This, although several sources indicate that in Washington, the government closed its doors.
In his time as President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele has had a turbulent relationship with critical and independent media, whom he has accused of lying when they publish unfavorable reports for his government.
On Thursday afternoon, however, the president extended his attempts to disqualify newspaper reports and accused journalist Joshua Goodman of the international Associated Press (AP) of lying.
“We can’t trust the international media. For example AP said I had gone to the United States to ask for a meeting with President Biden and they denied it to me. That’s a lie, here’s the head of missions in the United States and it can corroborate that, ”the president said at a meeting with the country’s accredited diplomatic corps.
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Earlier in the week, Goodman realized how Bukele sought meetings in Washington DC with Biden administration officials and these were rejected. According to the report published in AP and reprinted by multiple media inside and outside the United States, sources close to the new US government declined to meet with Bukele for his apparent anti-democratic behavior and also to prevent him from making an electoral use of the meetings.
Sources in Washington DC of Today’s Newspaper, with first-hand knowledge of the Biden administration, confirmed information similar to that published by AP.
This hit Bukele, who tried to present himself as a friend of Washington, but the abuses of power are generating harsh condemnations in a United States that has changed a lot since Trump came out of power.
That’s why he tried to discredit the AP report from the start. One of its closest officials, CEPA President Federico Anliker, even hinted that the Washington Post, which resumed the note, had dealings with one of El Salvador’s main opposition leaders.
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Despite his attempts to disqualify this report and deny that it was not received by the Biden administration in Washington, Democratic party sources support his initial version and claim that the Salvadoran president is lying.
“The advantaged student”
Maurici Alarcón-Salvador is an Ecuadorian lawyer and defender of press freedom in his country and region. Whenever Bukele discredits the national press, he reiterates that his style is very similar to that of former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, an enemy of the media when he ruled this South American country.
Faced with this disqualification of the AP and the international press, Alarcón-Salvador recalls that in his country, the then president and now fugitive Correa “was an expert not only in discrediting the national press but also internationally.
He frequently articulated conspiracy theories, saying that the international press obeyed orders from outside governments to destabilize his government. “
The lawyer explains that he called some media hypocrites and liars. That’s why he adds that “this student you have in El Salvador (Bukele) is surpassed.”
In fact, Correa recently tweeted celebrating Bukele’s treatment of the independent media in El Salvador, which he constantly disqualifies and those who have been harassed by officials and fans, and has even used the power of the ‘State to intimidate them.