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Caribbean & Central America - July 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: Clash with judiciary reaches fever pitch
President Salvador Sánchez Cerén has launched his fiercest assault on the judiciary in a long conflict that could have serious political and economic ramifications. The whole of El Salvador’s political class has accused the constitutional chamber of the supreme court of justice (CSJ) at various points over the last five years of overstepping the mark and surpassing its remit. Sánchez Cerén went much further. He pinned the blame for any deterioration in public security in El Salvador on the five magistrates sitting on the constitutional chamber after they decided to block his administration’s emission of bonds to the tune of US$900m while deliberating on a legal challenge to the procedure that led to their approval.
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