California governor counters Trump in visit to El Salvador.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom arrived in El Salvador to learn about the poverty and violence forcing thousands to flee and demonstrate an alternative to what he called PresidentHe kicked off his four-day trip Sunday with harsh words for Trump, who recently moved to halt foreign aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and has mocked people seeking asylum amid a surge of families and children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
He visited the tomb of Saint Oscar Romero, the Salvadoran priest assassinated in 1980 at the start of the nation's civil war, because of his advocacy for human rights and the poor, a symbolic way to begin a trip that's designed to give Newsom a better sense of the deep social and economic challenges Salvadorans face.
Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt of San Salvador, the capital city, said he hopes Newsom can use his political influence to halt the cuts to U.S. aid, saying the cuts will halt the countries' progress and could cause more people to flee. He joined Newsom at the San Salvador cathedral where Romero is buried. The Trump administration has not commented on Newsom's trip. But Republicans in California have said the governor should be more focused on poverty back home.
"How do you understand California without understanding all the diverse cultures that make it the most diverse state?" he said. "It's fundamental, it seems to me, to governing a state. That's why I'm here in the first months." Manuel Lara, 52, has family living in Los Angeles and said he learned of Newsom's trip from the news. Lara tried to come to the United States unsuccessfully in the 1980s and now works in construction in El Salvador. He makes $10 per day.Newsom said he hopes to show Salvadorans there's "a completely different conversation" happening in the United States outside of Trump's comments.
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