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President Bukele denies asking to meet with Biden officials

2021-02-13T03:04:22.215Z


El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, denied that he had gone to the United States to request meetings with officials from the Biden administration.


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(CNN Spanish) ––

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, denied this Thursday that he had gone to the United States to request meetings with officials from the administration of his counterpart Joe Biden and that these have been rejected, as states a report from the AP agency.

"It is a total lie," Bukele told the diplomatic corps accredited in El Salvador, which met at the Presidential House.

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"They are entering, they have many things to do and I, no, we are not for that right now," added the Salvadoran president.

The news about the supposed decision of the new US government to reject Bukele's request for a hearing caused different reactions.

Bukele, things have changed.

As popular as you are in El Salvador, Washington will not turn a blind eye to your abuses, ”José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, tweeted Monday.

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The president of El Salvador maintained a close relationship with the administration of former President Donald Trump, whom he considered "nice and cool" during a meeting held in September 2019 in New York.

  • Joe Biden's government suspends Trump-era immigration agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

At the end of December 2020, when Trump's term was nearing the end, the governments of El Salvador and the US launched the Asylum Cooperation Agreement (ACA).

This measure allowed asylum seekers to be sent to El Salvador to wait there for the time it took for the US authorities to study and respond to the request.

Something that was interpreted as El Salvador's collaboration with Trump's hard line of immigration.

The Biden administration suspended that agreement, which was also in force with Guatemala and Honduras.

Bukele, concerned about impeachment request

This Thursday, President Nayib Bukele also expressed his concern before the diplomatic corps about the request made by a deputy of the opposition Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena) to evaluate his mental health, protected in article 131, numeral 20 of the Constitution of El Savior.

That article says that, in order to declare the inability of the president to continue exercising his functions, the Chamber of Deputies must obtain at least 56 of the 84 votes.

Article 131 is made for a mental disability.

Not to remove the president because the elections are coming, "Bukele told the ambassadors.

These, for their part, thanked the meeting to learn their version of what happened.

The petition must be studied by the Political Commission, made up mostly of opposition deputies.

Although, several legislators have already advanced that they will not support an initiative like that.

«The plan has already been deactivated, but the people deactivated it, because it was pronounced on social networks.

Thank God they did not take to the streets, "Bukele said during the meeting with diplomats.

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Source: cnnespanol

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