by the El Reportero’s wire services
Salvador Sánchez CerénThe next government of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) will seek to generate more jobs, so it is urgent to strengthen the country’’s development, said today President-elect Salvador Sanchez Ceren.
In an interview with a local TV channel, Sánchez Ceren explained that to achieve this goal it is necessary to respect the rights of workers and improve their wages, stimulate the industrial sector through the creation of an institutional framework and stimulate investment.
In this regard, he recalled that the present government of Mauricio Funes and the FMLN were able to increase revenues to the extent that they were improving employment conditions.
For the new mandate, there are opportunities for the economic boom of the country because they inherit more than US$ 800 million for the administration of Funes, he said.
Many international companies are interested in investing in the country, much in energy and, in this context, Sanchez Ceren said they will seek mechanisms for El Salvador to be part of Petrocaribe. He also denied that ALBA-Petróleos El Salvador exerts some kind of influence on the nation as one of the questions suggested. We know that understanding will be difficult on some issues, but we must put before the interests of the country, for that reason he insisted on dialogue and national agreements.
Unasur arrives in Caracas to the perfect narrative
The Venezuelan military high command emitted an unusually long (780-word) communiqué in response to the arrest of three generals accused by President Nicolás Maduro of plotting a coup d’état, in which it congratulated itself on its “coherent” conduct in the face of “the situation denominated a soft coup” taking place in Venezuela since 12 February. If that were not politicised enough, the statement went on to declare that the “monolithic” Bolivarian national armed forces (FANB) is no longer the “elitist and removed from-the-everyday” institution of yore, and that thanks to its “supreme and eternal commander”, Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), its fundamental priority now is to achieve “the wellbeing of all Venezuelans”, and to be “at the forefront of the country’s development”.
Russia interested in Nicaragua’s inter-oceanic canal
A delegation from the Russian State Duma in Nicaragua has expressed Russia’’s interest in participating in the construction of an intercondiciones oceanic canal in Nicaragua.
Laureano Ortega, a delegate from the Investment Promotion Agency of the Government of Nicaragua, said on television that he had held meetings with the parliamentarians and that they were well informed and very interested in the project.
Logically, consultations about how Russian companies might participate in the project have taken place, Ortega said, adding that Nicaragua’s image overseas is quite positive.
Earlier this year, the Sandinista government and the HKND Group, the canal’s concessionaire company, informed that the works for this mega project will start in the last quarter of 2014.
Along with the inter-oceanic waterway, two deep-water ports, a pipeline, new airports and a railroad will also be built.
Russian parliamentarians also held meetings with Foreign Minister Samuel Santos and representatives from the Ministry of Industry, Development and Trade, in which they expressed their interest in strengthening cooperative ties with Nicaragua.
The Russian State Duma delegation arrived in Nicaragua on Tuesday for a two-day visit.
(Prensa Latina and Latin News contributed to this news report).
