LatinNews Daily Report - 26 April 2012

El Salvador | Gov’t to begin wire-tapping. On 25 April El Salvador’s attorney general, Romeo Barahona, announced that the government would begin wiretapping operations from a new centre for telecommunications interception (CIT) as of next month (May). A law passed in February 2010 gave the government the power to wiretap as part of efforts to combat organized crime. The CIT was funded with a US$5m grant from the US.

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