The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has responded to the US State Department’s accusations of alleged electoral interference by high-ranking Salvadoran officials with a mocking tweet in which he shares one of the pieces of information published in recent days.
«The US State Department says that WE are trying to interfere in THEIR elections,» he said, and then included the onomatopoeia associated with laughter.
Washington has denounced the «unacceptable» interference of several leaders of El Salvador in the elections held this month, after there were statements against some congressional candidates of Central American origin.
This is the case of the Democratic representative Norma Torres, born in Guatemala, and the target of criticism of, among others, Bukele himself, who last year asked the Latino community in the United States through Twitter not to vote for her. «She does not work for you, but to keep our countries in underdevelopment,» he wrote.
Along the same lines, Christian Guevara, deputy of the ruling Nueva Ideas party, expressed himself on the eve of the elections, who in the same social network asked the Latin diaspora not to vote for Norma Torres because of the alleged «damage» she would have caused to El Salvador.
In the message celebrating her reelection to the House of Representatives for the 35th district of California, Torres criticized her Republican rival for accepting «the scandalous endorsement» of Bukele, whom she accused of violating human rights and promoting hatred, racism and division against indigenous communities.
At the same time, he showed his «disappointment» with the U.S. judicial system for failing to address foreign interference in those elections. «Many of the attacks on networks were orchestrated in El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele (…) This type of blatant manipulation of our electoral politics demands a strong response from the Federal Government», he claimed.
