The Democratic congresswoman responded to Bukele’s action by asking California citizens not to vote for her in the next election. Torres criticized in an interview that the Salvadoran president sent 49 tweets and retweets against her.
Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres said Monday she expects President Nayib Bukele to be investigated for interfering “in a federal election” after she asked Twitter citizens in the state of California not to vote for her in the coming days. elections.
Torres, a fierce critic of the Bukele government, which has repeatedly questioned the migration crisis in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; he said it has not happened to date that a president has campaigned against the election of a congressman in the United States.
“It hasn’t happened, it’s something that needs to be investigated because it’s an illegal thing that he did when he interfered in a federal election, here in the United States it’s a crime, so I hope the The FBI is investigating this because it is not up to him to tell my voters who to vote for, as I am not involved in their election, “he said.
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In an interview on Univision’s A el Punt program with Jorge Ramos, Torres added that he was not surprised by the Salvadoran president’s violent response as he said “this is how he behaves with journalists, women, all people. who oppose what he wants to do. “
“What really surprised me was that a President of a Republic spent the whole night, since I did this tweet, at 9 in the morning the other day he had sent 49 tweets and retweets against me,” she added to being interviewed by journalist Leon Krauze.
Torres added that if Bukele paid the same attention “to saving the lives of the Salvadoran people, we would not have these problems, the symptoms of what is happening in the region.”
In her tweet posted on April 1, in which Bukele asks not to vote for the legislature, he also accused her, without evidence, that criticism of her government, by the legislature, is due to the fact that she receives ” financing “.
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In recent days, Torres has attributed the migration crisis to the governments of the Northern Triangle countries, saying it is worrying how many children travel alone to the United States, and has been very critical of the Bukele governments, in El Salvador; Alejandro Giammattei, in his native Guatemala; and Juan Orlando Hernández, in Honduras, considering that their lack of transparency, signs of corruption in their administrations and their blows to the institution are triggers for the mass exodus of its citizens, who seek to reach undocumented American territory.
His diagnosis coincides with that of the Joe Biden administration, which identifies lack of economic opportunities, insecurity, corruption, and weak institutionalization as the factors pushing thousands of people to emigrate illegally to the United States.
Recently the official sent a letter and he called on the Biden government to restrict funding to Central American governments, As it considers them corrupt and has bad governance.
This week, after learning that the Salvadoran president signed a $ 1.2 million contract with the Arnold & Porter agency to take charge of a loan negotiation with the International Monetary Fund, Bukele went be questioned by Norma Torres.
“Instead of spending millions of dollars on a damage control lobby, Nayib Bukele should use those dollars to offset the cost of housing and feed thousands of innocent children fleeing gang corruption and violence. in El Salvador, “he wrote on Twitter.
According to a post on ForeignLobby.com, Bukele hired a lobbyist to minimize the impact of international criticism raised by his style of government. And because of the decisions made in recent weeks that put their relationship with the White House in difficulty. This investigation noted that the government of El Salvador signed a $ 1.2 million contract for advisory services with a former high-level diplomat.