RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The director of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, Carlos Dada, denounced on Wednesday that government agents of the Central American country notified the newspaper editor, Mexican journalist Daniel Lizárraga, that he must leave the country.
Dada said that on Tuesday, “agents of the Salvadoran government” showed up at Lizárraga’s home to “notify him that he has five days to leave El Salvador and that his work permit and temporary residency has been denied because he has not been able to prove that he is a journalist”.
“We consider it, without a doubt, one more form of harassment and attack against us (El Faro), and one more attempt to weaken us,” denounced Dada in an online transmission with Casa América Catalunya, which awarded the media outlet the Antoni Traveria Award for Freedom of Expression.