The Salvadoran president has not yet announced whether he will meet with Ricardo Zúñiga during his visit to El Salvador. The special envoy is in Guatemala next Tuesday.
In a publication of the news agency “La Voz de América” it was learned that the special envoy for the Northern Triangle of the United States, Ricardo Zúñiga, will meet with President Nayib Bukele, with public security authorities and a visit to the returnees attention center of the United States. the border with Mexico and returnees by air from the United States. “
However, Bukele has not yet confirmed whether he will meet with the US official in the coming days upon his arrival in El Salvador, nor has he detailed the agenda to follow.
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The only one who has spoken about it is the Presidential Commissioner, Carolina Recinos, who said: “We are very willing to work with any initiative that comes to work together and that comes to contribute to a long-standing problem, such as the migration issue. . ‘said the commissioner.
While El Salvador’s ambassador to the United States, Milena Mayorga, also published and later deleted a tweet stating that Zúñiga would meet Bukele directly, setting out the agenda the special envoy would have upon his arrival in El Savior.
Also, Mayorga explained on his Twitter account that the country is making efforts in various areas of investment and economic projection to prevent people from emigrating from El Salvador. He noted that embassies and consulates are “actively attracting foreign investment” and other tourism projects run by the government, such as Surf City and tariff incentives to attract investment in tourism.
“These and other efforts continue to create greater opportunities for Salvadorans not to leave the country, including to attract investment that fosters development poles and enables us to be a first-world tourist destination,” Mayorga wrote on his Twitter.
Zúñiga’s visit was announced two days ago by the US State Department, which arrived in El Salvador after also visiting Guatemala, where he met privately with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei.
Zúñiga’s mission is to address “the root causes of migration and irregular migration in, from and through the region, and humanitarian efforts to expand access to protection for the most deprived.”
According to the official statement, Zúñiga intends to “speak to stakeholders about our comprehensive and concerted efforts to address the root causes of migration and irregular migration”. It is not stated with whom he will hold such meetings.
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However, for foreign policy analysts such as Napoleón Campos, the State Department’s idea is to listen to other actors because of the loss of “confidence” that President Joe Biden’s government has with the Salvadoran government.
He adds that Biden is more interested in how El Salvador fights corruption and drug trafficking and respects the rule of law, the republic’s constitution and the institutional framework.
California congressman Norma Torres recently said that the United States would stop investing more money in governments that have failed to fulfill its responsibility to curb corruption, prompting Bukele to react against Torres.