One critic said the Salvadoran president “wants to silence” the acclaimed digital news site El Faro “because they’re shattering the myths of the Bukele administration.”
An internationally acclaimed digital news outlet in El Salvador said Monday that the administration of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is preparing to arrest a number of its journalists following the publication of an interview with two former gang leaders who shed new light on a power-sharing agreement with the U.S.-backed leader and self-described “world’s coolest dictator.”
“A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro,” the outlet reported. “The source reached out following the publication of an interview with two former leaders of the 18th Street Revolucionarios on Bukele’s yearslong relationship to gangs.”
“If carried out, the warrants are the first time in decades that prosecutors seek to press charges against individual journalists for their journalistic labors,” El Faro added.
This isn’t irony, this is complicity and corruption. Trump clearly gave Bukele the visit and public press conference as a reward for holding those prisoners no questions asked. The prisoners also not being able to testify against Bukele is a feature to Trump and Bukele, not a bug.