Meet the Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement

Meet the Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement

This article first appeared at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, went to the U.S. ambassador with an extraordinary request. Salvadoran authorities had intercepted a conversation between a journalist and a U.S. embassy contractor about corruption among high-level aides to the p…