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.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) In the narrow, gang-controlled alleys of the Las Palmas neighborhood, struggling Salvadorans are untroubled by actions of their president that so infuriate his critics.
They are not bothered by Nayib Bukele’s dictatorial maneuvers sending armed troops into congress to coerce a vote, or ousting independent judges from the country’s highest court, paving the way to control all branches of government. They praise his relentless attacks on the politicians who governed El Salvador for nearly 30 years before him, and the elites who benefited from their rule.
In this neighborhood they are grateful for the boxes of food staples they’ve received from Bukele’s government during the pandemic. Adults proudly pat their shoulders and say they got both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine long before most other people in Central America.
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FILE - In this June 1, 2021 file photo, El Salvador s President Nayib Bukele waves during his annual address to the nation to congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Bukele s presidency so far is the story of one of Latin America s newest populist autocracies in the making: spending big to hand out goodies, branding opponents as enemies, raising the profile of the military.(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
SAN SALVADOR – In the narrow, gang-controlled alleys of the Las Palmas neighborhood, struggling Salvadorans are untroubled by actions of their president that so infuriate his critics.