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Macon MD Gets Help for El Salvador Wounded
We applaud the successful efforts of Dr., Miguel Faria, a Macon neurosurgeon, to round up medical equipment and supplies for war-torn El Salvador.
Faria, who practices at HCA Coliseum Medical Centers, toured El Salvador last spring and was shocked at the acute shortages of things like beds, wheelchairs and physical therapy equipment as well as of medications. Both military and civilian victims of the civil war between the leftist guerrillas (“terrorists” to Faria) and the U.S.-backed government were getting inadequate treatment.
Faria persuaded the chief executive officer of the Hospital Corporation of America, Dr. Thomas Frist, to survey HCA hospitals for functional but unneeded equipment, then collect it and send it to El Salvador. Well over $550,000 worth of equipment arrived there this fall as a result.
Enmeshed in politics though the question of aid to El Salvador is, we can all join in applauding the humanitarian efforts of Dr. Faria, Dr. Frist and their HCA colleagues.
Macon Telegraph Editorial Board
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My Tribute to El Salvador: This small Central American nation fought a war to the death against communist guerrilla insurgents during the 1980-1990s. Helen and I visited El Salvador during their Civil War with a group called Accuracy in Media (AIM) led by Reed Irvine and Joseph Golden. We went through charities there, visited military hospitals, and I interviewed soldiers whose legs had been blown up by communist-set mines that also killed women and children in the countryside. Helen is holding a SAM-7 (surface to air) missile, used by the communists to blow up airplanes, including civilian planes (terrorism).
Heavy ordinance including bombs, land mines, SAM-7 missile launchers, etc. were captured by the tough security forces of El Salvador. We had nothing but praise for the armed forces who fought the FMLN Marxist guerrillas and won, saving central America from communism. You can read more about this in pages 244-254 of my book Vandals at the Gates of Medicine (1994), which you can purchase very cheaply from Amazon or eBay today. I had a series of articles published in the Macon Telegraph, but I don’t think they are any longer available on the web. We thank Trump for deporting those criminals that were generously received by the courageous President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele, who incidentally was a former FMLN member who saw the light and became an ardent anti-communist, founding the Nuevas Ideas political Party in 2019 and becoming the hero of El Salvador that he is— ending the anarchy that had befallen El Salvador by the newly terrorist gangs and waves of crime that had befallen Central America and now spreading all over the Western Hemisphere. Bravo Trump and Kudos to you Nayib Bukele!
Bukele implemented the Territorial Control Plan in July 2019 to reduce El Salvador’s 2019 homicide rate of 38 per 100,000 people. Homicides fell by 50 percent during Bukele’s first year in office… After 87 people were killed by gangs over one weekend in March 2022, Bukele initiated a nationwide crackdown on gangs resulting in the arrests of over 85,000 people with alleged gang affiliations by December 2024. The country’s homicide rate decreased to 1.9 homicides per 100,000 in 2024, one of the lowest in the Americas… He ran for re-election in the 2024 presidential election and won with 85 percent of the vote —Wikipedia