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.
That would be the same El Salvador that’s had the world’s highest murder rate since I was a kid, would it?
Sounds like the “war on gangs” is just “replace them all with one big gang and put the leader in charge of the country”.
But go back far enough and that’s how a lot of countries became more than a bunch of local warlords fucking up each others shit.
The oposition literally invited the gangs to decide what to do with the country.
It’s documented in video.
Study the case first before giving a strong opinion.
Their murder rate is way down thanks to the efforts of the man you are criticizing for having too much power.
Before him, that’s when gangs were running rampant and contributing to the murder rate you recall as a child.
This is why people overwhelmingly support him. It turns out, results speak louder than ideologies.
Retards will not understand this last part, though.
I’m tunisian and i know dictators excuses very well to stay in power. Lot of people was kidnapoed, tortured and killed by Ben Ali. Ben Ali excuse was about protecting people from Islamist extremist.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Power doesn’t corrupt. It just reveals the corruption we already have inside of us.
If someone who is not corrupt is given power, then they will wield that power responsibly.
If someone is corrupt, then their power will reflect that corruption because it enables the temptations to which they succumb.
Try thinking for yourself instead of just trying to fit in.
I posit that an uncorruptible person would never allow themselves to become a Dictator.
An uncorruptible individual would possess other traits that would humble them enough to not believe that they are above all others.
A Dictator believes that they themselves have the only right to rule.
tRy tHinkING foR yoUrself iNsTEad of JUst trYInG To fiT iN.
Get rid of the ableist slur please.