Staff Reports
El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, has been making big waves in the world of politics, and for good reason! The man has taken El Salvador from the clutches of being the “murder capital of the world” to now being one of the safest places in the Americas. Talk about a major turnaround! And how did he do it, you ask? Well, by cracking down on those pesky gang members that have been wreaking havoc in the country. Bukele has been rounding up these troublemakers left and right, and the people of El Salvador have given him a huge pat on the back by re-electing him in a landslide victory.
Now, of course, those Western progressives just can’t help but stick their noses in where they don’t belong, and they’ve been clucking their tongues at Bukele’s methods, saying he’s not being all lovey-dovey with the gang members. But Bukele isn’t about to take that sitting down. When a BBC reporter tried to call him out on it, Bukele set the record straight. He told the reporter that the “recipes” those Western nations have been shoving at El Salvador just haven’t cut the mustard. What works in other places might as well be a recipe for disaster in El Salvador, and Bukele isn’t having any of it.
El Salvador's Bukele Has the Perfect Response to a BBC Reporter Concerned About His Crackdown on Crime
https://t.co/GlgvhvTQ20— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 22, 2024
And what about all these innocent people getting caught up in the mix, you ask? Bukele’s got an answer for that too! He pointed out that every country’s police force makes a few oopsies, but that’s what the judicial system is for. He even mentioned that El Salvador has been letting go of folks who were wrongly imprisoned, so there, take that! Bukele’s not one to mince words, and he made it clear that what works for the rest of the world just doesn’t cut it in El Salvador.
So, the next time those Western critics start yapping about Bukele’s methods, maybe they should take a step back and realize that El Salvador ain’t like anywhere else. Bukele’s got a point when he says, “You have your own system. We don’t tell you that you shouldn’t have a Monarchy…Why? Because It’s your country, you can do whatever you want with it, but suddenly we have to do what you want to do with our country…” El Salvador’s government knows what it’s doing, and they’ve got the results to prove it – turning the most dangerous place in the world into the safest in the Western Hemisphere ain’t no small feat!
