El Salvador President: Nobody Cares About US Impeachment Inquiry

(The Hill) Marty Johnson 09/27/19 11:00 AM El Salvadors President Nayib Bukele dismissed the U.S. political storm over a whistleblower report alleging President Trump tried to persuade Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden saying nobody cares about it. Youre wasting airtime talking about something that nobody cares about Bukele told Fox News Martha MacCallum in an interview after first saying he did not want to get into U.S. politics. Bukele however noted he would be more careful about his conversations with President Trump when asked by MacCallum about whether he would be worried that any talk would be released to the public. Now Ill be more careful he said. Bukele also addressed the asylum agreement that El Salvador and the United States signed late last week to expand its capacity to accept asylum-seekers. Bukele stated that the onus of asylum should not fall entirely on the shoulders of the U.S. We have a problem that we need to fix Bukele said. In El Salvador we have been sending migrants to the United States and elsewhere since the 80s. Critics of the agreement spearheaded by Trump have cited El Salvadors high murder rate and proliferation of gang violence. Bukele addressed these issues claiming that hes decreased the murder rate 60 percent by fighting the gangs head-on. He believes that El Salvadorans dreams can come true at home without having to migrate to countries like the U.S.