From Bad to Worse: Nayib Bukele’s Split with Washington
El Salvador’s leader seems to be doubling down on his confrontation with Biden, although he faces numerous challenges ahead.
Even if you see the crash coming, you can still feel shocked when it happens. On Dec. 8, in the lead up to the U.S. Summit of Democracies – to which El Salvador was not invited – the U.S. Treasury Department placed two senior Salvadoran officials very close to President Nayib Bukele on its Magnitsky Act corruption sanctions list, eliminating their access to the U.S. financial system. Treasury claimed that El Salvador's Vice Minister of Justice and Public Security Osiris Luna Meza and the chairman of its Social Fabric Reconstruction Unit, Carlos Marroquín Chica, had met repeatedly in...
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