The Democratic congresswoman responded to Bukele’s action by asking California citizens not to vote in the next election. Torres criticized in an interview that the Salvadoran president sent him 49 tweets and retweets.
Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres said Monday she hopes President Nayib Bukele will be investigated for running in a “federal election” after urging California citizens not to vote on Twitter in the next election.
Torres, a staunch critic of the Bukele government, who has repeatedly questioned the migration crisis in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; He said that to date, no president has campaigned against the election of a congressman in the United States.
“It didn’t happen, it’s something that needs to be investigated because it’s something illegal that he did to interfere in a federal election, here in the United States it’s a crime, so I hope the FBI will investigate this because it doesn’t it corresponds to him. tell them to tell my constituents who to vote for, as I am not involved in their elections, “he said.
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In an interview with Univision’s Al Punto with Jorge Ramos, Torres added that she is not surprised by the Salvadoran president’s violent response because he assures that “this is how he behaves with journalists, women, all people who oppose what he wants to do ”.
“What surprised me is that a president of a Republic has spent all night, since I made that tweet, the other day at 9 in the morning he sent 49 tweets and retweets against me,” she added when interviewed by the journalist. León Krauze.
Torres added that if Bukele paid the same attention to “saving the lives of the Salvadoran people, we would not have those problems, the symptoms of what is happening in the region.”
In her tweet published on April 1, in which Bukele asked the legislator not to vote, she accused her, without evidence, that her government’s criticism by the legislator was due to the fact that he received “funding”.
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In recent days, Torres has attributed the migration crisis to the governments of the Nordic Triangle countries, ensuring that the number of children traveling alone to the United States is worrying and has been very critical of the governments in Bukele, El Salvador; Alejandro Giammattei, in his native Guatemala; and Juan Orlando Hernández, in Honduras, believing that their lack of transparency, signs of corruption in their administrations and their blows to institutions are triggers for the mass exodus of its citizens, who are trying to reach the United States without documents.
His diagnosis coincides with that of the Joe Biden administration, which identifies the lack of economic opportunities, insecurity, corruption and weak institutions as the factors pushing thousands of people to emigrate illegally to the United States.
Recently the official sent a letter and called on the Biden government to limit funding to Central American governments, because they consider themselves corrupt and have poor governance.
This week, after it was learned that the Salvadoran president had signed a $ 1.2 million contract with Arnold & Porter, so that it would be responsible for influencing a loan negotiation with the International Monetary Fund, Bukele was questioned by Norma Torres.
Instead of spending millions of dollars on a damage control lobby, Nayib Bukele should use those dollars to offset the cost of housing and feed thousands of innocent children fleeing corruption and gang violence in El Salvador. ” he wrote on Twitter.
According to a publication on ForeignLobby.com, Bukele hired a lobbyist to minimize the impact of international criticism for his style of governance. And for the decisions taken in recent weeks that put his relationship with the White House in difficulty. The investigation indicated that the El Salvadoran government had signed a $ 1.2 million contract for counseling services with a former high-level diplomat.