Two years remain in the presidential term of Mauricio Funes, who since assuming the presidency of El Salvador has proposed to change the face of his country, which after 20 years of rule by the rightist ARENA Nationalist Republican Alliance, showed high rates of poverty and violence.

Violent murders, unemployment and corruption characterized the two decades of ARENA in power. El Salvador went on to become one of the most insecure Central American nations, while senior public officials and big private business leaders defrauded millions of the public economy.

Upon receiving the administration of the country on June 1^st, 2009, the nation was hit by an international crisis, businesses were closed, and the country had lost 40 thousand jobs and local production was paralyzed.

Therefore, in the three years since then, the spirit of the present government has been caring for those who were marginalized and that principle will remain as the core challenge of the two remaining years of his term, said the president.

To that end, we have taken a number of initiatives that are conducive to benefit some 4 million Salvadorans, primarily in the 100 poorest municipalities.

They recently inaugurated drinking water projects in communities in the central province of La Paz, which lacked this vital service and paid 3 dollars a barrel for the precious liquid to private individuals.

The authorities are also investing in roads, connectivity, social infrastructure, of mitigation and risk prevention.

The Family Agriculture Planlaunched by the government, for instance, is committed for the comprehensive development of rural families and the growth of agricultural production.

Violence has been another vital issue on which we have worked hard over these 3 years. On this topic, stresses the truce between gangs Mara Salvatrucha and Mara 18, which according to the president, opens a historic opportunity to restore a society injured by violence.

The truce, in force since March, has led to the decline in the number of homicides to a third part, despite the average of 14-5 daily murders.

With this policy, the Funes’ government seeks to stabilize a strategy to create job opportunities and training courses for young people and prevent their rejoining to gangs. 

It is clear seen that the Salvadoran government continues its economic and human enhancement, which allows the Central American nation to continue its development path.

In Cuba, where the process for a thorough updating of the economic model is being implemented, it is essential the increasing contribution to state coffers by way of taxes, in accordance with the duties of citizens, even when there is no deeply rooted tradition in the country.

Promoting tax culture in Cuba is not a fad but an unavoidable goal. Among the first population segments gradually added to the contributions there are freelancers.

To the extent that the workforce in the official fields, in exploration efficiency and lower costs production is streamlined, it is important to mention the departures of workers to non-production state forms.

The employees in the private sector had a stimulating action in the first half of the year in what are called the Sworn Statement Campaign on Personal Incomes.
                                                                       
84 per cent of taxpayers´ participation represents an encouraging step, in accordance with the recent addition of such citizen practices, which are essential to fund state basic services.

Among those included in this amount of contributors to the public funds through the National Tax Administration Office, there are more than 140,000 workers living by their own efforts.
                                                                       
The institution supervises the documents submitted by depositors to define the accuracy of the reports, as common in other countries with regard to taxes.

But the most significant aspect is the trend in compliance with the duties on taxes, a goal that it is still necessary to insist upon in Cuba.

In a context where there is a tendency to reduce excessive subsidies and will be applied to the needy, the individual contribution to the financing of public coverage cannot be postponed.

If there are over 380,000 workers who work on their own initiative and it is known that the figure could increase to almost 600,000 by the end of 2012, it is easy to assume the relevance of their contributions to the Treasury.

In the future it is expected that non-state forms can guarantee as much as 40 percent of our GDP.

That will be the impetus of the country by extending and strengthening discipline, control, organization of the economy and society.

Given the amount of deposits, Cuban authorities are improving the tax system and people must learn about their duties if they are required to pay taxes, based on those who have higher incomes.