Twitter critics of Bukele government being prosecuted
In recent days, El Salvador's Attorney General, has decided to prosecute two Salvadorans for what they published on Twitter. While Nayib Bukele has often said that his government does not lock up protesters or critics, that might appear to be changing. The first of these persons is a tech worker named Luis Alexander Rivas, who had been tweeting under the anonymous Twitter account @_elcomisionado_ . Rivas has used that Twitter account, where he has 8400 followers, to be a vitriolic critic of the Nuevas Ideas-controlled government. Rivas was initially arrested on August 21, shortly after he published a tweet with a photo criticizing the use of public funds in a deployment of public security forces at the beach providing security for the president's brother Karim Bukele and his family. It certainly wasn't the first time that Rivas had tweeted critiques of the president's family. His tweets have often been directed at first lady Gabriela Bukele as well. ...