There is no other option, explained foreign policy specialist Napoleón Campos. He says that if Bukele continues to deepen “rule of law violations,” there will be very tough sanctions from the US.
For the foreign policy expert, Napoleón Campos, there is no doubt about it. It points out that US Congressman Norma Torres’s announcement to publish this week’s list of corrupt Central America corpses signifies another warning bubble about what President Nayib Bukele’s administration is exposed to in terms of harsh United States sanctions , as violations of human rights and the rule of law continue to increase.
“Here President Bukele has no option B, there is only option A and the option is to correct. This is a very serious wake-up call for President Bukele to rectify, he does not have option B, but one option called democratic rectification, ”Campos noted.
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Torres, California State Congressman, announced through an official statement that the list of corrupt people in the region will be published this week. The notice comes after the official was attacked by Bukele on Twitter, following Torres ‘criticism of the Central American governments’ immigration policies.
According to Campos, the US ministries are responding with this report to congressmen who asked US President Joe Biden on January 25 to do so.
And that it may also happen that the announcement of Torres falls within the possibilities that integrate both sanctions of the “Global Magnitsky Law” with the Engel list in the “Omnibus Bill” of December 26, 2020.
The global Magnitsky Act, passed in the United States in 2012, prosecutes foreigners accused of corruption and human rights violations and empowers governments to punish offenders by freezing foreign assets, and prohibits those on whom sanctions have been imposed from signing. country.
According to Campos, these sanctions do not come about overnight, in the case of El Salvador, they are directly related to the gradual democratic decline the country has experienced since the February 9, 2020 military raid on the Legislative Assembly. He adds that they are “the product of years of endemic corruption” that the nation has suffered.
According to Campos, the application of the Global Magnitsky Law would be a milestone in El Salvador’s history and an important turn of the wheel in Central America’s relations with the United States, especially El Salvador’s with the United States. States. North American country.
“ This change in the wheel should lead us to democratic rectification, it would be the worst that would lead us to tighten sanctions because the United States, European Union and Canada have also called out tyrants, despots in the past. and autocrats sanctions higher level, economic sanctions; it would be the worst, because whoever loses is the land and here are those responsible for this the ones called to rectify, ”Campos deepened.
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The expert assumes that the Human Rights Practices 2020 report, published last Tuesday by State Secretary Anthony Blinken, which mentions officials and allies of the Bukele government, can demonstrate that the sanctions could also target government institutions.
“Members of his cabinet already appear as persons of interest in last week’s State Department human rights report. This makes us think, those of us who are aware of these cases, as when individuals like Walter Araujo, mentioned in the report, such as the Secretary of the Treasury, Alejandro Zelaya and other members of the president’s cabinet, are mentioned and emphasized. Director of the PNC, the Secretary of Defense and the President of the Republic himself, because they refer to the events of February 9, where the armed forces and the PNC are used to intervene in the Legislative Assembly, ”argued Campos.