Salvadoran archbishop criticized for political comment
September 28, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador has stirred angry public comments with a statement that was widely interpreted as endorsing a re-election bid by the country’s President Nayib Bukele.
The constitution of El Salvador limits the president to a single term. But the Bukele administration quickly circulated the archbishop’s statement that many people would like to support a re-election bid because “now they see a light in the path ahead.”
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