Ex-minister Carlos Caceres is among those arrested on charges of embezzling state funds AFP/-SAN SALVADOR: El Salvador's attorney general has issued an arrest warrant for leftist former president Salvador Sanchez Ceren and announced the apprehension of several ex-ministers on charges of embezzling state funds.
President Nayib Bukele, who replaced Sanchez Ceren, tweeted that his predecessor was"officially a fugitive from justice," as he had"left our country via a terrestrial border in December 2020, and never came back." Their leftist FMLN party, a former guerilla group, cried foul and accused Bukele's government of using state machinery for"political persecution."When he came to power in 2019, Bukele broke decades of power alternating between the FMLN and the rightwing Arena party.
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