El Salvador Diario De Hoy
El Salvador
In January a judge dismissed without prejudice the charges against Jose Ernesto Cordova for the 1999 murder of William Ernesto Rosales Bonilla, an employee of the newspaper El Diario de Hoy. The prosecutor appealed, and in February an appeals court upheld the lower court's decision. ... [Read More]
El Salvador
The Attorney General accused Judge Ricardo Canales Herrera of misappropriation, through negligence, of approximately $20,000 (185,000 colones). Canales had reported the loss of the money from his court's evidence storage room to the Attorney General and the Supreme Court and had requested the Court's help in strengthening security. The Court asserted that the judge had adequate infrastructure for storing the money securely. Canales renounced his immunity in October to expedite the investigation, and the Supreme Court dismissed him in November. Canales filed a complaint against the Supreme Court asserting that, in dismissing him, it had violated guarantees of due process and of equal protection under the laws. Presenting newspaper reports as evidence, he noted that there had been a multitude of losses from storerooms of other courts--including the Supreme Court itself--during the year, but no other judge had been investigated or disciplined. He maintained that the Court was using this i ... [Read More]
El Salvador
The Constitution provides for a right to privacy, and government authorities generally respected this right in practice. The law requires the police to have a resident's consent, a warrant, or a reasonable belief that a crime is under way or is about to be committed before entering a private dwelling. Police can use undercover agents with the permission of the Attorney General and enter legally private property without a warrant when criminal activity is suspected. With a judge's order, samples of blood and other bodily fluids can be taken without the consent of the accused. Section 2 Respect for Civil Liberties, Including: a. Freedom of Speech and Press The Constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the press, and the Government generally respected these rights in practice. Print and broadcast journalists from all major media ... [Read More]
Embajada de Estados Unidos en Guatemala - CAFTA - Tratado Libre Comercio CAUSA
EDUARDO AYALA GRIMALDI: Yo creo que algo muy importante es darle el justo valor que tienen las ofertas, y el justo valor para nosotros es muy elevado. Pero es el valor que tiene una oferta de inicio. Y creo que si este fuese un edificio, y estamos sentado la base para iniciar el trabajo, creo que estamos el valor del techo antes de ponerlo, y no le estamos dando el valor que tiene la base, que es este oferta que hemos presentado. Esto nos da el cimiento importante y necesario para poder acomodando los intereses de todos durante el proceso de esta negociación. No es la lista definitiva, sino que es la oferta que cada uno de nosotros hemos hecho en cuanto a la apertura del mercado hoy, que inicia el trabajo para construir el resto del edificio, que será la última de las listas con todo el tratado, y entonces vamos a valorar al final el edificio en su conjunto que hoy por hoy creo que cometeríamos un error de darle un valor a la lista inicial que no tiene en este momento, no es la ... [Read More]
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