The Government of El Salvador, chaired by Nayib Bukele, on Saturday ordered the expulsion of the Venezuelan diplomatic corps accredited in the Central American country and has given 48 hours to leave the territory, according to a statement published by the president in his social networks.

The Bukele Government also "recognizes the legitimacy of the president in charge, Juan Guaidó, while free elections are held in accordance with the Venezuelan Constitution."

"The Government of El Salvador expels the diplomatic corps from the regime of Nicolás Maduro, being consistent with the repeated statements of President Nayib Bukele, in which the legitimacy of the Maduro government is not recognized," the document detailed.

According to the statement, the Salvadoran government gives 48 hours to the entire diplomatic corps of the "Maduro regime" to leave the national territory.

The decision, according to the source, "is in accordance with the vote that the Salvadoran representation cast, along with 20 other member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS), on August 28".

In that vote, a resolution was approved that supports the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, which admitted and certified that "the regime of Nicolás Maduro makes systematic violations of human rights against Venezuelans."

Repeatedly Bukele, from the right-wing Grand Alliance for National Unity (WINS), has ruled against "the Maduro regime", so much so that the president made the decision not to invite the Venezuelan president to his inauguration, which It was held on June 1.

"Dictators like Maduro in Venezuela will never have any legitimacy, because they remain in power by force and do not respect the will of their people," Bukele said days before his inauguration.

With this decision Bukele breaks with the support that past administrations, specifically those of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), provided Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

The FMLN, founded as a guerrilla in 1980 and became a party after the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992, was close to the governments of Maduro and Chávez, so the administration of Salvador Sánchez Cerén (2009-2014) abstained from vote in OAS sessions dedicated to the Venezuelan crisis.