Nayib Bukele claims landslide victory and says Spanish democracy is a colonial fraud in impassioned speech to supporters

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial president, attacked Spanish colonialism and imperialism in a fiery victory speech after he won a landslide victory.

Amid claims he is turning the country into a dictatorship, he boasted to flag-waving crowds below the presidential palace that El Salvador would be the first country with “a one-party system in a democracy”.

“The entire opposition together was pulverised,” Mr Bukele, who once styled himself the “world’s coolest dictator”, told the cheering masses.

The baseball cap-wearing Mr Bukele, 42, has become vastly popular for his war on gangs, but he has also been accused of stifling the courts and silencing opposition.

In his speech he said a Spanish journalist had recently asked him why he wants to dismantle democracy.

  • some pirate@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    America had communal systems for like 30 thousand years before the Spanish came, and guess which system they had

    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      2 years ago

      Am sorry but my native American imperialistic ancestors liked annexing and conquering those beneath them and make their own empire that got annexed by the Spanish. Big fish ate small fishies before it got nommed by a shark.

    • phar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Most of them were monarchies that got destroyed by another monarchy.

      • Landsharkgun@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Most of them, sure. But don’t ignore the Iroquois Confederation or the Tlaxcalan.