Salvadoran news outlet El Faro says its assets frozen in retaliation for reporting on Bukele
The outlet says the freeze follows years of audits and spyware attacks, including Pegasus on more than 20 journalists’ iPhones in 2022.
- On Thursday, Faro announced that Salvadoran authorities froze assets belonging to its members, including a bank account and property, characterizing the move as political persecution for its investigative reporting on President Nayib Bukele.
- Salvadoran authorities have audited Faro since 2020, alleging $200,000 in tax evasion that the outlet denies; the newspaper moved its administrative structure to Costa Rica in 2023 citing the country's repressive climate.
- According to Faro, the freeze relates to a recently released documentary detailing President Nayib Bukele's alleged "criminal pacts" with gangs, with the outlet claiming the "ultimate objective is to silence us."
- Claudia Paz of the Costa Rican-based Center for Justice and International Law said in Thursday's news conference that the measure is "retaliation" for Faro's work and seeks to "silence the voices of journalists."
- The asset freeze occurs amid a four-year state of exception that has imprisoned around 92,000 people, while Faro staff have been working in exile for the past year as Salvador records its largest journalist exodus since the civil war.
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The influential digital newspaper El Faro reported on Thursday that Nayib Bukele's government froze assets of its partners in retaliation for their allegations of alleged deals between the president and gang members.
Salvadoran Newspaper Says Bukele Froze Partners’ Assets After Documentary : The Tico Times
The influential digital newspaper El Faro denounced on Thursday that the government of Nayib Bukele froze assets belonging to its partners in retaliation for its reports on alleged dealings between the president and gang members. The measure, which affects a bank account and a property, is linked to an alleged tax debt that the newspaper denies. Instead, El Faro connects the action to the recent publication of a documentary that expanded on its …
El Faro detailed that between February and April 2026 money was "frozen in a bank account and a property of two members of Tripode S.A. de C.V." The post Salvadoran digital media denounces the intervention of partner assets by the government of Bukele appeared first on EL NATIONALA.
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