El Salvador launches commission to find those missing from civil war
presidents and Congress for decades. The last one was passed in 1986 under Republican President Ronald Reagan.
Trump’s plan falls short of the sweeping, bipartisan package crafted by Reagan and congressional Democrats, analysts said.
The White House said that, under the proposal, typical middle-class families would have less income subject to federal tax. Trump said the first $12,000 earned by an individual and the first $24,000 by a married couple would be tax-free.
The plan would lower the top individual tax rate, paid by the nation’s top earners, to 35 percent from 39.6 percent.
It would lower the top corporate income tax rate to 20 percent from the current 35 percent. The existing rate is high globally, but many U.S.based multinationals pay much less than the headline rate because of abundant loopholes and tax breaks.
Trump has appealed to Democrats to back the plan, although they were not consulted in drafting it. MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) - El Salvador yesterday launched the first commission to search for persons who went missing during its civil war, 25 years after the end of a conflict that left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of cases unresolved.
The commission will seek victims who were killed or kidnapped by the military or rebels in order to help reunite them with families or return their remains
People who lost relative have demanded such measures for decades.
“With this instrument we reaffirm our deep commitment to pay off the historical debt to the victims of forced disappearances in the country,” said leftist President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, himself a former guerrilla leader.
The 1980-1992 war in El Salvador between the U.S.backed army and the Marxist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), now the ruling party, left 75,000 dead and 8,000 missing.
“We hope that this commission gives something to the mothers because what we want is at least for them to tell us what they did with them,” said Sofía Hernandez, 74, who is looking for a daughter, two brothers and four nephews.
Last year, the Supreme Court of Justice declared unconstitutional an amnesty law that has prevented since 1993 investigating and prosecuting those accused of war crimes in the impoverished Central American country.