SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CN) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele faces a concerted attempt by the political right and the putative left, which are blocking their reforms and to convince the public that their management is nothing more than that of their corrupt predecessors.
Bukele elected president in 2019 under the banner of the New Ideas Party, which created ex nihilo, has no deputy to the National Assembly and will not have it until the National Elections in February.
Therefore, the right-wing Arena party, formerly known as the Death Squad Party, and the corruption-plagued FMLN, which Bukele has moved, are doing everything they can to prevent Bukele from singing his programs, which polls show that they have broad support. through Bukele. La audience.
Their tactics come with efforts to reduce foreign donations that finance public projects. The right-wingers of the legislature prevented the Treasury from disbursing the budget already in the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. pro-disaster, Bukele’s enemies refuse to allow him to spend cash that would help other people and small businesses on the edge of the abyss.
A bombshell in influential virtual opposition El Faro accused the president of negotiating with major bands, M-13 and Barrio 18. The Lighthouse claimed that in returning for relief in homicides, the 28,000 imprisoned gang members benefited from the benefits of the Bukele administration.
The street view won’t. Perhaps most adults in this country of 6. 4 million people know someone in prison. They know that one of Bukele’s first steps was to confiscate the cell phones that the previous administration legally had in prisons and reduce violence by combining enemy gangs in prisons. same cell.
America’s Watch and the UN Human Rights Office warned that this “social mix” would lead to violent chaos, but in fact led to a truce. Unlike Brazil, Honduras and Guatemala, where gangs fought to the death in prisons in El Salvador, there were no such Bukele incidents. By taming the prisons, Bukele also appeased the streets, where gangs took orders from imprisoned hoods. Homicide statistics are down, extortion has gone down and the public is grateful.
Following these accusations of a secret pact with the gangs, the representative invited local media and foreign press to three prisons fully committed to gang members, when asked about the alleged benefits, the prisoners arrived empty, none visually and none reported.
However, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the BBC recently published articles supporting El Faro’s claims. CNN then published articles discrediting El Faro and its reports.
“It’s about sources,” a journalist with years of experience in Central America told Courthouse News. “The political powers in position are firmly in Bukele. “
It is difficult in any country to know what is going on in prisons, what is transparent is that Arena and the FMLN are wasting their control over the country Thirty years after the agreements that ended a terrible ten-year civil war, Bukele has been forcimed through an audience fed up with friendliness and corruption.
The February elections will have all seats in the National Assembly and all municipal governments. Surveys comfortably show Bukele’s New Ideas party and allies. The public aspires to a total rejection of the old methods.
The United States provides humanitarian and security assistance to El Salvador, as does China and many European countries. With more cash and a national legislature to allow him to spend it, Bukele will be to deal with severe retirement disorders, schools and ruinous infrastructure. This is not a new scenario in global politics: a reformist government that faces an ingrained political elegance willing to do anything to defeat reformers.