Robert Menendez actually said...

I appreciate what you said about Ambassador Aponte.

Will you make it one of your priorities when you are at post to continue to work with the Salvadoran government?

President Carrera is a fierce critic of the United States. He has ejected State Department representatives.

I would assume that it will be your mission to, beyond interlocutors at an intergovernmental level, to robustly pursue civil society element...