The Guardian reports, wiping away tears;
His New Ideas party is expected to win almost all of the 60 seats in the legislative body, tightening its grip on the country and bestowing Bukele, the most powerful leader in El Salvador’s modern history, with even more sway.
“All together the opposition was pulverised,” Bukele, standing with his wife on the balcony of the National Palace, told his supporters. “El Salvador went from being the most unsafe [country] to the safest. Now in these next five years, wait to see what we are going to do.”
New Ideas’ electoral success means Bukele will wield unprecedented power and be able to overhaul El Salvador’s constitution, which his opponents fear will result in scrapping of term limits.
Wildly popular, Bukele has campaigned on the success of his security strategy under which authorities suspended civil liberties to arrest more than 75,000 Salvadorans without charges. The detentions led to a sharp decline in nationwide murder rates and fundamentally altered a country of 6.3 million people that was once among the world’s most dangerous.
Again – when they tell you who they are, believe them.
Bukele faced challenges with this election, as El Salvador initially didn’t allow a president to hold successive terms, which created turmoil within the country as leadership would change every five years regardless of the people’s will. With the aid of the Supreme Court, Bukele changed the rules to allow himself to run again. When he made the rule change, El Salvadorans took to the streets to celebrate, as Bukele boasts over a 90% approval rating in the country.
In the United States, however, the mainstream media took to calling Bukele a “dictator.” Much like we’ve seen with how they treat President Trump, news outlets began calling Bukele running for re-election a “threat to democracy.”
This message was amplified this week by Rep. Ilhan Omar, who put in a resolution for the U.S. to intervene in El Salvador’s elections. She posted to X, “I led Members of Congress in sending a letter to @SecBlinken urging action on threats to democracy in El Salvador. The State Dept must review its relationship with El Salvador and defend democratic values. The Salvadoran people deserve free and fair elections without fear of repression.”
I really don’t know much at all about El Salvador. But what I do know is that anything the US media and Ilhan Omar are against, it’s most likely something I should be supporting.
Agree 100 %, H.R.
As my father told me when I was a Kid. If the Liberals or the unions don’t like something, you do. If the Liberals/unions like something, you don’t.
We can add the Media to that list today.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, who put in a resolution for the U.S. to intervene in El Salvador’s elections.
Usually the CIA picks the winners for them…swell bunch of guys that they are.
Interesting… I’ll keep watching
His re-election is due to his appealing to the majority.
Instead of pandering to ethnic racists, our leaders might dare to appeal to the majority for once.
Only MAJORITY rule will reverse the decay in Canada. Down with the percentages and up with the whole.
The end of minority tyranny is coming.
Who knew vacuum cleaning the country of murderous gangs would do wonders for a leader.
Reminds me of Duterte Harry in the Philippines.
Note the difference between the two stories.
The Guardian saying that their economy is in trouble.
PJMedia sez (sic) that El Salvador are doing well.
Who is misinforming? … misleading? …. lying? …. not telling the whole story?
Who you gonna call?
Vito
PJM, = lefty “never Trump” shithole. So I believe nothing from them, unless it is one of their trusted opiners
GYM… did I read that right? PJM is a “lefty ‘Never-Trump’ shithole?”
I have a friend in Ottawa that on occasion gets published in PJM (initials stand for Pajama Media, btw…), and I can tell you that they are nowhere near as rabid, never-Trumper left as you seem to think.
I would go so far as to say that PJM generally is not living inside Donald’s pockets. I view that as a good thing. The Trump cult of personality is still a -cult-.
Besides, if GYM said the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, I would go and check to see for myself.
The left is the biggest user of the cult of personality. Always has. That’s why you still see Che t-shirts and Lenin t-shirts. You can see it every single day. No substance, just a FAKE personality. It has always been that way….that’s why the commies pickled Vladimir Lenin and has what’s left of his corpse on public display.
Panty Boi
Yer getting to be like the COLON, wrong on a very broad range of topics, and completely wrong at that.
PjM had a straw poll up for ever, Trump, 13.12 %, De Santis 63.13%. Now tell me IDIOT, which one is still standing?
As to Trump cult FU*K OFF, just to keep it short and sweet. One more thing phantomCOLON, there is an advantage to having a hi IQ, one learns faster, and to greater depth. There is also a disadvantage, and you exemplify that disadvantage, being one lives in a world of IDIOTS like you.
FC(fc)
You have friends, Katholiks no doubt , who are themselves mostly lefties, and as you have proven stupidity and leftism are not far removed from each other.
I have about 30 Catholic friends, and every one is a liberal supprter.
The Guardian, for sure lying. All day, every day, all year long. They’re communists. They lie. That’s how it is.
PJ Media, -could- be lying. Or misinformed, or misleading, or just wrong. Or right, that’s possible too.
