El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is a millennial social media sensation, who has ruled with an iron fist over the last year, instituting a state of exception and locking up 65,000 suspected gang members. For much of the country, his policies have been an overwhelming success, slashing crime rates like never seen. But, thousands of family members of the detained say their loved ones are innocent. On May 1, they led a huge International Workers Day march against the government. Their stories, and the signs they carry, are eerily reminiscent. In the 1970s and 80s, thirty thousand innocent civilians were detained, disappeared and murdered during El Salvador’s armed internal conflict and under brutal US-backed authoritarian regimes. Today, many fear the return of dictatorship.
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This is a real leader
There is no dictorship in El Salvador. Our president has put order and exercise the current laws. The family members of the gang members now in prison are the ones who are unhappy about the situation. This is what we needed.
Outside countries such as the US doesn’t want El Salvador to flourish. The US is the reason why many countries are down bad
Bukele best president😊ðŸ‘
Cry me a river. Here in Mexico the mother and family always come cryimg inocence for their criminal members killed
Dictator with a 91% approval rate
Family.of gangster protest
Super! Que bueno saber que el Presidente esta haciendo las cosas bien!
El Salvador is safer than San Francisco 😂😂
Damn, imagine getting arrested and not having access tona fair trial…..2% of the population is behind bars 😞…..its good toncrack down on violence but at least give rhem a fair trial….this can go many ways…
I am sure some of them may be lock up my mistakes. But why do they always show photos of criminals when they were in elementary school? I am sure the government is doing their job to proof their innocence. El Salvador is a lot safer than the USA now.
UNITED NATION, IMF, "WEST COUNTRY" , HUMAN RIGHT ORGANIZATION SECRETLY WANTING SMALL COUNTRIES OR EVEN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO REMAIN IN CONFLICT AND POVERTY SO THAT THEY CAN EASILY CONTROL AND OBSERVE THEIR NEW WORLD ORDER AGENDA!!!
Los unicos que protestan son los Padres de pandilleros!
Dictatorship? What a joke. What else could be done to rid a country of “lacras.â€
Ley y orden! Presos esos liberales tambien que de inocentes no tienen nada
This probably are the gangs members family who are probably corrupt as they are
This people make no sense .. I bet when the gangs members where beheading innocent people no body was protesting and asking for human rights in the street and against the president … if you son was hanging out with wrong people even if he was not part of the gang he still part of it cuz he hanging out with criminals if the police don’t get you the criminals will .
I love bukele best president of Latin America â¤ï¸
Brazil needs a president like Bukele
What a dumb headline. He’s been doing the best and you guys are trying to make it sound bad.
How about, return to FREEDOM!
Fact:
"EVERY FAMILY will say their son/daughter is INNOCENT, even they KNOW (or don't know) that he/she is CRIMINAL."
ONLY 1% is doing that rally, ad the 99% LOVE BUKELE, period.
Bukele is the best and the world needs him now.
Se ve que no te mataron a nadie ni extorsionaron
If there is a dictatorship in the country they can't protest the government at all. The protesters are also criminals too
Bien presidente en El Salvador! ðŸ‘🽠ðŸ‘🽠ðŸ‘ðŸ½
Nayib Bukele is what the USA want Joe Biden to be. Instead, Joe is a stupid idiot.
Much love to El Salvador from the Philippines.
Bukele a dictatorship??????? No. Bukele is a Savior,,,, God Bless Bukele. Viva Bukele,,,, Presidente para Nuestra Union Americana.
You can go. On the street of El Salvador. And ask random people. How safe we feel
And not. We're not under a regime or a dictator. Very, very safe towns, cities, and the whole country
BUKELE2024🦾