Today, January 16, 2011, celebrating an anniversary of signing the peace accords, which ended the Salvadoran civil war.
This afternoon, at a family gathering, my aunts were discussing the issue and came to the conclusion that it was preferable to that time. How sad to recognize that today, in El Salvador, live more insecure than before.
Before, there were two sides to the common Salvadoran had a chance to live out of the conflict if it did not interfere with anyone. Now, there is a clear enemy, no sides, but still at war.
Today it is easy to die in an argument over a parking lot, in an assault on the bus, victims of a motorrata or your business by not paying rent. Gradually distrust any means that we see as our enemy. Cree
we are being too fatalistic? read the paper. I recently heard an expression that sums it up, "Nothing new in the newspaper, just dead."
remember that in 1983, was 6 years old then, my dad gave me instructions in case something were to happen to him and my mom taught me where was the revolver and life insurance, made me learn the phone to my aunt, who would look after us with a possible fatality. "When I'm not, you're the man of the house, you take care of your mother and your brother." I was not involved in politics, or the government or the guerrillas, was a citizen but stray bullets were for ordinary citizens.
Today, my daughter is 6 years, the last thing I want is to say where are the insurance papers in case something happened to me. But as things go ...
What I keep wondering is how long continue and, if those responsible for the security of the country are doing their work this is going to turn into the Wild West, where everyone took the law into their hands.
are things that happen in third world countries.
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