Reports indicate that President Nayib Bukele’s administration has intensified efforts to silence independent media, using harassment, surveillance, and financial pressure against journalists. teleSUR
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00:00The Farrar News website denounced that the Salvadoran Prosecutor's Office seeks to issue arrest warrants against its journalists after revealing links between the government and criminal groups.
00:10The chair of the media outlet, Carlos Dada, advanced that the Prosecutor's Office is taking the aforesaid actions after having interviewed two heads of criminal groups, including Carlos Cartagena, a.k.a. Charlie Dada.
00:26He further provided details of the political strategy between President Bukele and criminal groups at the outset of his candidacy for mayor of San Salvador by 2014.
00:39Both Charlie and the criminal leader Man indicated that these groups threatened several communities to force them to vote for Bukele.
00:47Obviously, the government denied all testimonies and allegations.