No prisons or censorship in El Salvador, says President Nayeb Bukele – Diario La Pagina

President Nayeb Bukele highlighted that freedom of expression is guaranteed in El Salvador. “You will not be arrested, censured or have your property confiscated for exercising your right to freedom of expression,” he promised.

The reports come after the Salvadoran president exposed a false news article published by the George Soros-funded digital newspaper “El Faro” about an “investigation” into a 2020 corruption case. ”The proof contains two grave errors which contradict each other.

The newspaper showed as “proof” an invoice dated 2000 and bearing the logo of the Mauricio Funes government, which began in 2009 and ended in 2014 (9 years after the date of the invoice and 6 years before the alleged corruption case).

Two serious errors in the invoice are the date of the government of Francisco Flores and the logo of the government of Mauricio Funes. To make matters worse, the newspaper readers themselves made them see the error, instead of trying to identify or explain it, they manipulated the image they uploaded so that today's date would fit their “investigation”.

Bukkel pointed out that manipulating the date on an invoice for any reason would constitute conceptual falsification, and a former Nueva Ideas deputy, Eric Garcia, was arrested and is in prison for the same crime. .

“If someone applies the same law to them as is applied to our public officials, they will shout from the rooftops that there is no “freedom of the press” in El Salvador, and there will be no shortage of condemnations from international and NGO organizations,” he said.

“Meanwhile, they sell the image that there is no freedom of the press in El Salvador and that the authorities are protected by the government, when clearly the opposite is happening: the authorities are severely punished and these “journalists” are allowed to commit crimes,” he said.

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