President Nayib Bukele lashed out at certain sectors for his first year of re-election

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Last Sunday marked the first year of the unconstitutional reelection of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. What should have been a report on his administration turned into a speech of laments and attacks on journalists, NGOs and political opponents. From El Salvador, our correspondent, Roberto Hugo Preza, has the different reactions of the civil society. teleSUR

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00:00And last Sunday marked the first year of the unconstitutional re-election of Salvadoran

00:05President Nayib Bukele, which would have been a report on his administration turning to

00:08a speech of laments and attacks on journalists, NGOs, and political opponents.

00:13From Salvador, our correspondent Roberto will press us with the details.

00:22After six years as president and the first year of his questioned re-election, Nayib

00:27Bukele gave a speech of more than an hour at the National Theatre, during which time he

00:32lashed out at those he considers opponents and those who describe his actions as anti-democratic

00:38and dictatorial.

00:41I personally have been called a dictator, in all the media they have wanted, and been able

00:46to, from Salvadoran pamphlets to international pamphlets, the most prestigious ones.

00:51I don't care if they call me dictator.

00:53The ruler made it clear that for him, transparency, rule of law, democracy, and human rights are

01:05just terms to subjugate the people.

01:11He declared himself dictator, he assumed it, he decides who gets out of jail, and who doesn't,

01:18he is the judicial body, he said that they will remain in prison, including the thousands

01:23of victims of the regime of exception that he himself recognizes, that he has spoken of

01:287,000 innocent prisoners, and many threats to NGOs, to popular organizations, to people

01:35who defend human rights, I feel it as worried and violent, it is very dangerous what is being

01:40raised in the country.

01:41Bukil also lashed out at independent media, journalists, and non-governmental organizations,

01:53whom he accused of responding to a globalist agenda.

02:00The government is trying to make the population believe that this is a plot by all the possible

02:05means, when what is really happening is that the evidence of a dictatorship in El Salvador

02:10is visible to the whole world, to the independent press of the whole world, and that is what

02:15is being told.

02:16This truth is very uncomfortable for a government, a government that lives on propaganda and publicity.

02:23The truth is pushing Bukil further and further into a corner.

02:26The opposition regrets that in his speech he did not refer to the major problems affecting

02:39Salvedrans, such as the high cost of living, unemployment, layoffs of public employees, corruption

02:45and lack of medicines.

02:47Bukil also did not talk about mining, and the more than 250 Venezuelans imprisoned in

02:52Seked.

02:53It is precisely because these are the issues, that make it complicated.

03:00One, because it is the environmental deterioration, the right to clean water for our generations,

03:07two, is the violation of international treaties, violation of human rights.

03:19Bukil affirmed that the emergency regime has transformed the country into the safest in

03:23the continent and that it will continue despite criticism from international organizations

03:28and human rights defenders.

03:30Roberto Hugo Presa, Telesur, El Salvador.

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