SAN SALVADOR – The newspaper El Faro announced this Thursday, through the editorial ‘El Faro moves house’that its administrative and legal operation “moves” from El Salvador to Costa Rica due to the “lack of conditions” to continue operating in the Central American country.
“During the Bukele Administration, El Faro and its employees have been the target of delegitimization and defamation campaigns originating in the Presidential House; we have faced physical surveillance and threats; espionage with Pegasus; harassment of advertisers and defamation of officials and deputies of the official party”, points out the editorial.
El Faro also assures that the company Trípode, SA de CV, with which the newspaper was born 25 years ago, has faced multiple audits by the Ministry of Finance of that country, to which they continue to appeal “despite knowing that in El Salvador there is no longer a division of powers.”
“This is the culmination of a process that we undertook a few months ago (…) We are making a move that administratively protects the newspaper, which has been the first line of attack all this time for a regime obsessed with hiding its negotiations under the table , its corruption and its arbitrary management of public accounts,” the text adds.
The newspaper also points out the limited conditions for practicing journalism in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua where, they argue, there are several judicial processes against journalists, weak protection mechanisms for journalists at risk and the closure of media outlets.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary protection measures in February 2021 in favor of 34 members of El Faro after warning that “they would be being object of harassmentthreats, intimidation and stigmatization”.
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