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DECEMBER No. 506

THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE SALVADOR,

CONSIDERING:

I.- In accordance with Article 131, ordinal 22 of the Constitution of the Republic, it is the authority of this State Body to grant persons or populations, titles, honorary distinctions and gratifications consistent with the established form of government, for relevant services rendered to the Homeland.

II.- That Article 6, paragraph (c) of the Law on Honorary Distinctions, Gratifications and Titles, establishes that the honorary distinctions of Notable and Distinguished or Distinguished, in their order of relevance, may be granted to Salvadoran or foreign residents, when the services or contributions that have been provided to the Patria, are related to the dissemination and use of the science, art, culture,

III.- That the poet Claribel Alegría, originally from Estelí, Nicaragua, daughter of Salvadoran mother, has in El Salvador her adoptive homeland, since she resided from the age of one year in Santa Ana, passing her childhood and first youth in our country until she concluded with her secondary studies, when she began one of her greatest adventures in the United States of America, where she studied at the University of Loyola, in New Orleans, and later in New Orleans.

IV.- That the poet Claribel Alegría, from a very young age, demonstrated her abilities as a multifaceted writer, with a delicate creative sensibility that found in her possessed her highest expression, which in a spit and sober way, recreates the eternal problem of the human being over love, death, longing and hope, achieving that her literary creation transcends the word and meets with the most vital and expressive flows of Latin America.

V.- That by virtue of the above merits, it is appropriate to grant the Honorary Distinction of “NOTABLE POETA AND DISTINGUIDA MAESTRA”, to the artist Claribel Alegría, in recognition of her invaluable literary contribution, with which she has contributed to the enrichment of the artistic and poetic heritage of El Salvador, encouraging the reading of the new generations, and fostering culture at the national level.

TANTO,

in the use of their constitutional powers and at the initiative of the Deputies and the Deputies: Othon Sigfrido Reyes Morales, Francisco Roberto Lorenzana Durán, Lorena Guadalupe Peña Mendoza, Sandra Marlene Salgado García, José Rafael Machuca Zelaya, Irma Lourdes Palacios Vásquez, Damián Alegría,

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Carlos Cortez Hernández, Blanca Noemí Coto Estrada, Rosa Alma Cruz Marinero, Antonio Echeverría Veliz, Juan Manuel de Jesús Flores Cornejo, Norma Fidelia Guevara de Ramirios, Benito Antonio Lara Fernández, Audelia Guadalupe López de Kleutgens, Rodolfo Antonio Martínez, Guillermo Francisco Mata Bennett, Oscar Ernesto Novoa Ayala, Orestes Fredesman Or

RIGHT:

Art. 1.- Tell the artist Claribel Alegría, “NOTABLE POETA AND DISTINGUIDA MAESTRA”, in recognition of her invaluable literary contribution, with which she has contributed to the enrichment of the artistic and poetic heritage of El Salvador, stimulating the reading of the new generations, and promoting culture at the national level.

Art. 2.- This Decree shall enter into force eight days after its publication in the Official Gazette.

DADO en EL SALON AZUL DEL PALACIO LEGISLATIVE: San Salvador, on the three days of October of the year two thousand thirteen.

OTHON SIGFRIDO MORALES, PRESIDENT.

ALBERTO ROMERO RODRIGUEZ, GUILLERMO ANTONIO GALLEGOS NAVARRETE, FIRST VICEPRESIDENT. SECOND VICEPRESIDENT.

JOSE FRANCISCO MERINO LOPEZ, FRANCISCO ROBERTO LORENZANA DURAN, TERCER VICEPRESIDENT. VICEPRESIDENT FOURTH.

ROBERTO JOSE d’AUBUISSON MUNGUIA, QUINTO VICEPRESIDENT.

LORENA GUADALUPE PEÑA MENDOZA, CARMEN ELENA CALDERON SOL DE ESCALON, FIRST SECRETARIAT. SECOND SECRETARIAT.

SANDRA MARLENE SALGADO GARCIA, JOSE RAFAEL MACHUCA ZELAYA, TERCERA SECRETARIA. SECRETARY FOURTH.

IRMA LOURDES PALACIOS VASQUEZ, MARGARITA ESCOBAR, QUINTA SECRETARIA. SECRETARY SIX.

FRANCISCO JOSE ZABLAH SAFIE, REYNALDO ANTONIO LOPEZ CARDOZA, SEPTIMO SECRETARIO. OCTAVO SECRETARY.

Presidential House: San Salvador, on the seventeenth day of October of the year two thousand thirteen.

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PUBLIQUESE,

Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, President of the Republic.

Gregorio Ernesto Zelayandía Cisneros, Minister of Governance.

D. O. No. 194 Volume No. 401 Date: October 18, 2013

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