Bukele, who arrived at the Executive in 2019 and 2024 – year in which he fulfilled the established five -year period of government -, It was against the Constitution When looking for and achieving re -election.
On the night of June 1, Bukele delivered a speech in a solemn session at the National Theater for the First year of his second termmarked by his alliance with Donald Trump in the deportation policy of migrants and the offensive against humanitarian groups.
The President He accused the Oenegés of his country to defend gang members and political activism, and whipped international organizations and the press for joining what he called an “organized attack” against his government.
“Do you know what? I am careful to be called dictator. I prefer that they call me dictator to see how Salvadorans kill in the streets”, He said, remembering that he is criticized for his hard hand security policy.
According to official data, the percentage of General poverty went from 22.8% to 27.2% of households.
Bukele, 43, governs with almost absolute power after being re -elected with 85% popular support For its antipondilla war, which reduced violence in the country to historical minimums with an exception regime that allows mass arrests without court order.
The Salvadoran Presidency takes up the results of a survey by the CID Gallup consultant published on May 28 on the approval to Bukele’s management.
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The most prestigious opposition survey.
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– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) June 2, 2025
His government faces strong criticism for Arrest on May 18 by Ruth Lópezlawyer of the Cristosal NGO, which investigated alleged cases of state corruption, assisted victims of the exception regime and families of 252 Venezuelans deported by Washington and prisoners in El Salvador.
“They say that we imprison human rights defenders, dissidents, opponents of the regime (…). They cannot be touched. Any corrupt opponent who takes to jail is a chased politician. Working in an NGO Now it is synonymous with impunity”, Ironized.
Defenders of “murderers”
The Prosecutor’s Office accused López having committed a peculation when she was an advisor to the Electoral Court a decade ago, but local and international organizations – as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch – denounced a strategy to silence critical voices and stop the defense of human rights.
In May, two activists who supported a protest of peasants were also arrested and, in February, the leader of the Human and Community Rights Defense Unit (UNIDHC), Fidel Zavala, accused of bangs with gang.
According to the Oenegés, Bukele uses against their critics or adversaries the exception regime imposed three years ago and for which 86 thousand people accused of gang members or accomplices have been arrested.
The oenegés, strong criticism of the state of exception, say that some 400 people have died in prison and that there are thousands of innocent detained.
He Exception regime has been extended 39 times for periods of 30 days by the Legislative Assembly, dominated by the official party New Ideas (Ni).
“The supposed defenders of democracy (…) what we really want is to be unable to punish the murderers On behalf of an ideal human rights that is nothing more than the rights of criminals, ”said Bukele.
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– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) June 2, 2025
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According to the ruler, there were some “200 thousand Salvadorans killed by gangs” In more than 30 years that sowed terror in the country.
In his speech, he also defended the Foreign Agents Law, similar to that of Russia and Nicaragua, that forces the Oenegés to register in a registry and pay a 30% tax they receive.
Deported “criminals”
Trump’s key partner in his anti -immigrant policy, Bukele received in March and He imprisoned 252 Venezuelans in his megacárcel and 36 Salvadorans that the United States deported when accused, without evidence, of criminals.
In the National Theater, Bukele criticized Democratic congressmen who have traveled to El Salvador to ask to see the detainees, particularly the Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego, deported “by mistake” despite the fact that he had legal protection.
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“Foreign congressmen come to play the doors of prisons to demand that we release criminals. What right do you feel? It is always the self -proclaimed defenders of democracy who do not believe in our democracy, ”said Bukele.
Publicist lover of effect blows, deployed a whole production device to record and spread through social networks the entry of deportees, with shaved and chained hair, to the center of confinement of terrorism (CECOT).
Indicated by his autocrat critics, Bukele’s re -election is questioned because, despite being constitutionally prohibited, It was allowed by a ruling of related judges.
“In this first year of the second unconstitutional mandate there is an authoritarian escalation. It is the consolidation of the dictatorship,” Ingrid Escobar, director of the Oenegé Humanitarian Legal Socori, told AFP.