SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Journalists Association is moving its legal status out of the country in response to a foreign agents law passed earlier this year that was seen as a way to pressure critical voices in the Central American nation.

Founded in 1936, the association said Wednesday that to continue defending journalists’ rights and freedom of the press it would have to move to another country, which it did not name. The association announced plans in September to close its offices.

“This was a difficult decision, taken after evaluating the urgent need to work without limitations, pressures,” the group said in a statement.

President Nayib Bukele has consolidated his grip on power since winning reelection in a landslide. He points to his success in fighting the c

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