Fitch: The worse part of the crisis has still not arrived to El Salvador

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Elsalvador.com publishes in its website: "The executive director of the risk assessors, Fitch Ratings, Mauricio Choussy, calculated that the crisis will have a transfer delay of some three quarters from the United States to the Central American region, a forecast that was confirmed by the former minister of the Salvadorian Economy, Yolanda de Gavidia, ´I believe that El Salvador has not yet felt the worse part and my perception is that it is going to be in the upcoming second semester that we are going to feel it,´ she affirmed."

Source: elsalvador.com

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