this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
75 points (100.0% liked)

World News

38255 readers
2256 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday.

The announcement comes after a painstaking vote counting process, which has raised the hackles of electoral watchdogs and the country’s weak opposition, who cite irregularities.

Bukele handily won re-election Feb. 4 with 84.7% of the vote. What had remained up in the air was if Bukele’s New Ideas party would be equally as successful in legislative elections. On Monday, officials announced that New Ideas won 54 seats of the 60 congressional seats. Allied parties won an additional three seats.

Despite not having the final results, the leader had already declared victory in the presidency and in the congress the night of the election, saying “El Salvador has broken all the records of all democracies in the entire history of the world.”

top 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Deceptichum 23 points 6 months ago

So he’s gonna go full dictator like he wants?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It's amazing. Afaik this guy openly rants against democracy as an colonial tool of oppression and says he wants to be dictator. The people of El Salvador apparently just don't care about democracy? 85%? Really?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

His work in eradicating gang violence was impressive, I get why the few Salvadorians who aren't behind bars would vote for him. Although I can't help but wonder about how many people might have gotten unjustly incarcerated because of how much power he's given to the police.

[–] Deceptichum 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

1.6% of the whole country is in jail, and they’re put through mass trials where no one has a chance to defend themselves.

We will never know exactly but it’s a lot, and your chance of going to jail is far higher than your chance of being killed by a gang ever was.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna get downvoted for this but imho El Salvadorans were not living a life with the gangs the country was effectively in a constant state of war and violence. yes some innocents are probably incarcerated but it pales in comparison to the number of dead innocents and the constant state of fear. The measures he took were 200% justified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, didn't know about that. Do you have any credible sources / videos?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I only remember a segment on Democracy Now: https://youtu.be/AqyHzePx3ew?t=440. It must have been an article instead (EDIT: This one: El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ boasts country would be ‘a one-party system’ after election win)

You can find more with this search

But they also reported on the "civil war" where many poor people seem to have been unjustly arrested: https://youtu.be/A4Cw0KtkzWg https://youtu.be/fvDFFRA6HmI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/AqyHzePx3ew?t=440

https://piped.video/A4Cw0KtkzWg

https://piped.video/fvDFFRA6HmI

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Winning re-election in a country where re-election is unconstitutional screams democracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But that's exactly it, he's against democracy and has openly been proud of that fact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I was specifically referring to what he said: “El Salvador has broken all the records of all democracies in the entire history of the world.”