The lightness of statements given by the ambassador assigned to Washington; Milena Mayorga, have raised serious suspicions about the real mission entrusted to the novice diplomat who will assume the management of the most important legation of Salvadoran diplomacy. Nationals in the United States are alert to the possible double face that the government would show.
Hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans living in the United States, of which about 200 thousand are covered by the Temporary Protected Status (TPS), plus another high number in an undocumented condition, have raised the antennas with maximum alert to what they could face with the Salvadoran diplomatic mission in the United States, which in an unprecedented action, they fear has reached an agreement under the table with the Donald Trump administration that will put them in more trouble.
That the designated ambassador of El Salvador in Washington, Milena Mayorga, “has gone out of her way” on Twitter would be just a worrying sign that has set off alarms, as it could be a line of work already hatched from the Presidential House in San Salvador with her counterpart in Washington.
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The coordinator of the TPS National Alliance in Baltimore, Maryland, Concepción Morales, does not doubt that Mayorga’s words could be a clear sign of where the Salvadoran diplomatic management in Washington is heading, and that fortunately the ambassador left in words and revealed the nature of his mission.
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“It is not in our plan to return to El Salvador. It is highly worrying that they (the Salvadoran government) plan to make an agreement under the table for us as if we are a bargaining chip for a political move. We already have enough here in the United States with the policies established against our community by the Donald Trump administration for El Salvador to play the game; on the contrary, from the government of our country we would expect unconditional support for our community and not what seems to be coming our way, “says Morales.
This fellow countryman, who has worked in the construction industry for 22 years who migrated to the United States, was one of the first leaders of the groups formed in the United States to create the TPS National Alliance network, which brings together some 70 committees in 30 states of the American Union.
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Morales also values the will of the Salvadorans who entrusted Bukele to lead the government as a fraud.
For the Salvadoran businessman Nilson Cañénguez, owner of the Quality Construction company, which operates in the Washington Metropolitan Area, where about 300 workers are employed, the vast majority Salvadorans and a good percentage of TPS beneficiaries, like him, he believes that before everything: “The management of the Foreign Ministry and the government in general reveals the ineptitude and ignorance about migrant Salvadorans in the United States.”
Nilson reflects that the decision to migrate has been individual to each Salvadoran who took the risk of leaving the country and his family to seek better opportunities for his family in the United States, and that now that a government agrees with its counterpart to make alleged unconsulted arrangements before those potentially affected, who number in the hundreds of thousands, say they feel “betrayed”.
As a businessman, Cañénguez releases numbers and figures on the contributions that compatriots make to the United States, even the undocumented, first with the work effort, which translates into dollars that pour in and inject vitality into the Salvadoran economy, but also pay much in the United States to the coffers of local, state and federal governments with the payment of taxes.
Worry that is not free
José Palma, coordinator of the Massachusetts State Committee and member of the leadership of the National TPS Alliance, adds that the concern is not gratuitous, since the signals with the message issued by the ambassador are alarming and give reason to think that it could be a behind-the-scenes arrangement between the Executive of Nayib Bukele and that of Donald Trump that would leave the Salvadoran immigrant community defenseless.
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“That worries us greatly, that on the one hand they do one thing and on the other they want to try to say that it is another; and that has set off the alarms in our community, at first they said they supported us, now we see with amazement and great concern that something is being negotiated behind our backs, ”he says.
The analyst Paolo Lüers, in one of his weekly letters, sent to Ambassador Mayorga, lets him see that the instructions he has received from the Salvadoran ruler are not for him to brag on the social network, and that diplomacy demands basic qualities, In this case, in order to fulfill those entrusted by Bukele, he would have to assume a double standard; although now it is too late because he has already revealed the letter hidden up his sleeve.
The TPS National Alliance is clear about it: men and women who lead this organization that brings together thousands of compatriots already have the artillery ready for their defense and clarify that any plan they have designed with detriment to the working community of Salvadorans that they send every year to the country billions in remittances, it will not be easy, because the attitude of struggle is on.
José Palma warns that the fight is focused on having a permanent residence and that is where all their work is pointing and that to achieve this they will work “with the help of the Salvadoran government or without it”, and that the next movements of this organization are to keep the battle in the courts of justice of the United States and continue in negotiations in the halls of the Senate and the House of Representatives. For now, November 3 presents a key date to measure the caliber of the rest of the artillery to be used for the long battle that they foresee where the novice ambassador will have to move.
Indignation persists over what Mayorga said
After the uproar after the message from the ambassador assigned Milena Mayorga to the Washington headquarters, and in response to the public request made by the TPS National Alliance to meet urgently with the new official, uncertainty persists.
Disagreement and misgivings are on the line, although the ambassador accepted a virtual meeting with a group that is participating in a Caravan for Justice that is touring several states in the central west of the country and that will culminate in Washington in November, they are still waiting for a meeting with the national leadership of the organization to put all the cards on the table.
On recent Thursday, a group of the committees arrived at the building that houses the Salvadoran diplomatic headquarters to present a letter and make a demonstration act with some dozen TPS beneficiaries whose objective was to deliver a letter to him.
When the doors were closed, indignation reigned, but in the end the minister counselor, Luis Aparicio, one of the employees of the legation, came out to receive the letter and promised to send it to the new head of the mission.
The Diario de Hoy tried to know when the arrival of the new ambassador to Washington would be expected, but sources at the embassy said they do not know the date, that they understand that it will wait in San Salvador for the approval of the State Department with the so-called “approval” for present their credentials to the White House.
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