Tony Saca, Former Salvadoran President, Arrested on Corruption Charges
Tony Saca, Former Salvadoran President, Arrested on Corruption Charges
“Something truly historic is happening in Latin America today. These changes are occurring even in the hemisphere’s most fragile countries,” highlights AS/COA’s Brian Winter.
The former president of El Salvador, Tony Saca, was arrested Saturday on charges ranging from money laundering to illicit enrichment. Six other government officials from his time in office were also arrested as part of the corruption probe.
Mr. Saca, who held office from 2004 to 2009, is the third former president of the Central American nation to have been subjected to recent investigations in relation to corruption….
… Perhaps the most widely publicized of these cases in recent months has been the two-pronged investigation in Brazil, exposing pervasive political corruption in relation to the nation’s oil giant, Petrobras, while also impeaching the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, on unrelated charges….
… “It’s one thing for Brazil or Chile, with a longer history of strong institutions, to investigate the powerful and put them in jail,” wrote Brian Winter, editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly, earlier this year. “But Guatemala? A country that just 20 years ago was in the throes of civil war?”….
