On Thursday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights urged El Salvador to take "urgent measures" to protect the chronically ill woman, who sought an abortion that could save her life.
President Laura Chinchilla on Friday denied claims by a Costa Rican woman who worked as an attorney for the biggest money-laundering operation in history and said she was an “advisor” in 2005 to Chinchilla, who was a lawmaker at the time.