So he’s gonna go full dictator like he wants?
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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?
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.
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.
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.
Interesting, didn't know about that. Do you have any credible sources / videos?
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)
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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.
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Winning re-election in a country where re-election is unconstitutional screams democracy.
But that's exactly it, he's against democracy and has openly been proud of that fact.
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.”