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Corruption in El Salvador is a problem at all levels of government, however, according to a poll conducted by the Cid-Gallup in February 2023, only 4 percent of Salvadorans believed corruption as the most pressing issue facing the country.
A former national security adviser to El Salvador's government, who had accused a congressman from the ruling New Ideas party of corruption and drug trafficking, died in state custody in unclear ...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Friday unveiled a new independent commission to tackle corruption, taking inspiration from a U.N.-backed body that toppled the previous president of ...
Muyshondt was personally invited by Bukele to attend his inauguration as president of El Salvador on 1 June 2019. [14] Muyshondt became Bukele's national security advisor. [6] [15] [16] In May 2021, Muyshondt, Bukele's brothers Yusef and Ibrajim, and other Salvadoran officials attended an online meeting to discuss potentially making cryptocurrency legal tender in El Salvador; the meeting came ...
[4] [7] [8] The Supreme Court of El Salvador also condemned his action and prohibited him from calling the Legislative Assembly and prohibited the Ministry of Defense to carry out any actions not allowed by the Constitution. [5] [9] The incident was cited as a case of democratic backsliding in El Salvador. [10] [11] [12]
The 2020 Salvadoran political crisis, commonly referred to in El Salvador as the numeronym 9F [1] [2] or El Bukelazo, [3] was an incident in El Salvador on 9 February 2020. . During the political crisis, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele sent 40 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army into the Legislative Assembly building in an effort to coerce politicians to approve a loan request of 109 million ...
China is making its influence felt in Latin America and the Caribbean in a way officials say is harmful to the U.S. and via methods the U.S. can't employ.
In the midst of a political campaign, the former president was sued on 21 October 2013 for corruption and money laundering. [17] On 7 March 2016, the El Salvador Supreme Court ordered Saca to stand trial for illegal enrichment. [18] On 12 September 2018, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a tribunal. [1]