police clash with election violence

Why is it so hard sometimes to see theat people have different views and opinons on many things why must people resort to violence to resolve even the most mundane of issues..

SAN SALVADOR -- At least one person was killed, two police officers were wounded and seven young men were arrested in election-related violence in El Salvador, the National Civilian Police, or PNC, said Sunday.Ulises Vladimir Perez was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in San Martin, a city located 18 kilometers (11 miles) east of San Salvador, while putting up election posters for the Democratic Revolutionary Front, or FDR, party.Salvadoran media reported that the 17-year-old boy was a target because he had witnessed an attack a month ago on a relative who also belongs to the FDR.Oscar Esquivel, an FDR legislative candidate, told reporters he was not ruling out a political motive for the killing.El Salvador is holding legislative and municipal elections on Jan. 18 and a presidential election on March 15, with different polls showing the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, a former guerrilla group, leading.

Two police officers were wounded Saturday afternoon when supporters of the ruling rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, party and the FMLN clashed in Santo Tomas, a city located 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) southeast of the capital.Six people were arrested in the incident, which started when young men who back the FMLN saw the ARENA supporters putting up campaign posters and confronted them, the PNC said.

The two sides exchanged words and then started fighting with sticks and stones, injuring two PNC officers who had responded to the disturbance.Six additional patrol cars were needed to restore order, and the FMLN supporters were arrested for allegedly starting the disturbance.