2023-07-31 20:48:27
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s security policy has not been free from questioning since he launched it in March 2022 in response to an increase in homicides. Since then, more than 60,000 alleged gang members have been detained, within the framework of the emergency regime.
His strategy against crime has focused the attention of both international organizations and some governments; In addition to being news for months, and not only in El Salvador or the rest of Latin America, since there are multiple articles written from the United States to the European continent.
Nayib Bukele seeks to participate in the next general elections. | Photo: Archyde.com / Jessica Orellana
Along these lines, a controversy has been unleashed between the Central American president and the newspaper El País of Spain, after a publication entitled ‘Bukele’s hell in El Salvador: a country submerged in a police state, without citizen rights and under censorship.’
After the publication of this article, the reactions did not wait, with Nayib Bukele himself being one of the people who spoke out to condemn the complaints made against him by the well-known media outlet owned by Grupo Prisa from Spain.
What did Bukele respond to the medium?
“An absurd headline that contradicts his own article, where he states that 90% of Salvadorans approve of our work (no president in the world has even similar approval). In the past, not even a fifth-rate journalist would have signed such an absurd article, but the despair is great”, pointed out the president.
The president of El Salvador points out that behind these journalistic statements there are interests of the Soros organization that his country return to the era of violence. | Photo: Getty Images
In the midst of his questioning of what was published by the newspaper El País, Nayib Bukele took two fragments of the text of the American newspaper in which a series of positive data can be seen about his tenure as head of the government of El Salvador. One of them warns:
“And this is the problem: not only Salvadorans love him, politicians and officials from Honduras to Argentina have been impressed by Bukele’s iron-fisted regime, tempted by the political gain that implementing the same tactics in their plagued societies could bring. of crime”.
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, had already had a controversy with the Spanish media. | Photo: Press Secretary of the Presidency of El Salvador
On this day, the head of state insisted on his criticism by saying that the journalists “of (George) Soros” wanted their country to return to the time when crime was a constant.
What does the article criticized by Bukele say?
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador currently has high popularity rates inside and outside his country. | Photo: Rights-managed Getty Images
According to the European media, this highlights “the arbitrariness committed by the authorities for more than a year of a state of emergency imposed by the president to deal with the gang violence that was bleeding the country dry.”
There are already more than 60,000 suspected gang members detained in El Salvador. | Photo: AFP / EL SALVADOR’S PRESIDENCY PRESS OFFICE
In another part of the article it is read that it is the “recount of an infernal reality in a country where more than 77,000 people have been detained, citizen guarantees have been suspended, security has been militarized, torture and disappearances and censorship have been denounced.” It is imposed as State policy”.
Despite the results shown by Bukele in terms of restoring security in his country, his ‘way’ of achieving it has been widely questioned inside and outside his country. | Photo: Camilo Freedman/NurPHoto
Collective lawsuits against gang members increase
The abuses of Human Rights through Bukele’s security policies have also aroused comments against him, which he seeks to silence through censorship. | Photo: REUTERS
The “transitory provision” received the green light with the votes of 67 legislators allied with the president, Nayib Bukele, out of the 84 that make up the Legislative Assembly.
They are not the only questions against Bukele
In the midst of the conflicting opinions that President Bukele arouses inside and outside his country, other questions have recently been raised against the leader who applies a heavy hand in El Salvador; one of them came from Chile, and was in charge of the writer and intellectual Isabel Allende.
Recently, the critical voice of the writer Isabel Allende against Bukele was also heard from Spain. | Photo: Oscar González/NurPhoto
Allende’s recent pronouncement came at a time when, in the midst of the tension in Chile, some political sectors have been openly critical of the current president of that country, Gabriel Boric, even going so far as to view with hope the emergence of an eventual figure like the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele.
For Allende, wishing for the emergence of a leader like Bukele in Chile is practically the same as wishing for the return of Pinochet. | Photo: Getty Images
The writer, who is also the niece of the assassinated and overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende, the object of the military coup that precisely brought Pinochet to power for nearly a decade and a half, recalled that the passage of the uniformed man through the Chilean command represented the restriction of civil and political rights, recalling some of its restrictive policies, and the state of siege that it implemented.
In statements collected by international media, the writer Allende affirmed that although “in Chile now people are longing for a Bukele, I say: be careful. That was Pinochet”.
For the writer, in statements to local media in Spain, although one can speak of a ‘safe Chile’, under the Pinochet dictatorship, “insecurity and terror came from the State”.
Despite the criticism and his high popularity, even though the Constitution of his country does not provide for re-election, Bukele is already a candidate to achieve it. | Photo: 2021 APHOTOGRAPHY
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