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 on the site “ForeignLobby.com”, Bukele hired the lobbyist to minimize the impact of international criticism aroused by 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.
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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.
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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 United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained 1,908 Salvadorans who attempted to enter the United States without documents, 28% more than 1,488 than the office that became in February of fiscal year 2020 registered.
Bukele not only attacked her, 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.
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US President Joe Biden’s envoy came to El Salvador to meet with officials and other social sectors, such as businessmen and journalists, to provide solutions to the migration crisis that had arisen before the arrival of thousands on the southern border of the United States. of unaccompanied children.
In Guatemala he was received by President Alejandro Giammattei. Although he met Chancellor Alexandra Hill in El Salvador, no government agency bragged about the visit.
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