President Nayib Bukele was elected in a 2019 landslide and has frequently sparred with the Biden administration on social media on a variety of topics, such as immigration and crime.
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- Around the same time, the U.S. Treasury accused Bukele of bribing street gang members to stop killing each other so his crime rate would go down, according to news reports. He called this a lie on Twitter.
- Then, on Dec. 12, Bukele tweeted: “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.”
- Bukele then posted several private text messages that appeared to be from a U.S. Southern Command official, asking him to release a Salvadoran prisoner with an ankle bracelet. Bukele refused, saying that technology is not secure in his country.
- “False accusations? Is it false that Jean Manes asked me to release Neto Muyshondt (captured in video giving tens of thousands of US dollars to gang members)?” Bukele tweeted.
- Tensions even spilled over in person earlier in the year when Biden refused to meet Bukele, who was on an unannounced U.S. trip. The snub was reciprocated when an American official visited El Salvador.
SOURCE: WASHINGTONEXAMINER
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