The one thing you can be sure of, -you- are most likely not getting the whole story.
The whole story is their economy isn’t great (yet) but crime is way down. He went all in on the gangs and the people love him for that. Pat on the back I say. Fixing any economy is tricky.
LOL
Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) wouldn’t know the meaning of democracy if it bit her on her rancid arse. There isn’t a more despicable politician in the US.
I don’t know about that. It’s a pretty tight race with plenty of contenders.
If you wanted to explain how a radical like Omar got elected, well just look at her constituents that elected her.
I’d say Lindsay or Mitch. Omar will stab you in the front. The other guys stab you in the back.
Remarkable how quickly things turn around when criminals are incarcerated.
El Salvador:
Affordable cost of living.
Safety & Security.
Hospitable, friendly people.
Affordable, state of the art Health Care facilities.
Year round pleasant climate.
No Trudeau regime.
Life in El Salvador or Canada? Hmmmm.
I just hope they make the improvements to security permanent, because there is always the fear that the scum will be let loose and return El Salvador to near-Somalia levels of lawlessness.
I’m considering it.
If you replace El Salvador with Cuba in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s mini rant, she “almost” makes sense.
Hopefully President Bukele has someone trained up to take the reins after this term, it’s doubtful the Constitutional Court in El Salvador will permit a 3rd term after this without a change to their constitution, and while continuing with his success this term, it may be very difficult to continue this equally in his second term for 4 years
People get used to security very quickly…
There’s a lot of crypto wealth being spent in El Salvador as well. The President’s embrace of this may save them from the mediocracy that will embrace first world fiat printers, time will tell.
Good news still, very good to see this in El Salvador. Need somewhere to retire to and Mexico is not fitting your bill? It’s not so far that if there’s a SHTF moment in the next decade, one can’t make the drive. Just don’t do it in an EV. I haven’t determined as of yet if the SHTF moment is more likely in Canada, and that long drive will be headed south when it happens and not a long drive north, like everyone cozy with Canadian governance assumes.
One enormous long term concern is what are they going to do with the gang members that are imprisoned? Can they keep them imprisoned for the rest of their lives? Until they are forty? Fifty? Sixty?
Someone sometime in the next 15 years will with the best of intentions and the support of the fuzzy brained people of El Salvador, free all those poor, innocent prisoners. Since it is a Latin American country, likely all of the prisoners simultaneously, to curry favor from the mob during a difficult time in their administration, and the fuzzy brained leaders of the World. (Can you imagine the praises they would receive from Justin Trudeau, the EU, or the Pope?)
Then they will be back to the beginning all over again.
Yes rd,
because at some point in the future, a future President of El Salvador who is well meaning, wanting “the best” for his people, wanting to be inclusive and seen as someone who can return El Salvador to a loving and accepting state, will release those people now in prison. Someone willing to compromise with others.
And then El Salvador can toss all its gains into the dumpster, and return to near failed state status.
Or, train up someone who knows better, and knows well that the left has been at this for +100 years.
That gives Bukele 5 years to man up and shoot them. All.
I was sooooooo sorry to hear of the prisoners mass hunger strike. I’m sure they would have all repented their lives of crime had they lived …
In other news, approximately 5% of El Salvadorans now live in the US.
Amusingly, were the US to send 5% of their population to El Salvador they would outnumber all the El Salvadorans three to one.
A lesson here for Brasil
“Much like we’ve seen with how they treat President Trump, news outlets began calling Bukele running for re-election a “threat to democracy.”
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Yup, once again leftists projecting their own ideology on their opponents.
The corporate media support the gangbanger drug cartels in El Salvador. The media complex equates organized crime with “democracy. “
When a small percentage of the population can’t impose its will on the vast majority, it’s a terrible threat.
Gee … IDK … but 90% popularity sure sounds like Democracy to me …
What’s the problem leftists?
You stupid Deplorable, democracy means your betters telling you which acceptable choice you may make. Don’t make us tell you again prole,…..er, citizen.
“…wait to see what we are going to do.”
Nowhere really, it will always be a shithole. But less of shithole that it used to be. Certain limitations are hard coded.
The Guardian….what a bloody joke.
Ian certainly doesn’t need it.
The situation shows up the dichotomy between the average citizen for whom government and the legal system are practical tools for living a (hopefully) better life and the elites, divorced and protected from reality by their wealth, power and privilege, for whom those institutions are philosophical debating clubs. It’s a similar situation in this country although not yet quite to the same extreme — but definitely heading there.
… and no doubt in those caravans regularly assembling near Guatemala’s western border (a few hours drive from El Salvador) are quite a few people who decided they wouldn’t hang around and wait to be arrested in El Salvador. Couple of months later, if they don’t meet friendly faces in mexico, guess where they are … it begins with U.S. and ends with A. …