2024-08-26 06:39:36
The President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, stressed that freedom of expression is guaranteed in El Salvador. “You will not be arrested, censored or have your property confiscated for exercising your right to freedom of expression,” he said.
These statements come after the Salvadoran president exposed a fake news story published by the digital newspaper “El Faro,” financed by George Soros, about an “investigation” of an alleged case of corruption, committed in 2020, in which they showed false “evidence,” which has two serious errors that contradict each other.
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 two serious errors in the bill are the date of Francisco Flores’ government and the logo of Mauricio Funes’ government. 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.”
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.