=blue><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;font-weight:
bold'> </span></font></b><font size=2><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'>
Sr. Félix Garrid Safie P., Fiscal General de <st1:PersonName
ProductID="La Repblica" w:st="on">La República</st1:PersonName> de El
Salvador -</span></font></b><font size=2><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fax:
011(503)2249 - 8607 or e-mail to </span></font><font size=2><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="mailto:fgsafie@fgr.gob.sv"><span lang=ES>fgsafie@fgr.gob.sv</span></a></span></font><font
size=2><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'>. </span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Send a copy of your message and any reply
to Krista Hanson at the CISPES National Office: <a
href="mailto:krista@cispes.org">krista(at)cispes.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-.25in;text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font></b><![endif]><font size=2><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Call your Congressional Representative to inform them
of the continued political repression in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> and ask that she or he
follow up on the recent Dear Colleague letter that called on the U.S. State
Department to investigate the Salvadoran police’s respect for human
rights – the Capitol Hill switchboard is <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>202-224-3121</span></b>. The letter, including the list of signers,
is on-line<a href="mailto:"></a> at <a
href="http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates_and_Analysis/congress_letter_ESviolence.html">http://www.cispes.org/english/Updates_and_Analysis/congress_letter_ESviolence.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.25in'><b><i><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Sample Fax:</span></font></i></b><font
size=2><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=ES style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i><font
size=2><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Para: Sr. Félix Garrid Safie<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fiscal General de <st1:PersonName
ProductID="La Repblica" w:st="on">la República</st1:PersonName> de El
Salvador<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'>Presente<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'>011-503-2249 -
8607<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font
size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES style='font-size:11.0pt'>29 de
Agosto de 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'>Estimado Sr. Félix
Garrid Safie,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'>Le escribo
para expresarle mi grave preocupación sobre los asesinatos de <font
color=black><span style='color:black'>Alex Flores Montoya y Mercedes Peñate de
Montoya el pasado Miércoles, 23 de Agosto por horas de la tarde. Los
esposos, quienes eran reconocidos líderes del FMLN, fueron asesinados con un
disparo a la cabeza y abandonados en el caserío San Isidro, jurisdicción de
Coatepeque. Ellos dejan en la orfandad a sus 3 hijos, de 17, 21 y 25 años
de edad. El asesinato ocurre a unas cuantas semanas después del brutal
asesinato de los esposos Manzanares, el 1ero de Julio en Suchitoto, quienes
también militaban en el FMLN.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ambos
asesinatos fueron ejecutados en un estilo propio a los Escuadrones de <st1:PersonName
ProductID="la Muerte" w:st="on">la Muerte</st1:PersonName>, grupos armados
clandestinos que funcionaron con impunidad durante la guerra en El
Salvador. El hecho que cada vez es más y más frecuente este estilo de
asesinato, junto con el reaparecimiento de grupos de limpieza social como <st1:PersonName
ProductID="la Sombra Negra" w:st="on"><st1:PersonName ProductID="la Sombra"
w:st="on">la Sombra</st1:PersonName> Negra</st1:PersonName> y el Comando
Central Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, y denuncias de grupos de exterminio
dentro de <st1:PersonName ProductID="la Polic￭a Nacional" w:st="on"><st1:PersonName
ProductID="la Polic￭a" w:st="on">la Policía</st1:PersonName> Nacional</st1:PersonName>
Civil, apunta a un peligroso retroceso en el respeto a los derechos humanos en
El Salvador. Todo ello es aún más alarmante cuando la represión política
va en aumento y las ejecuciones parecieran ser deliberadamente en contra de
activistas políticos de izquierda.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'>Por lo tanto,
le pido que <st1:PersonName ProductID="la Fiscal￭a General" w:st="on"><st1:PersonName
ProductID="la Fiscal￭a" w:st="on">la Fiscalía</st1:PersonName> General</st1:PersonName>
de <st1:PersonName ProductID="La Repblica" w:st="on">la República</st1:PersonName>
efectúe una pronta y profunda investigación de estos casos y que por ningún
motivo queden en la impunidad. Además, <st1:PersonName
ProductID="la Fiscal￭a General" w:st="on">la Fiscalía General</st1:PersonName>
de <st1:PersonName ProductID="La Repblica" w:st="on">la República</st1:PersonName>
deberá investigar los móviles políticos detrás de estos asesinatos y no
descartarlos de antemano como suele hacer. Estaré al tanto del desarrollo
de la investigación, así como el posterior enjuiciamiento de los culpables, y
mantendré mis congresistas informados sobre la represión política en El
Salvador.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=ES-SV style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Atentamente,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>_______________ <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>To: Mr. Félix Garrid Safie<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Attorney General of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Republic</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>011-503-2249 - 8607<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>August 29, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear Mr. Félix Garrid
Safie,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I write you to express my
grave concern with regards to the murders of Alex Flores Montoya and Mercedes
Peñate de Montoya this past Wednesday, August 23<sup>rd</sup>. The
couple, both of whom were recognized FMLN leaders, were killed with a single
shot to the head and abandoned in the neighborhood of <st1:City w:st="on">San
Isidro</st1:City>, in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">municipality</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Coatepeque</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. The<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>y </span></font>leave behind their 3
children, who are 17, 21 and 25 years old. These killings come just weeks
after the brutal assassination on July 1<sup>st</sup> of the Manzanares, both
of whom were also militants in the FMLN.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Both murders were carried
out in the style of the death squads, armed clandestine groups that operated
with impunity during the war in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>. The fact that this type of
murder is more and more frequent, as well as the resurgence of social cleansing
groups like the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Sombra Negra</span></i> and
the Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez Central Commando and the denouncements of
extermination groups within the ranks of the National Civilian Police, all point
to a dangerous setback in the respect for human rights in El Salvador.
All of this is even more alarming when political repression in on the rise and
these executions appear to be deliberately targeting political activists on the
left.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Because of this, I ask
the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic carry out a prompt and
thorough investigation into these cases and that they are not left in impunity
for any reason. Furthermore, the Attorney General’s Office should
investigate the political motives behind these killings and not discard them a
priori as is usual the case. I will be following the development of the
investigations, as well as the subsequent judicial case against those
responsible, and maintain my congressmen and women informed about political
repression in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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