SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - The party of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele voted early on Sunday to remove the country's top prosecutor, part of an intensifying political purge that has rocked the Central American country and drawn international criticism.
The vote shortly after midnight to dismiss Attorney General Raul Melara followed a new legislative majority's votes on Saturday night to kick out all of the judges on the constitutional chamber of the nation's supreme court, which the small opposition and even one of U.S. President Joe Biden's advisers criticized.
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