El Salvador’s recent election may test Biden’s plan to stem immigration cruxnow.com

Weeks before legislative elections in February, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele kept trying to tamp down a report by The Associated Press that Biden administration officials had refused him a meeting during an impromptu trip he made to Washington.

Via Twitter, Bukele attacked the news agency, insisted the trip to Washington had been a private one with his wife and daughter, and he had not asked the Biden administration for a meeting, nor been snubbed.

He defended his account for days, and in a meeting with diplomats, he put Charge d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in San Salvador Brendan O’Brien in an uncomfortable position by asking him on camera to back up his claim…

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