The Democratic congressman responded to Bukele’s move to ask California residents not to vote for her in the next election. Torres criticized in an interview that the Salvadoran president had sent 49 tweets and retweets against her.
Democratic Congressman Norma Torres said Monday she hopes President Nayib Bukele will be investigated for meddling “in a federal election” after asking California citizens not to vote for her in the next election via Twitter.
Torres, a staunch critic of the Bukele government who has repeatedly questioned the migration crisis in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; He said it has not happened to this day for a president to campaign 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 what he did to interfere in a federal election, here in the United States it’s a crime so I hope the FBI will investigate to this because it doesn’t agree with him. tell him to tell my constituents who to vote for since I’m not involved in their elections, “he said.
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In an interview about the Al Punto program with Jorge Ramos, from Univision, Torres added that she is not surprised by the violent reaction of the Salvadoran president, assuring that “ he behaves like this with journalists, women, with all the people who oppose what he wants to do ”.
“What did surprise me is that a president of a republic spent all night, since I made that tweet, last at 9am, he’d sent 49 tweets and retweets against me,” she added when she became interviewed by the journalist León Krauze. .
Torres added that if Bukele paid the same attention “to saving the lives of the Salvadoran people, we wouldn’t have those problems, the symptoms of what is happening in the region.”
In his tweet published April 1, asking Bukele not to vote for the legislator, he also accused her, without proof, that the criticism of his government, by the legislator, is due to the fact that she receives ‘funding’. .
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In recent days, Torres has blamed the migration crisis on the governments of the Northern Triangle countries, causing concern for the number of children traveling alone to the United States, and has been highly critical of the governments of Bukele, in El Savior; Alejandro Giammattei, in his native country of Guatemala; and Juan Orlando Hernández, in Honduras, given that their lack of transparency, the signs of corruption in their administrations and their blows to the institutions are triggers for the mass exodus of its citizens, who are trying to denounce documents in the United States. come.
His diagnosis coincides with that of the Joe Biden administration, who identifies the lack of economic opportunity, insecurity, corruption and weak institutions as the factors driving thousands of people to immigrate illegally to the United States.
The official recently sent a letter and asked Biden’s government to limit funding to Central American governmentsas it believes they are corrupt and poorly managed.
This week, after it was learned that the Salvadoran president had signed a $ 1.2 million contract with the agency Arnold & Porter so that it is in charge of influencing a loan negotiation for the International Monetary Fund, Bukele was questioned by Norma Torres .
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 Salvador, ”he wrote. on Twitter.
According to a publication on 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. This investigation found that the government of El Salvador has signed a $ 1.2 million advisory services contract with a former high-level diplomat.