El jefe de fracción y diputado de Nuevas Ideas, Christian Guevara y el vicepresidente de la República, Félix Ulloa, se reunieron con 10 pastores evangélicos para hablar sobre la prohibición de derechos reproductivos a mujeres en El Salvador.
En la foto divulgada por el
Todas nuestras tropas han jurado lealtad al Presidente de la República y Comandante General de las Fuerzas Armadas y estaremos siempre atentos a sus órdenes.
I don't understand the El Salvador quarantine strategy. Travelers arriving from abroad are forced together in a large group for 30 days. If only one of the hundreds of people carried the virus, isn't it inevitable at the end of 30 days most will have it?
Vaccinations for COVID-19 in El Salvador now open to persons of any nationality, and down to age 6. Booster (3rd dose) shots available 4 months after first round of shots.
Habilitamos la vacunación contra el
#COVID19
para extranjeros.
El único requisito es hacer la cita con un documento (pasaporte o cualquier documento de identificación de otro país).
Aplica para todas las personas que vivan con estatus irregular en nuestro país y para turistas.
And then there is the head of Nuevas Ideas in the Legislative Assembly who clearly did not read the Time Magazine description of why Bukele is influential before he retweeted it.
Nayib Bukele cancelled his appearance at a Bitcoin conference in Miami this week. This comes as his "Volcano Bond" offering appears to be indefinitely on hold and the country's purchases of Bitcoin for its own account have more than $7.6 million in unrealized losses.
Not sure if this is a measure of the effectiveness of marches in San Salvador today, but
@NayibBukele
tweeted or retweeted about them 41 separate times starting this morning.
Nayib Bukele, in an awful tweet when no details are yet available said "it appears that the moribund parties have put in motion their ultimate plan. What desperation to not lose their privileges and corruption. I thought they could not fall lower, but they fell."
Parece que los partidos moribundos han puesto en marcha su último plan.
Qué desesperación por no perder sus privilegios y su corrupción.
Pensé que no podían caer más bajo, pero cayeron.
Where is
@NayibBukele
? I just went through the Twitter feed of
@ComunicacionSV
back to April 11 and there was not a single photo of Bukele. We know he is tweeting, but from where?
I am not an expert, but if someone in truck was firing shots, trained police bodyguards do not emerge from their car and walk without cover towards the shooter.
El Faro tonight publishes a story revealing much about the bloody weekend of murders at the end of March, the government negotiator with the gangs, the release of a top gang leader, and a split among high govt officials on response to the March murders.
@_elfaro_
"No podemos confiar en los medios internacionales. Por ejemplo
@AP
dijo que había ido a Estados Unidos a pedir una reunión con el Presidente Biden y que me la negaron. Eso es mentira, aquí está el jefe de misiones de Estados Unidos y lo puede corroborar", Presidente
@nayibbukele
.
Marco Rubio has become total Bukele apologist. Biden admin has not imposed a single sanction against Bukele regime for the war on gangs (although maybe it should) - sanctions have been for corruptly dealing with gangs, subverting democracy, and stealing from Salvadoran public
I just returned from
#ElSalvador
where government officials are been sanctioned by the Biden Administration for rounding up gangs that have extorted,mutilated and murdered people for decades
If you are in El Salvador reading about FTX, realize that Chivo is also a form of unregulated exchange. It holds Salvadoran citizens' funds, exchanges back and forth with Bitcoin balances, and you have zero transparency on what is actually held behind your balance shown in Chivo
Bukele announces he will be candidate for re-election as president in 2024. Something all would have said was unconstitutional until he replaced all the supreme court judges.
💸 ¡Centroamérica presente! De acuerdo a KPMG, Costa Rica, Panamá y Honduras figuran entre los 10 países de Latinoamérica más atractivos para hacer negocios.
Conozca más:
When someone says "why don't you write about the good things Bukele is doing?" My response is he has a great publicity machine that needs no help from me.
If you assume Bukele has not sold any BTC that El Salvador purchased, with price at 10:40PM tonight, of 1 BTC = $47,172, then the approximate accumulated loss on El Salvador's BTC portfolio is now $5.68 million.
