“We have taken a 180 degree turn and if we were going towards democracy, today we are going towards dictatorship†: Julia Evelyn MartÃnez 2024-02-25 04:31:33

This Thursday in the Encuentro interview with Julio Villagrán, the economist, Julia Evelyn Martínez, carried out an analysis of what is coming for El Salvador in the next five years, after President Nayib Bukele won the presidential re-election, where He also pointed out that a democracy is not only what the majority says, but it has other components, such as the existence of weights and against people, respect for human rights, respect for the Constitution of the Republic, electoral competitiveness , among others.

For the economist, the country has taken a 180 degree turn, since, if in previous governments, despite the difficulties, the country was moving towards a democracy, now it is moving towards a dictatorship.

Regarding the economic issue, he considered that the Government “now that it has the entire population in fear”, will install a hyper-liberal economic program, which consists of stripping families of their assets and removing them from their territories so that They can be used by national and international companies, where stability and economic growth can be observed but only for the powerful classes, and where the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dictates some conditions to be able to provide more loans to the Government.

“Once the IMF comes in, it will not allow a salary increase, nor a pension reform that eliminates the AFP or improves pensions, nor will it allow the issue of greater hiring in public sectors such as health.†€. Además, “This Government could achieve economic growth and it could be done through mining, but at the cost of the destruction of ecosystems.”aggregate.

For the economist, the levels of economic inequality are going to be so great that family evictions, land expropriations, among other scenarios, are going to lead to this situation.

Finally, Martínez predicts a repression against opposition voices, the normalization of the violation of Civil rights, which will be covered with better shopping centers and mega works, but behind that more and more groups will live in conditions of exclusion. social.