2024-08-23 11:51:03
The President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, exposed to the digital newspaper “El Faro”, financed by George Soros, in which they published an “investigation” of an alleged case of corruption, committed in 2020 in which they showed false “evidence”, which has two serious errors and which contradict each other.
“I rarely comment on the fake news in this pamphlet from Open Society (Soros), but in this case they went too far with their shamelessness,” the president said.
The newspaper showed as “proof” an invoice that shows the date of the year 2000 and that also has the logo of the Mauricio Funes government, which began in 2009 and ended in 2014 (9 years after the date of the invoice and 6 years before the alleged corruption case).
“The alleged proof has two serious errors that even contradict each other (the date of Francisco Flores’ government and the logo of Mauricio Funes’ government),” explained the Head of State, stating that “they are lying shamelessly or they are incompetent and do not review what they publish… or both.”
To make matters worse, the newspaper’s own readers pointed out the error, and instead of acknowledging it or trying to give some explanation, they manipulated the image they themselves had uploaded so that today’s date would fit with their “investigation.”
“They uploaded the second image, clearly manipulated, from the same account where they had uploaded the first one with the date and logo that did not match,” he added.
Bukele pointed out that manipulating the date on an invoice, for whatever reason, incurs in ideological falsehood, referring to the case of the former deputy of Nuevas Ideas, Erick García, who was stripped of immunity, arrested and is still in prison for committing the same crime.
“If someone were to apply the same law that is applied to our public officials, they would shout from the rooftops that there is no ‘freedom of the press’ in El Salvador, and there would be no shortage of international and NGO condemnation,” he said.
“Meanwhile, they sell the image that there is no freedom of the press in El Salvador and that officials are protected by the government, when clearly the opposite is true: officials are severely punished and these so-called “journalists” are allowed to commit all kinds of crimes,” he said.
“But ask them what they think about this and they will continue to shout from the rooftops the exact opposite, presenting themselves as “politically persecuted”, when they commit crimes in front of the entire population and no one has ever prosecuted them. Crimes for which ordinary citizens and public officials, even from the ruling party, are prosecuted,” he concluded.