Gunmen Wound Key Salvadoran Rightist
Unknown gunmen Wednesday shot and seriously wounded a Salvadoran rightist ideologue and founder of a disbanded paramilitary group, the armed forces said.
Gabriel Payes was shot twice in the chest by two men as he stepped out of his car near a computer store on the west side of San Salvador, the armed forces press office said. No one took immediate responsibility for the attack.
Payes is a member of the rightist Institute of International Relations (IRI) and in May co-founded the Patriotic Civil Defenses, which was disbanded by the government of former President Jose Napoleon Duarte shortly after its formation.
The shooting follows a series of attacks in San Salvador on members or allies of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena party), which has been in power since June 1.
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