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.

    • maness300@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Dictatorships are not intrinsically bad.

      You can have good dictators, even if they are rare.

      If you can’t comprehend this, then you are a victim of propaganda and indoctrination.

      Sometimes, it’s easier to convince the masses to vote against themselves than it is to convince a dictator to sell them out.

      For example, Mexico vs. El Salvador.

      15 years ago, nobody thought Mexico would have a worse gang problem than El Salvador. Without Bukele’s heavy-handed approach to suppressing gangs, they would still be running rampant like they are in Mexico.

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    6 months ago

    El Salvador’s El Presidente.

    “The opposition will retire and may not be seen for a while.” - Tropico