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Weekly Report - 10 August 2017 (WR-17-31)
EL SALVADOR: Financial crisis takes on new dimension
El Salvador’s top court is increasingly assuming the role of a political actor to fill a void which has pushed the country into financial crisis. The constitutional chamber of the supreme court (known simply as the ‘Sala’) has never shied away from contentious resolutions; in July last year, for instance, it struck down the amnesty law which had shielded perpetrators of human rights abuses during the civil war (1980-1992) from prosecution. In the last two weeks, however, it has waded into the economic arena much to the chagrin of the government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén.
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