In her letter, Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres referred to the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. He said that in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele “uses his influence to discredit legitimate democratic processes and institutions.”
Democratic Congresswoman Norma Torres, of Guatemalan descent, called on the Joe Biden government to “severely” restrict financial aid to the governments of Central American countries in which she noted “corruption” and “bad government.”
“I implore them to resist sending money directly into the hands of corrupt officials,” the legislator said in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan , dated Wednesday, March 24, 2021.
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“Our foreign assistance should go to civil society, non-governmental organizations, multilateral institutions and other credible institutions that have a proven track record of helping vulnerable people and communities,” he said in the writ.
In his letter, Torres referred to the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. He said that in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele “uses his influence to discredit legitimate democratic processes and institutions.”
Torres points out that the aid that the United States allocates must reach directly to those who need it in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras and not to governments or their corrupt civil servants.
In Guatemala, he said the military used U.S. security assistance to intimidate the U.S. embassy itself.
“U.S. taxes should not be wasted on corrupt public officials as long as the people of #CentralAmerica continue to suffer,” he added on Twitter.
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He also cited court proceedings in federal courts in New York, according to which Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez “protected drug traffickers while bragging about bringing drugs to the United States.”
Recently, Torres also attributed the rise in unaccompanied minors and irregular migrants to “corrupt and failed” governments of the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America, a subregion that includes Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
It is not the first time that Torres, a member of the Subcommittee on State Assignments and Foreign Operations of the House of Representatives, has sought to help US aid those in need in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras most undocumented migrants increasingly reach the southern border of the United States.
In the omnibus funding bill for 2020, Torres secured funding for the fight against corruption in these three countries, as well as the identification of corrupt officials and the elimination of military funding.
Torres, of the Democratic Party, questioned the management of former Republican President Donald Trump, to allow for “rampant” corruption in the so-called North American North Triangle.
Bukele, who came to the presidency in 2019, has been singled out by different sectors of the international community for his authoritarianism and lack of transparency in his administration.
Recently, Jim McGovern, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, said he was concerned about the “authoritarian path that the government of El Salvador is following” and identified serious dangers to the rule of law.
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McGovern has been a critical ferry of the abuses of power that the Salvadoran president has demonstrated at different times such as the military takeover of the Legislative Assembly in February 2020 or the weakening of institutions and human rights.
Last February, 15 U.S. congressmen also expressed their “deep concern over political violence, intimidation and corruption in El Salvador.”
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Letter from Congresswoman Norma Torres. Image of an illustrative and non-commercial nature /https://twitter.com/NormaJTorres/status/1375216616644878338