President Danilo Medina was in El Salvador on Saturday, 1 June 2019 to participate in the inaugural of the 38-year old President of El Salvador, Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez. A former mayor of the El Salvador capital city, Bukele was elected with 53% of the votes in February.
Medina traveled to El Salvador with Foreign Relations Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Administrative Minister of the Presidency José Ramón Peralta; Finance Minister Donald Guerrero, and government spokesman Roberto Rodríguez Marchena. Also on the Dominican delegation was José Miguel González, executive director of the La Barquita urban renewal project (URBE), and his special assistants.
In April 2019, when still President-elect Bukele had paid a courtesy visit to President Danilo Medina at the Presidential Palace.
According to a Presidency press release, the Dominican Republic has a trade deficit with El Salvador. Imports from El Salvador in 2018 were US$6.9 million compared to US$721,239.78 in exports.
President Medina was back in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, when he traveled to northwestern Valverde to inaugurate irrigation works.
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3 June 2019