Respect for the Rule of Law

In El Salvador foreign investors are astonished when they learn that legislators refuse to accept rulings by the Supreme Court of Justice.

Monday, July 1, 2013

An editorial by Álvaro Cruz Rojas, chief editor of Elmundo.com.sv, shows clearly why Direct Foreign Investment, and even national investment, has fallen so much in recent years, precisely when other Latin American countries are enjoying a boom in this area.

"... An international consultant told me last week that the most difficult thing to explain about El Salvador is when you have to tell foreign businessmen that the President of the Assembly and deputies refuse to accept rulings by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. "

"... They just ask me to explain it to them because they do not understand it. In their minds it is inexplicable that a deputy or a president of parliament would not comply with rulings ".

Legal security, they say ...

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