Prior to taking office as vice president, Kamala Harris was a senator for California, the same state that Congresswoman Torres represents. Bukele charged against Torres and asked not to vote for the official after his criticisms of the Salvadoran government’s migration policies.
In attacking his latest Twitter posts against US Congresswoman Norma Torres, after criticism of the Salvadoran government for its migration policy, President Nayib Bukele overlooks a key aspect that could lead to a reduction or withdrawal of aid and cooperation that El Salvador receives from the United States.
For what reason? Foreign policy expert Napoleon Camps puts it this way: “President Bukele is ignoring something, President (Joe) Biden has put the team at the head of Latin America and the vice president herself on migration issues. Kamala Harris, “however, given the lack in the Executive of a team with intellectual knowledge of good foreign policy management, they forget that Vice President Harris before taking office was Senator for California, the same State represented by Congresswoman Torres.
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“And he forgets (to Bukele) that he is part of Mrs. Kamala Harris’ team, has been Congresswoman Norma Torres, and going to the extreme President Bukele to call on Latin voters in the district of which he is representative the Chamber, Mrs. Norma Torres, it seems to me something that I can’t find her head or feet, “said Camps.
Bukele asked his supporters in California not to vote for Congresswoman Norma Torres. Photo: Twitter @nayibbukele
And it is that Bukele urged Central Americans living in California and all Latinos in District 35 of California not to vote for Congresswoman Torres.
“I hope all my Salvadoran, Mexican, Honduran, Guatemalan, Dominican, Venezuelan and all Latin American brothers in District 35 of California DO NOT VOTE for @NormaJTorres. It doesn’t work for you, but to keep our countries underdeveloped.” , Bukele wrote on Twitter.
Bukele’s displeasure with Congresswoman Torres is because the official questioned that migration is “the result of dictators more interested in their own benefit as their people escape by the 1000 and die by the 100.”
This after learning of a video where it is observed to a coyote throwing two girls from the wall that divides Mexico with the United States to move illegally to this country.
“President Bukele continues to deepen the deterioration with the U.S. relationship, which is the trust, that trust, President Bukele is sinking with every snatch,” he said. lament Camps.
The analyst says that in addition to the above are the possible international sanctions to which he is exposed in El Salvador after learning of the latest Human Rights Practices Report 2020 released by the State Department last Tuesday, as in he mentions several Bukele government officials to point out that there are “serious acts of corruption” in the administration of the current Executive, which Congresswoman Torres has also been pointing out.
For his part, Humberto Sáenz, president of Citizen Action, explained that Bukele has no right to get involved in the politics of a foreign country, given the fact of asking even Latino citizens residing in California to not to vote for Congresswoman Torres.
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“I do not think that relations between El Salvador and the United States are going through the best of times, such reactions do not help to rescue this situation, since Biden assumed the relationship changed substantially and not to improve,” said Sáenz .
He agreed with Camps that Congresswoman Torres has a lot of influence and influence in decisions regarding Central American countries, so attitudes like Bukele’s recent ones can affect any help that comes from the U.S.
Congresswoman Torres, of Guatemalan origin, has been very critical of the Bukele governments in El Salvador; Alejandro Giammattei, in his native Guatemala; and Juan Orlando Hernández, in Honduras. This, as he considers 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 territory in the United States.