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Weekly Report - 04 February 2016 (WR-16-05)

Death of Flores casts doubt over seminal corruption case

El Salvador’s former president Francisco Flores (1999-2004) died on 30 January having slipped into a coma six days earlier after suffering a brain haemorrhage. Flores was under house arrest awaiting trial for corruption. It would have marked the first time ever that a head of state had gone on trial in El Salvador. Now there is real uncertainty over whether the serious corruption allegations with which Flores was charged will make it to a court of law even though a legislative investigation clearly implicated the leadership of his party, the now-opposition right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) in the wrongdoing.

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