We Are Friends of the United States

The vice president of the Republic and former president of functions, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, declared that the FMLN has a friendly relationship with North Americans and that, as a party, they have “good relations with the United States government.”

“We are friends of the North American public, as we have demonstrated for many years; we have always relied on an enormous solidarity with North America,” he assured.

Sánchez Cerén gave the assurance that the party has good relations with the United States government and that they aspire to seek friendship and the well-being of El Salvador. He added that they take into account “thousands and thousands of Salvadorans who live in the United States.”

The same official expressed, on November 23rd, that Latin American countries should unite at the 5th Socialist International “because the empire (an allusion to the United States) has a desperate attitude, wanting to return and regain its presence in the continent.”

He gave declarations later of participating in the Extraordinary Congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela during the weekend in Caracas, Venezuela.

Nevertheless, he didn’t express an opinion yesterday over the declarations of the coordinator of the FMLN, Medardo González, who defined the party position as “anti-imperialist” and not “anti-americanist.”

Sánchez Cerén expressed that, as a party, the FMLN has “a position with respect to certain politics,” over those that refuse to delve into the past, but he emphasized the situation in Honduras and the installation of U.S. military bases in Colombia.

He affirmed that he “does not deny the friendship and that the search for friendship doesn’t deny that our party has an independent and sovereign position which includes our politics.”