El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ boasts country would be ‘a one-party system’ after election win
Nayib Bukele claims landslide victory and says Spanish democracy is a colonial fraud in impassioned speech to supporters
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial president, attacked Spanish colonialism and imperialism in a fiery victory speech after he won a landslide victory.
Amid claims he is turning the country into a dictatorship, he boasted to flag-waving crowds below the presidential palace that El Salvador would be the first country with “a one-party system in a democracy”.
“The entire opposition together was pulverised,” Mr Bukele, who once styled himself the “world’s coolest dictator”, told the cheering masses.
The baseball cap-wearing Mr Bukele, 42, has become vastly popular for his war on gangs, but he has also been accused of stifling the courts and silencing opposition.
In his speech he said a Spanish journalist had recently asked him why he wants to dismantle democracy.
ITT: People who don't know what the fuck they're talking about. If you're not Salvadorean, or have no understanding of how politics in El Salvador have been for the past half-century, kindly shut up.
Glad you cleared that up for all of us.
Or else they'll be arrested and put in a camp without legal recourse?
Only if they try to enter the US.
Do you have any idea about what's going on in El Salvador at all?
Yes, they voted in an authorstarian after being subject to some of the worse violence rates in the world, do you have any idea about whats going on at the US Southern border? Because one of those places has and has been for years now utilizing detention camps. Which is why it's funny you bring up detention camps when talking about them.
We're not allowed to have our own opinions?
How very Dictator of you.
Yeah I mean 85% of the people voted for him which is a crazy majority, so he must directing the country in the direction the population wants..
I don’t agree with it, but I’m not El Salvadoran so my opinion doesn’t matter.
Can other latin Americans who suffer under crime comment? :'(