Walter Eduardo Durán Martínez, a lawyer by profession and currently a defender of the rights of civil society, is a representative and member of the National Union of Lawyers for Justice and Democracy (UNAJUD).
In his political career, he has a long history as a militant of the FMLN, one that catapulted him to a deputation for Usulután for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). He was a deputy for two periods, between 2003 and 2009.
With the arrival of the FMLN to power, he acted as an advisor to the Secretariat for legal affairs of the Presidency and, in addition, as an advisor to the legislative fraction.
In 2019 he was appointed Consul of El Salvador in Los Angeles, United States, a position he held until 2014. For the second FMLN government, he was appointed Ambassador of El Salvador in Ecuador.
With the FMLN’s removal from power, Durán now describes himself as a human rights defender and lawyer by profession. However, he claims to have his ties with the left-wing party alive, which he assures lacks a restructuring that allows him to redirect a strategy that will get him out of the crisis in which he finds himself. This happens, he says, to extirpate his bad pictures.
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