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Caribbean & Central America - October 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: New tax tabled to fund war on gangs
With monthly homicides spiralling to ever-more alarming heights, the government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén has presented a bill to the legislative assembly to raise additional tax revenue to finance its public security initiative ‘El Salvador Seguro’. The ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) is at present alone in supporting the unpopular bill and will need allies for it to pass.
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