El Salvador prepares to arrest El Faro journalists, report | Protos
Carlos Dada, the director of El Faro, a newspaper in El Salvador that has published investigations into the Nayib Bukele administration, has claimed that it has “received reliable information that the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office is preparing arrest warrants for El Faro journalists.” El Faro had recently published a new series of videos reiterating and expanding reporting on Bukele’s negotiations with Salvadoran gangs, something that Bukele has been denying for multiple years. The United States Treasury had reinforced the accusations of Bukele’s administration negotiating with gangs when it sanctioned officials from Bukele’s administration, alleging that the administration “provided financial incentives to Salvadoran gangs MS-13 and 18th Street Gang (Barrio 18) to ensure that incidents of gang violence and the number of confirmed homicides remained low.” “We have received reliable information that the Salvadoran...