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Bukele to the United States: "Our independence is not for sale"
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, revealed on Wednesday that he held a private meeting with Brendan O'Brien, the new chargé d'affaires of the United States, to whom he stressed that he is not going to sell the sovereignty of his country to Washington.
“I offered all the necessary support to combat drug trafficking and organized crime and work to reduce the rates of forced migration. But I reminded him that our independence is not for sale,” Bukele tweeted.
With the departure of Manes, who was the United States ambassador to El Salvador since 2015, Bukele received a request for a meeting from O'Brien to whom she told that El Salvador is still interested in repairing the relationship and that it is willing to cooperate.
On the social network Twitter, Manes made a series of public complaints regarding Bukele, which he categorically rejected and later cut off communication with the US embassy, for which Washington decided to withdraw the diplomat.
Bukele said that he had proposed to Manes that he request before the Supreme Court of Justice the extradition of Blue, head of a criminal gang, to the United States and that the representative expressed that this depended on the Department of Justice, not on her or the Department of State.
Bukele's relations with the government of Donald Trump were positive, as was the harmony and communication between the Salvadoran Executive and the former Ambassador Johnson, however, ties began to weaken when Democrat Joe Biden took office last January.
