A short-term plan is being prepared to improve the investment climate and lift objections from U.S. Congress to fund the delivery of the Millennium Challenge Corporation
The information was confirmed by the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Mari Carmen Aponte. Both governments are working on concrete actions in the short term to allow for these improvements.
Congress has unanimously endorsed the National General Budget for 2014 with an increase of $174 million compared to 2013.
From a press release issued by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador:
The National Assembly has unanimously passed the General Budget of the Nation and the corresponding Wages Act for Fiscal Year 2014. The decision indicates that it be "primarily oriented towards social areas so that El Salvador can have a population that is healthy, educated and productive with skills and opportunities to fully develop their potential and become the social basis of national development ".
The cameras will be installed at strategic points in the metropolitan area of San Salvador, to help monitor criminal acts.
Elmundo.com.sv reports that the Minister of Justice and Public Security, David Munguia said that President Mauricio Funes has given the order to get the funds.
Munguia said that with the placement of the devices, the PNC will be better able to track criminal acts.
The Deputy Minister of Transport of El Salvador has delayed for up to eight months permits for tourist transport vehicles.
Tour Operators meeting in the Salvadoran Chamber of Tourism (CASATUR), denounced the delay in the delivery of operation permits by the Vice Ministry of Transportation (VMT) and harassment by the Transit Police. Bureaucracy at the Vice Ministry has created delays of up to eight months in the granting of permits which has caused forfeiture of vehicles by the Police.
The South Korean government is to provide economic support for the implementation of digital security devices.
The project comprises the installation of a security system with closed-circuit television surveillance camaras to monitor areas worst affected by crime.
"The south east Asian country will also transfer technological information systems, supply state-of-the-art equipment and send Korean experts to El Salvador to train members of the country's police force," reports an article on Elsalavdor.com.