Yesterday was the 1 year anniversary of Bitcoin becoming legal tender in El Salvador and the launch of Chivo. How things have changed! Not a single tweet about the anniversary from Bukele, Ernesto Castro, Christian Guevara, Alejandro Zelaya or
@chivowallet
Dear Mr. President Bukele. Can you provide the proof of this, because I am very skeptical. After all, you have a conflict of interest because you need to the price of BTC to go back up to cover your losses.
2.1 million Salvadorans are ACTIVELY USING
@chivowallet
(not downloads).
Chivo is not a bank, but in less than 3 weeks, it now has more users than any bank in El Salvador and is moving fast to have more users that ALL BANKS IN EL SALVADOR combined.
This is wild!
#Bitcoin
🇸🇻
#Ahora
| Gabinete de Salud Ampliado se encuentra en este momento brinda en el Aeropuerto Internacional San Óscar Arnulfo Romero conferencia de prensa sobre la situación del
#Coronavirus
.
Vía
@SecPrensaSV
The government publicity machine in El Salvador tweeted lots of photos of boxes of vaccine. They had tracking numbers which showed they arrived February 3.
#VacunaGateSV
Pres.
@nayibbukele
tweeted this chart yesterday to show a rebound in price of El Salvador bonds with a 2052 maturity date. But he started his graph at the low point AFTER May 1 and firing of judges and FGR. Before May 1 value higher than it is today.
Ayer
@Reuters
anunciaba que nuestros bonos se habían disparado luego de llamadas de nuestro equipo económico con 97 inversionistas, llegando al 109% de su valor nominal.
Pero hoy, nuestro equipo habló con 73 inversionistas más, llegando al 110.65% de su valor nominal 🇸🇻👊🏻
1 No soy periodista de AP
2 No estoy de acuerdo con Aponte sobre TPS y remesas. Pero estoy de acuerdo en que Estados Unidos puede usar la Lista de Engel, puede influir en préstamos internacionales, puede cancelar visas de líderes de NI
3 Estado de derecho esta en peligro en ES.
"A government which fails to honor the current constitution, has lost the moral authority to propose amendments to that document, no matter how modern and progressive those amendments might be."
How a Salvadoran government minister, prison chief Osiris Luna, sold more than $1 million in emergency COVID food relief on the black market. via
@_ElFaro_
Political violence erupts in San Salvador -- My summary of tonight's events as a shooting at an FMLN rally brings election violence back to El Salvador and many are blaming the rhetoric of the president as an inciting factor.
In El Salvador, there is now almost no promotion of Bitcoin or Chivo app use. You Bitcoiners who read and tweet in English can talk about value of BTC as currency all you want, but Bukele’s government is not actually promoting it to the public, despite his laser eyes profile pic
A horrible side effect of the pandemic in El Salvador. Confined in their homes and not going to school, the number of pregnancies in girls aged 10-14 jumped 76%. The number of pregnancies in that age range should be ZERO.
From maximum security prison in El Salvador to Mexico, via luxury apartment in San Salvador, all documented by girlfriend on social media: Transnational Escape of MS-13 Leader via
@elfaroenglish
For US relations, Bukele is not going to impress the Biden administration with an interview with Tucker Carlson. (It would have worked with Trump). But Bukele’s basic point is right - a country is failing if large numbers of its citizens are fleeing poverty and violence.
2 days before an election, WHO sends out this message along w/ slick video [produced by Bukele team??]. Regardless of whether facts are accurate, nothing here that could not have waited until day after election. WHO allowed its good name to be used intentionally or negligently.
#ElSalvador
responded rapidly to the emergence of
#COVID19
, & in line with WHO advice stepped up preparedness of its health system in mid-January 2020. 🇸🇻 announced a national emergency on 30 January 2020, the same day that WHO declared a public health emergency of intl concern.
Tragedy in El Salvador. A mudslide caused by intense rains last night buried a community in municipality of Nejapa, northeast of San Salvador volcano. So far 6 bodies have been recovered and at least 35 missing. Dozens of homes destroyed.
