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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Update on Bukele, not Kilmar. The popular Bukele, who once called himself the "world's coolest dictator," is consolidating his power and paving the way to being a permanent ruler.

There's a warning here for all of us about the danger of giving too much political power to one individual.

El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection and extends terms to 6 years

The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years,” the AP reports.

Observers have worried that Bukele had a plan to consolidate power since at least 2021, when a newly elected Congress with a strong governing party majority voted to remove the magistrates of the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court. Those justices had been seen as the last check on the popular president.
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-reelection-f9efd1a08d3c9de2f886f7b911b9417d?taid=688c27a1aafb050001832bd5[/quote]

The real moral of the story is that people ultimately will choose living safely under a dictator than living freely and not being able to leave their houses because of the very high chance that they could be murdered, kidnapped, raped, robbed, or extorted.

Gangs controlled El Salvador.  Here is a news article from 2015 about a gang deciding to shut down the bus system to show how powerful they were;

Gunmen boarded a bus near the Salvadoran capital and opened fire on its driver and passengers on Wednesday, killing four people including the driver, and wounding four others a week after a string of attacks brought bus service in the country to a halt.

Nine drivers on commuter bus routes in El Salvador have now been killed in a bus “strike” enforced by a faction of the powerful 18th Street gang and which has resulted in an estimated $60 million in losses for the country’s economy.

Word began spreading on the weekend of July 25 that the 18th Street gang was forcibly shutting down bus operations country-wide. Bus drivers were ordered to “strike,” and any driver who went to work risked being killed.

Another article explains that bus drivers who don’t pay extortion fees are also murdered.  Since 2006, when attacks on bus drivers surged, 625 have been murdered, according to statistics kept by the industry — including 29 in the first quarter of this year alone.

'I have gone to crime scenes of the murders of fellow drivers. Some of them have been killed for one dollar, because they had the bad luck that they had no money on them at that moment,' Nuila told IPS as he drove along the streets of San Salvador.

There was another bus attack where gangs were feeding and gang members ran onto a bus. Rival gang members poured gas over the bus and set it in fire then shot the passengers who had nothing to do with the gangs as they tried to flee through the windows. 19 people died.

So who wouldn’t vote for Bukele? People are safe to live their lives. Not many in El Salvador care about the conditions in CECOT because they spent so many years being terrorized by gangs.

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If it's as simple and clear as you say, why won't Bukele admit that he made deals with the gang leaders? that he released the absolute worst of the rapists and murderers and allowed them to continue to commit massacres? that he thought up the whole idea of allowing the US to imprison "terrorists" in El Salvador, a deal that he quickly regretted when he realized the Venezuelans were not gang members, just to get back one of the MS-13 gang members who was about to tell the world what a cycnical corrupt man he is?

I mean, if the ends justify the means as you so clearly believe, why is he still denying something everybody knows about?

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The way Bukele governs El Salvador and what he admits or does not admit is not up to you to decide. In June of 2025 El Pais, a respected newspaper from Spain, reported:

One of the most reliable opinion polls in the Central American country gave him an approval rating of 8.5 out of 10.
According to the poll released by LPG Datos, the polling firm of La Prensa Gráfica, Bukele ended his sixth year in power with the approval of 85.2% of the population, his main achievement being the dismantling of criminal gangs and the historic reduction of the homicide rate. Since coming to power in 2019, Bukele has maintained an approval rating above 80%. This is unique in Latin American politics, which is accustomed to leaders’ popularity declining over time.

Biden's popularity was between 36% and 57%.
Trump's popularity has been this term between between 47 and 37%.
Gallop historic reports indicate the average popularity of recent US presidents is nowhere near as high.

Dates in office	Average approval rating.                %
Harry Truman	April 1945-January 1953	          45.4
Dwight Eisenhower	January 1953-January 1961  65.0
John Kennedy	January 1961-November 1963	   70.1
Lyndon Johnson	November 1963-January 1969	   55.1
Richard Nixon	January 1969-August 1974	           49.0
Gerald Ford	August 1974-January 1977	          47.2
Jimmy Carter	January 1977-January 1981	   45.5
Ronald Reagan	January 1981-January 1989	   52.8
George H.W. Bush	January 1989-January 1993.   60.9
Bill Clinton	January 1993-January 2001	           55.1
George W. Bush	January 2001-January 2009	   49.4
Barack Obama	January 2009-January 2017	  47.9
Donald Trump	January 2017-January 2021	  41.1
Joe Biden	January 2021-January 2025	          42.2

So obviously how Bukele governs is working for EL Salvadorans not only in El Salvador but also Salvadorans in the United States. Guess which group of migrants from what country still have Temporary Protective Status (TPS) in the US at least until 2026 and can still send remittances to El Salvador? Hmm.

I'll give you a hint:
Venezuela Nicaragua, Syria, Honduras TPS all ending in September 2025

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