Fitch affirms El Salvador

Fitch Ratings said it affirmed El Salvador's long-term, foreign-currency issuer default rating at B- with a stable outlook.

Fitch said the rating reflects El Salvador's recent history of local currency defaults and heightened political tensions that made reaching agreements on government financing difficult (a two-thirds majority in the legislature is needed for external debt authorization).

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