Los equipos de rescate trabajan en la zona en busca de personas soterradas entre los escombros. El Ministro de la
@DefensaSV
,
@merino_monroy
, comanda las cuadrillas encargadas de esta misión.
This is bad. Persons lined up outside El Salvador govt office to attempt to get the $300 subsidy payment intended to offset the economic pain of stay at home order.
Civil society groups in El Salvador have called for more protest marches this morning against Bukele govt policies. Many reports on Twitter this morning of military and police checkpoints on routes into San Salvador.
🚨🚨🚨 Usan militares y policías para bloquear el paso a los Salvadoreños que viajan hacia San Salvador desde el interior del país
ASÍ LAS “NUEVAS IDEAS DE BUKELE”🤡🤡🤡
#ElDomingoMarchamos
es más fuerte que sus retenes y sus bloqueos✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Tod
@s
a la calle
#CualEsLaRuta
Dan Restrepo, former senior advisor to Obama on Latin America, makes clear that Bukele requested meetings with Biden administration and was denied. Flatly rejecting Bukele's statements to the diplomatic corps yesterday.
Bukele’s tweet to the “International Community”. Explaining actions to come??? He is ominously using military to put pressure on legislators to bend them to his will.
A la Comunidad Internacional:
El Salvador está dominado por los bandos de la guerra civil, esos dos bandos continúan con la corrupción y negocian con grupos crimínales. Hay videos de ellos negociando vidas a cambio de votos. El pueblo ya se cansó y el Presidente está con ellos.
El Salvador has NEVER ordered capture and jailing of military officers directly involved in massacre of El Mozote, but suddenly in election season orders selective capture of political figures from opposition as defendants for passing amnesty law in 1993, including Ruben Zamora.
The Salvadoran government has issued a capture order for Ruben Zamora and several other political figures (including Fredy Cristiani) for “human rights abuses.” Ruben is a historic leader of the democratic opposition and former ambassador to the US, the UN, and India.
When an INNOCENT family member is swept into the hellhole of Salvadoran prisons, WRONGLY ACCUSED of being a gang member, is the economic and emotional impact on that family that much different from the impact of having an innocent family member killed by gangs? - 1 of 3
I will write about the plan of
@NayibBukele
for CICIES later today, but it is highly troubling that his press office decided to bar reporters of El Faro and RevistaFactum, which have had the most important coverage of corruption in El Salvador, from the CICIES press conference
Honduras is on pace to have to have 2% of its total population apprehended crossing southern US border in just 12 months, Guatemala 1.5% and El Salvador 1%.
Enough from me talking about Bitcoin and El Salvador. That changed the subject for a while from Bukele abolishing CICIES, a commission backed by the OAS which was supposed to investigate corruption in the country.
Nayib Bukele of El Salvador attacks and ridicules journalists who investigate his administration. Serious concerns are being expressed in El Salvador and around the world but US stays on sideline--Nayib Bukele's war on quality investigative journalism
This tweet from Blinken shows how completely the US has reversed course on Bukele. US now saying El Salvador is “an important partner in advancing” human rights and good governance. Pardon me, but the Bukele regime is the direct opposite of that.
Met with Salvadoran Foreign Minister
@CancillerAleHT
about good governance, human rights, inclusive economic prosperity, and migration management in Central America. El Salvador remains an important partner in advancing these regional goals.
Today is the National Day of the Journalist in El Salvador and so I salute all those Salvadoran journalists who are doing their work to hold the powerful accountable despite being disparaged, threatened, spied on, and denied access to information.
President of El Salvador orders torture through use of solitary confinement on persons captured but not yet found guilty of crime by a court in violation of international human rights standards.
Se le ordena al Director de
@CentrosPenales
,
@OsirisLunaMeza
, enviar a los capturados por el secuestro del bus y las violaciones a 2 mujeres el día de ayer, al Penal de Máxima Seguridad y colocarlos en aislamiento total, hasta que sean llevados a juicio.
