The Salvadoran president has not yet announced whether he will have a meeting with Ricardo Zúñiga during his visit to El Salvador. The special envoy is in Guatemala this Tuesday.
In a publication made by the News Agency “The Voice of America”, it was announced that the special envoy for the US Northern Triangle, Ricardo Zúñiga, will meet “with President Nayib Bukele, with Public Security authorities and will pay a visit to the Care Center for returnees from the border with Mexico and returnees by air from the United States. “
However, Bukele has not yet confirmed whether he will hold meetings with the US official on his arrival in El Salvador in the coming days, nor has he detailed the agenda to follow.
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The only one who has spoken in this regard is the Presidential Commissioner, Carolina Recinos, who said that “we are very willing to work with any initiative that comes to collaborate and that comes to assist in an issue already long-standing as is the issue of migration, “the commissioner said.
While El Salvador’s ambassador to the United States, Milena Mayorga, also posted and then deleted a tweet stating that Zúñiga would meet directly with Bukele, detailing the agenda the special envoy would have in his arrival in El Salvador.
Also, Mayorga explained on his Twitter account that the country is making efforts in different areas of investment and economic projection to prevent people from emigrating from El Salvador. He noted that embassies and consulates are working “actively on attracting foreign investment” and other tourism projects being carried out by the government such as Surf City and tariff incentives to attract tourism investment.
“These and other efforts continue to generate more opportunities for Salvadorans not to leave the country, as well, to attract investments that drive development poles and allow us to be a world-class tourist destination,” Mayorga posted on his Twitter.
Zúñiga’s visit was announced by the US State Department two days ago, who arrive in El Salvador after also visiting Guatemala, where he has had private meetings with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei.
Zúñiga’s mission is to address “the root causes of migration and irregular migration to, from, and through the region, and humanitarian efforts to expand access to protection for the most needy.”
According to the official statement, Zúñiga plans to talk to “stakeholders about our broad and united efforts to address the root causes of migration and irregular migration.” No mention is made of who will hold these meetings.
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However, for foreign policy analysts like Napoleon Camps, the idea of the State Department is to listen to other actors for the loss of “confidence” that President Joe Biden’s government has with the Salvadoran government.
He adds that Biden is more interested in knowing how El Salvador is fighting corruption, drug trafficking and respecting the rule of law, the Constitution of the Republic and institutionalization.
California Congresswoman Norma Torres recently expressed that the United States does not want to invest more money in governments that have not fulfilled their responsibility to curb corruption, this caused Bukele to react against Torres.