{"id":117337,"date":"2021-04-05T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117337"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T04:05:27","slug":"funeral-held-for-salvadoran-killed-by-mexican-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117337","title":{"rendered":"Funeral held for Salvadoran killed by Mexican police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Funeral-held-for-Salvadoran-killed-by-Mexican-police.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Funeral-held-for-Salvadoran-killed-by-Mexican-police.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SAN SALVADOR, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Salvadoran woman who died at the hands of Mexican police was buried in the southwest of El Salvador, in the presence of family and close friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coffin of Victoria Salazar was driven in a white car from a funeral home in Sonsonate, 65 kilometers southwest of San Salvador, to a private cemetery in La Generosa, on the outskirts of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe family gave Victoria a Christian burial today (Sunday), and close friends attended the funeral,\u201d a spokesman for the presidential office, which helped Salazar\u2019s family repatriate her body from Mexico, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salazar\u2019s body was repatriated from Mexico on Saturday. Her mother and her two daughters, aged 15 and 16, accompanied the body. Her family has asked that her death not go unpunished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 36-year-old victim, who had lived in Mexico for five years, died on March 27 after being subdued by police officers in Tulum, a Caribbean resort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state prosecutor there said the police used \u201cdisproportionate force\u201d against Salazar, which caused a fatal spine fracture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, the prosecutor\u2019s office said that four police officers accused of being involved in Salazar\u2019s death were formally charged after being arrested on the day of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge in charge of the case determined the prosecution had presented sufficient evidence to \u201cprove the probable participation of the four policemen in the crime of femicide\u201d and remanded them into custody, according to a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Salvador\u2019s President Nayib Bukele has called for those responsible to face justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Archbishop of San Salvador, Jose Luis Escobar, lamented Salazar\u2019s death during a press conference Sunday and urged the governments of El Salvador, Mexico and the United States to defend and respect \u201cthe rights of migrants.\u201d &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN SALVADOR, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Salvadoran woman who died at the hands of Mexican police was buried in the southwest of El Salvador, in the presence of family and close friends. The coffin of Victoria Salazar was driven in a white car from a funeral home in Sonsonate, 65 kilometers southwest of San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}