I'm connected with a group of election observers in dozens of municipalities. The vast majority report a normal day at the polls after some delays opening. Unfortunately Bukele and govt media continue to raise the spectre of fraud.
Updated spreadsheet on the one year anniversary of El Salvador's Bitcoin law, showing the unrealized losses to date on El Salvador's purchases of Bitcoin, according to Bukele's tweets. The value of Bitcoin today is lower than its value all the times Bukele "bought the dip"
Captures of 5 suspects in today's shooting have been announced. Just a word of caution: when there is a high profile crime and PNC captures suspects very quickly, it has often happened that those captured have nothing to do with the crime. Not saying that happened here, but...
In this post I summarize the first week under State of Exception gang crackdown -- more than 5000 arrested, cruel group punishment in prisons, judges intimidated, Bukele rejects human rights concerns, gang leaders free and not extradited.
After 3 this morning, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly passed a "state of exception" which suspends for 30 days constitutional rights of freedom of association, right to a legal defense, right to see a judge in 72 hours after arrest,
1-
US Sec'y of State Blinken called Bukele today expressing "grave concern" over sacking of 5 magistrates and attorney general Raul Melara who had been "fighting corruption and impunity."
With less than 2 months until Oscar Romero's canonization, ARENA and its presidential candidate Carlos Calleja celebrate the birthday of man who ordered Romero's assassination.
Interesting reporting which shows that the AstraZeneca vaccine may have arrived in El Salvador on February 3 and not yesterday. Could suggest that the government delayed a fancy rollout of the shots until closer to election day at the end of the month.
#VacunagateSV
Vacunas Covid-19 llegaron a El Salvador el 3 de febrero, según el tracking de aerolíneas. Nuestra colaboradora
@cecibelr
revela detalles de la ruta trazada de un envío y algunas de las interrogantes que surgen luego de las primeras horas de distribución. 🧵
El Salvador's Minister of Labor Rolando Castro announces he will now renounce his visa for travel to the US after being named on the Engel List -- except that visa was already automatically cancelled by the US when Castro was added to the list of corrupt officials.
Let's see: buy 8500 computers to help tally votes in El Salvador - that's sign that election fraud is coming. Procure 150,000 computers to deliver in helicopters and trucks covered with government logo in the week before an election -- is a sign of bridging the digital divide
Bukele's mega-prison CECOT is a distraction. It houses less than 15% of country's prisoners. Meanwhile persons not convicted of any crime suffer and die in rest of the country's prisons:
The Prisons of El Salvador's State of Exception (2nd in a series)
Migration outflow from El Salvador at highest level in 10 years. In 12 months ended Sept 30, almost 100,000 Salvadorans were apprehended at US border, seeking to join 1.4M Salvadoran born immigrants in US who sent $6.8B in remittances so far in 2021
The ChivoPets hospital according to Bukele is being built with "profits" from the governments Bitcoin trading. But with the value of BTC today, El Salvador has so far lost roughly $2.9 million on its portfolio of 1370 BTC. See chart
Just 1 month and 10 days after we started the construction of
@chivopets
.
Solo 1 mes con 10 días desde que pusimos la primera piedra de
@chivopets
.
#Bitcoin
is good for pets 🐶
From the vote counting for Legislative Assembly. At this JRV, there were only 137 voters, but 265 ballots in the ballot box. Just one example of irregularities being discovered, but little indication that TSE will act.
#Elecciones2024
| En la Junta Receptora de Votoss 8101, de San Vicente, se identificaron únicamente 137 votantes, pero se encontraron 265 papeletas marcadas. Foto: LPG/Gabriella Villaroel.
#ElSalvador
I believe that the allegations by US Treasury that in 2020 the Bukele government provided financial incentives to the gangs and cell phones and prostitutes to gang leaders in prison are something we have not heard before.
A Salvadoran war criminal located in the United States. Former Salvadoran Colonel Reyes Mena gave the order to ambush and kill 4 Dutch journalists in 1982 according to UN Truth Commission Report. In 2018 other Dutch journalists tracked him down and confronted him.
