El Salvador will enter into a dictatorship as of June 1, 2024, when Bukele assumes a second term that is unconstitutional.
HAVANA TIMES – Three years after setting the machinery in motion, Nayib Bukele has consummated a fraud. He had to overthrow the Supreme Court, place his own prosecutor and magistrates, ensure that both the legislature and the Court validated an unconstitutional reelection. The Supreme Electoral magistrates faced imprisonment if they opposed his candidacy, open voting abroad without further controls, and illegally suffocate the opposition.
In the final stretch towards the polls, Bukele, his vice presidential candidate, candidates for deputies, and mayors of his Nuevas Ideas party used state funds for campaigning. From distributing food packages to using state facilities and institutional communication channels in the service of the Governing party. He illegally denied payment of political debt to the opposition and warned businesspeople not to support another party.
It was not necessary for him to do almost any of the latter. His popularity is so high, and the opposition is so lacking in resources as well as credibility, that no one doubted that his candidacy, however unconstitutional, would win the majority vote. Still, he activated all the mechanisms of fraud because that is the nature of the Bukele clan. Not to concede even a single space for another political expression other than his own, even if they had to violate the Constitution, laws
