The president of El Salvador took to Twitter over the weekend to warn US taxpayers that the US government was using their tax money to fund communist movements in El Salvador against the democratically-elected government there.
US taxpayers should know that their government is using their money to fund communist movements against a democratic elected (and with a 90% approval rating) government in El Salvador.
It’s not working though ?
The people of El Salvador won’t go back to that terrible past. pic.twitter.com/xPa3YA9xdO
— Nayib Bukele ?? (@nayibbukele) December 12, 2021
“US taxpayers should know that their government is using their money to fund communist movements against a democratic elected (and with a 90% approval rating) government in El Salvador,” said Nayib Bukeleo, president of El Salvador on Twitter.
“It’s not working though,” he added.
Last week the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was imposing sanctions on members of the Bukeleo administration. The Treasury Department claimed Bukeleo had negotiated an agreement with local narcotics dealers to help bring down the number of homicides in the nation—one of the key promises of the Bukeleo presidency—in return for protection of the administration.
“In addition to financial benefits for the gang members,” U.S. News reported, “incarcerated leaders received special treatment in the prisons, including access to mobile phones and prostitutes.”
The fracas between the US and El Salvador comes with a particular delicate time as Chinese imperialism targets developing nations in a bid to spread its influence to the Western hemisphere.
Nearby Nicaragua recently rejected its historic allegiance to free Taiwan and pledged allyship to Red China after the Biden administration unsuccessfully intervened in the domestic politics of the country.
“China and Nicaragua re-established diplomatic ties on Friday after the Central American country broke relations with Chinese-claimed Taiwan, boosting Beijing in a part of the world long considered the United States’ backyard, and angering Washington,” said Reuters.
Bukeleo said that Biden administration is upset because they made demands of him to prosecute some Salvadoran politicians, investigate others and pull support from some elected officials, including the country’s attorney general, none of which he agreed to do.
“It’s quite remarkable the United States would treat an ally, a partner in this fashion,” said Tom Shannon, a lobbyist for the El Salvadoran government in Washington who was previously a former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs according to the L.A. Times.