We are live from El Salvador. We just finished sitting down with President Bukele for our new Tucker Carlson Originals series coming soon to Fox Nation. There were also many newsworthy moments we’ll share tonight at 8pm ET on Fox News.
"No podemos confiar en los medios internacionales. Por ejemplo
@AP
dijo que había ido a Estados Unidos a pedir una reunión con el Presidente Biden y que me la negaron. Eso es mentira, aquí está el jefe de misiones de Estados Unidos y lo puede corroborar", Presidente
@nayibbukele
.
Tonight Nayib Bukele unveiled the first phase with 400 ICE beds in new hospital to care for COVID-19 patients in buildings formerly part of convention center and now form "Hospital El Salvador." New hospital comes as surge of cases threatens to overwhelm existing hospitals.
Nayib Bukele promises the Salvadoran public big projects like new international airport, a train, hospitals, a satellite, and $100M stadium and $50M library built by China. I look behind the PR blitz at the current status of all these public works.
It is very hard to imagine that the ballots being counted in this video were ever folded by a voter and deposited into the cardboard ballot boxes. Compare the ballot with clear fold marks against these smooth and flat ballots marked for NI candidates.
Aquí les muestro cómo se ve una papeleta que sí presenta detalles que el elector llegó a la urna y expresó su voluntad VS otra que parece recién salida de la imprenta 👇
Does anyone else see the incoherence of El Salvador government claiming it's advocating hard for extension of TPS on same day Bukele is doing a whole show with the white nationalist Tucker Carlson?
#EnTv
| "Este Gobierno está realizando acciones concretas para ver el tema del TPS. Les pido a los salvadoreños en el exterior que confíen, porque ya estamos trabajando en las acciones pertinentes", diputado presidente,
@ECastroES
.
This morning the US added the 5 acting magistrates of El Salvador's Constitutional Chamber to the Engel List of corrupt actors. These 5 were installed by the Bukele regime on May 1 after the abrupt purging of the existing magistrates of the chamber.
Nayib Bukele won the presidency of El Salvador promising to fight corruption. Today when a US special envoy arrived to talk about strengthening that fight, Bukele declined to meet with him. A summary of today's visit:
Bukele's rocky relationship with US
Nayib Bukele's bad press -- a collection of the articles in the past week from the international press raising concerns about Bukele's approach to governing.
Nos preocupan las reformas a la Ley de la Carrera Judicial y Fiscalía. Un sistema judicial independiente y la separación de poderes son vitales para la democracia. 1/2
Profile of
@ClaudiaOrtizSV
-- as the most prominent voice of the opposition in a Legislative Assembly dominated by Nuevas Ideas.
The Lonely Life of El Salvador’s Opposition
Every Salvadoran politician will take the opportunity to do branding on pandemic response. The mayor of San Salvador slapping his name on disinfectant sprayers for example.
El Salvador is conducting an experiment this week to see if masks alone outdoors with zero social distancing involving thousands of chanting soccer fans, political rallies, and queues for relief packages result in a new surge of COVID-19 cases.
On the 30th anniversary of the Peace Accords, military and police checkpoints on major routes into El Salvador appear designed to prevent persons from arriving at protest marches against Bukele regime to take place this morning.
#COVID19
| El secretario jurídico de la
@PresidenciaSV
,
@CONANCASTRO2
, anunció esta noche que el presidente
@nayibbukele
prolonga por decreto ejecutivo la ley de estado emergencia, contenida en el decreto legislativo 593, por 30 días más, a partir de las 00:00 del 17 de mayo.
Good news for the faithful in El Salvador. The Vatican could soon announce the beatification of Rutilio Grande, the martyred Jesuit priest and friend of St. Oscar Romero
Photos spreading of people lining up across El Salvador to sign the petitions for Nayib Bukele's Nuevas Ideas to become a political party. Bukele wants to collect 200,000 signatures in 3 days.
"Bukele believes that he and his team should be the only persons managing this crisis. He wants the Legislative Assembly to authorize and ratify his decisions, not to participate in them." -- The ongoing health crisis and the conflict of power