There is no other option, explained foreign policy specialist Napoleon Camps. He says if Bukele continues to deepen “rule of law violations,” there will be very severe sanctions from the U.S.
For foreign policy expert Napoleon Camps, there is no doubt. He points out that the announcement by US Congresswoman Norma Torres to publish this week the list of corrupt Central Americans means another bell of alert on what the government of President Nayib Bukele is exposing in terms of sanctions severe on the part of the United States, if it continues to deepen violations of human rights and the rule of law.
“Here President Bukele has no option B, there is only option A and the option is to rectify. This is a very serious call for attention for President Bukele to rectify, he has no option B, only an option called rectification democratic, “Camps said.
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Torres, congressman of the state of California, announced through an official statement that this week the list of corrupt in the region will be published. The warning comes after the official was attacked by Bukele on Twitter, following Torres’ criticism of immigration policies driven by Central American governments.
According to Camps, the US State Departments are responding with this report to the congressmen who requested it from US President Joe Biden on January 25.
And it may also happen that Torres’ announcement falls within the possibilities of integrating both the sanctions provided by the “Magnitsky Global Law” with the Engel list contained in the “Omnibus Bill” of December 26, 2020.
The Magnitsky Global Act, passed in the United States in 2012, prosecutes foreigners accused of corruption and human rights violations and authorizes governments to punish violators, by freezing foreign assets, also prohibits those sanctioned from entering the signatory country. .
In Camps’ opinion, these sanctions do not arise overnight, for the case of El Salvador they are directly related to the gradual democratic deterioration that the country has had since the military incursion of February 9, 2020 the Legislative Assembly . He adds that they are “the product of years of endemic corruption” that the Nation has suffered.
According to Camps, the application of the Magnitsky Global Law would be a milestone in the history of El Salvador and, in his view, implies a major turn in the relations of Central America with the United States, especially of El Salvador with the American country.
“This rudder must lead us to democratic rectification, it would be the worst that would lead us to a sharpening of sanctions, because the United States, the European Union and Canada have also been applied in the past to tyrants, despots and autocrats higher level sanctions, economic sanctions, then it would be the worst, because the loser is the country and here those responsible for this are those called to rectify, “said Camps.
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The expert presumes that with the Human Rights Practices 2020 report, issued last Tuesday by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and in which Bukele government officials and allies are mentioned, it can be intuited that sanctions could be also aimed at government institutions.
“Members of his cabinet are already appearing as stakeholders in last week’s State Department’s Human Rights report. This makes us think, to those we know of these cases, that being mentioned and highlighted individuals such as Walter Araujo, mentioned in the report, such as the Minister of Finance, Alejandro Zelaya and other members of the Cabinet of President, is mentioned the director of the PNC, the Minister of Defense and the same president of the Republic, because they point out the events of February 9, where the Armed Forces and the PNC are instrumentalized to intervene in the Legislative Assembly, “said Camps.