According to a report on the ForeignLobby.com site, Nayib Bukele’s government has signed a $ 1.2 million advisory service contract with a former high-level diplomat.
After Nayib Bukele signed a $ 1.2 million contract with the Arnold & Porter agency to put it in charge of influencing a loan negotiation for the International Monetary Fund, Congressman Norma Torres, one of her harshest critics in the United States, said. States the fact and wrote on his Twitter account:
Instead of spending millions of dollars on a claims management lobbyist, Nayib Bukele should use those dollars to offset housing costs and feed thousands of innocent children fleeing corruption and gang violence in El Savior. “
As published by the ForeignLobby.com site, Bukele hired a lobbyist to minimize the impact of international criticism on his style of government. And for the decisions that have been made in recent weeks that have put his relationship with the White House in trouble.
Bukele is struggling to get closer to Joe Biden’s government, and his actions take him a little further from his mark: Last week, Bukele had a social media dispute with Democratic congressman Norma Torres, who is co-chair of the Central Caucus. America. in the United States Congress. Torres pointed to Bukele as a “narcissistic dictator” and did not care about the situation of Salvadoran migrants at the US border.
But Bukele not only attacked Torres, but asked residents of California’s 35th district not to vote for her. Something that prompted the condemnation of the US Congress’s Hispanic Caucus, which brings together 37 lawmakers.
Also this week, Bukele declined to receive the United States Department of State’s special envoy for the Northern Triangle, Ricardo Zúñiga, despite leading a meeting with the president.
US President Joe Biden’s envoy came to El Salvador to meet with officials and other sectors of society, such as businessmen and journalists, to provide solutions to the migration crisis that had developed on the southern border of the United States before its arrival of thousands of unaccompanied children.
For the United States, an unaccompanied child is a minor under the age of 17 who is traveling alone, with a coyote, or with a relative other than the parent. Some of the reasons why the CBP is laying down why children are not supervised are because they are trying to reunite with their families who are already in the United States and because they are escaping violence.
El Diario de Hoy published on April 3 that the number of Salvadorans detained at the southern border of the United States in February exceeded the number last year. In February of fiscal year 2021, the Office of Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP, for the abbreviation in English) detained 1,774 Salvadorans attempting to enter the United States without documents, 28% more than the 1,488 the office. registered in February of fiscal year 2020. On April 4, it was learned that of the 171,000 migrants of various nationalities detained at the southern border of the United States in March, approximately 4,069 were Salvadorans. Among them 1,569 children traveling alone; A figure that doubles the 770 in March last year and is higher than the 1,385 prisoners in the same period of 2019.
Torres blames Bukele for still migrating in El Salvador, one of the countries from which thousands of migrants come to the border.
Although Bukele denies that more Salvadorans are trying to reach the United States, the truth is that the country continues with the rising numbers reported by the Border Patrol.
For that reason, Zúñiga was urgently sent to this region. In Guatemala he was received by President Alejandro Giammattei, with whom he held bilateral private meetings. Although the meetings were well publicized. In El Salvador, Zúñiga met with Chancellor Alexandra Hill, but neither the government agency nor the Chancellor himself boasted about the visit.