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Central American leaders resisting Biden’s anticorruption efforts By Mary Beth Sheridan and Anna-Catherine Brigida Washington Post,Updated May 10, 2021, 4:16 p.m. Email to a Friend Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele delivered a speech during the commemoration of the Day of the Salvadoran Soldier and the 197th anniversary of the Salvadoran Armed Forces on Friday. After Bukele’s party won a supermajority in Congress, lawmakers voted this month to dismiss the attorney general and all five judges in the Supreme Court’s constitutional chamber.MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images MEXIC...

San Antonio Los Ranchos, El Salvador – For nearly 20 years, Amadeo Lopez, 57, voted for the left-wing party that emerged from the violent rebellion that he was part of: the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The party was formed after El Salvador signed a peace agreement in 1992 to end the war after leftist fighters took up arms against the United States-backed Salvadoran government. “We were convinced by a project for change, that promised justice for the country,” Lopez said. He wasn’t alone. From the first post-war elections up until 2015, as much as 90 percent of re...