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Weekly Report - 03 November 2016 (WR-16-43)
EL SALVADOR: Saca arrest puts spotlight on Arena
The arrest of El Salvador’s former president Tony Saca (2004-2009) on 30 October, along with six officials who served in his cabinet, is being seen as a major test of the independence of the country’s justice system, which has never before put a former head of state on trial. But the scale of the brazen embezzlement and money laundering charges being levelled at Saca et al could also deliver a serious blow to the credibility of the now-opposition right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena), on whose ticket Saca came to power even though he became estranged from the party and was expelled in 2009.
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