2024-07-21 18:11:42
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele met with four Republican U.S. congressmen in San Salvador on Friday night, a day after Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president of the United States, accused El Salvador of sending “assassins” to his country.
“At the House,” President Bukele wrote in English on his account on social network X when sharing a video of the arrival at the Presidential House of Congressmen Matt Gaetz (Florida), Andy Biggs (Arizona), Dan Bishop (North Carolina) and Alex Mooney (West Virginia).
Bukele did not specify the topics he discussed with the Republican congressmen, whose visit took place after Donald Trump had assured, on Thursday, that crime is falling in Venezuela and El Salvador, but not because of the actions of their rulers, but because they are sending criminals to the United States.
In a strong speech against irregular migration, Trump assured the Republican National Convention that in El Salvador – where President Nayib Bukele is waging a war against gangs – and in Venezuela, crime is declining “because they are sending their murderers to the United States of America.”
Bukele has not yet openly addressed these claims.
During Trump’s first presidency (2017-2021), the Salvadoran president maintained a close relationship with the US government, not as distant as the one he has maintained with the Joe Biden administration.
