El Salvador’s elected president, Nayib BukeleIn his first speech he blamed Spain overwhelming victory In the presidential elections, As the polls predicted, he surpassed his opponents by a large margin and reached his second term after circumventing the Constitution.
Bukele explained A Spanish journalist asked him why they “wanted to dismantle the gun”. democracy“: “I told him, but which democracy are you talking about? Democracy means the power of the people. ‘Demos’ and ‘Kratos’. “This is where the word democracy comes from,” he said, referring to his victory in the elections in which he received approximately 80 percent of the votes.
“This means people power. If Salvadorans want it, Why would a Spanish journalist come and tell us what Salvadorans should do? Which democracy are you talking about? He talks about the democracy his bosses told him about in Spain. But this is not democracy. “This is colonialism, imperialism, elitism, plutocracy, you can call it whatever you want,” he said.
In this sense, he stated the following. Democracy is when “Salvadorians” choose their own government. For this reason, he called out journalists, NGOs and international organizations who criticized Human Rights violations in his recent war against gangs.
“We don’t want anything from them, we don’t want money, we don’t want donations, we don’t want international aid. All we want is respect.” In his speech at the National Palace, he stated the following: “Savior It opens its doors wide to citizens of all countries in the world.
“We want them to come, to visit us, to get to know us. We want to be their friends, their allies, their partners. What we won’t do is be their lackeys. And that’s not just because we have that right, which we have, but also because we’ve been trying their recipes for 50 years already.” and because it never worked,” he dismisses international criticism.
In March 2022, Bukele imposed a state of emergency that has continued ever since, with no signs of ending. The success of your security strategy includes: 74,000 prisonersGang dismantling through the suspension of basic rights such as the right to expression and association, and murder rates are among the lowest in Latin America.