{"id":2367941,"date":"2024-11-12T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lowers-el-salvador-travel-advisory-to-level-2-after-caucus-protest-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:42:14","slug":"us-lowers-el-salvador-travel-advisory-to-level-2-after-caucus-protest-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-lowers-el-salvador-travel-advisory-to-level-2-after-caucus-protest-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"US lowers El Salvador travel advisory to Level 2 after caucus protest &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-lowers-el-salvador-travel-advisory-to-level-2-after-caucus-protest-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2367941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. State Department has lowered its travel advisory for El Salvador from Level 3 (&#8220;Reconsider\u200d Travel&#8221;) to Level 2, following pressure from the Congressional El Salvador\u200b Caucus. This change acknowledges the significant improvement in the country&#8217;s crime rates, \u200dattributed to President Nayib Bukele&#8217;s effective gang crackdown over the past two years. The updated advisory indicates a notable decline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proceeds-from-kanye-west-and-drakes-free-larry-hoover-concert-going-to-woke-criminal-justice-groups\/\" title=\"Proceeds from Kanye West and Drake&#039;s &#039;Free Larry Hoover&#039; Concert Going to Woke Criminal Justice Groups\">gang-related activities<\/a> and violent crimes, allowing U.S. government \u2063employees to travel throughout the \u2063country during daylight \u2062hours.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional members, such as Co-Chairman Matt Gaetz, \u200bexpressed pleasure with the advisory&#8217;s revision,\u200d indicating it as a victory for both countries\u2019\u2064 relations. Despite the positive news, some lawmakers aimed \u2062for a further reduction to Level 1. The lowered advisory is expected to boost El Salvador\u2019s burgeoning tourism \u200bindustry, which has \u2063flourished due to the improved safety conditions. this decision marks a\u200c significant step forward in U.S.-El \u2064Salvador relations \u2063and highlights the ongoing efforts to enhance \u2062security and\u2062 promote \u200btourism in the Central American nation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">US lowers El Salvador travel advisory to Level 2 after caucus protest<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1557451\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The United States lowered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/el-salvador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"El Salvador's\">El Salvador&rsquo;s<\/a> travel advisory to Level 2 after protests from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3072760\/matt-gaetz-announce-creation-congressional-el-salvador-caucus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congressional El Salvador Caucus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The United States had previously refused to lower the country&rsquo;s travel designation from Level 3, &ldquo;Reconsider Travel,&rdquo; the second-highest rating possible, despite the transformation of the country&rsquo;s crime situation. Over the past decade, the country had gone from having the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/st-louis-mayor-more-police-doesnt-prevent-crime-megyn-kelly-fires-back-four-words\/\" title=\"St. Louis Mayor: \u2018More Police Doesn\u2019t Prevent Crime.\u2019 Megyn Kelly Fires Back Four Words.\">highest murder rate<\/a> on Earth to one of the lowest, largely due to President Nayib Bukele&rsquo;s gang crackdown. After protests from the newly formed Congressional El Salvador Caucus, the United States lowered the travel advisory to Level 2.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While crime remains a concern in El Salvador, there has been a significant reduction in gang-related activity and associated crime in the last two years,&rdquo; the updated advisory on the U.S. Embassy&rsquo;s website says. &ldquo;This includes drops in violent crimes and murders. U.S. government employees may travel throughout the country during daylight hours.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The El Salvador Caucus was quick to claim credit for the move, earning the attention of Bukele.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The future is bright for El Salvador and its relationship with the United States,&rdquo; El Salvador Caucus Co-Chairman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told the Washington Examiner. &ldquo;Last week, the El Salvador Caucus delivered a huge win when the State Department agreed to lower El Salvador&rsquo;s travel advisory from Level 3 to Level 2 in response to the Caucus&rsquo;s August letter. In just three months, our work has achieved real results for the betterment of our nations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The El Salvador Caucus is excited to announce that the State Department has lowered El Salvador&rsquo;s travel advisory to &ldquo;Level 2!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In just three months our work has achieved real results for the betterment of our nations.<\/p>\n<p>The future is bright!<\/p>\n<p>&#127482;&#127480; &#129309; &#127480;&#127483;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pymixiTraH\">https:\/\/t.co\/pymixiTraH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TH6rQ4Etz7\">https:\/\/t.co\/TH6rQ4Etz7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lHuRjjy5Po\">pic.twitter.com\/lHuRjjy5Po<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; U.S. El Salvador Caucus (@SAL_Caucus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAL_Caucus\/status\/1854957521695293472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Peace and security conditions for tourism have existed in El Salvador for more than two years. This is the first achievement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAL_Caucus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">@SAL_Caucus<\/a>, and I am sure that with the new administration we will do much more. We are ready to welcome all American visitors,&rdquo; Salvadoran Ambassador Carmen Milena Mayorga said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Peace and security conditions for tourism have existed in El Salvador for more than two years. <\/p>\n<p>This is the first achievement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAL_Caucus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SAL_Caucus<\/a>, and I am sure that with the new administration we will do much more.<\/p>\n<p>We are ready to welcome all American visitors. &#127480;&#127483;&#128588;&#127995;&#127482;&#127480;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Milena Mayorga (@MilenaMayorga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MilenaMayorga\/status\/1854934133006364779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Bukele <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1854964204165267704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"shared\">shared<\/a> the announcement as well.<\/p>\n<p>The travel advisory lowering serves as a major boon for the Central American nation, which has seen its tourism industry explode in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>However, the lowering isn&rsquo;t a total victory, as August&rsquo;s letter from the bipartisan El Salvador Caucus called for the lowering of the country&rsquo;s travel advisory to Level 1.<\/p>\n<p>El Salvador had a Level 4 travel advisory for an extended period across the 2000s and 2010s due to the gang violence engulfing the country. A Salvadoran official familiar with the matter told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;that it was first lowered to a Level 2 in September 2019 after a personal request by Bukele during a meeting in the United States with President-elect Donald Trump, then-President.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. Tourism ranked the country as having the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">fourth fastest-growing tourism industry<\/a>. Valdez said the tourism industry is set to amount to 14% of the country&rsquo;s GDP by the end of 2024, compared to 5%-6% in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tourism Minister&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/morenavaldezsv?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morena Ileana Valdez Vigil<\/a> stressed the importance of American tourists while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3111728\/congressional-el-salvador-caucus-biden-lower-travel-advisory-level\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"speaking with\">speaking with<\/a> the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in August.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It has been an issue in the past, but actually, the security has impacted the tourism level,&rdquo; Valdez said. &ldquo;Two million visitors we have received this year, 40% coming from the United States. &hellip; Also, we are receiving a growth in tourism from Canada, South America, and Europe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1557451\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1557451\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US reduces El Salvador travel advisory to Level 2 after caucus protests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2367943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/El-Salvador-Travel-advisory.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[44882,44880,44881,44879],"class_list":["post-2367941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-caucus-protest","tag-el-salvador","tag-level-2-advisory","tag-us-travel-advisory"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/El-Salvador-Travel-advisory.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367945,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367941\/revisions\/2367945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}