El Salvador: Record fall in homicides and emigration
El Salvador has reduced homicides by 92% since 2015, giving Bukele the support of 9 out of 10 Salvadorans according to all polls. Additionally, the number of Salvadorans illegally crossing the US-Mexico border has fallen by 44% in the past six months, proving that more security means less emigration. To make one of the most violent countries in the world the safest in America, including the United States and Canada, Bukele has put 68,000 gang members, more than 1% of the population, behind bars. Responding to allegations of human rights violations against prisoners during a cabinet meeting, Bukele said, “Yes, they will have human rights too, but the human rights of honest people are more important.” NGOs out after. Out of Cynthia Viteriawho was mayor of Guayaquil until May, a Jan topicformer French Legion and presidential candidate in Ecuador, from Guatemala to the mayor of Medellín in Colombia (Petro instead compared El Salvador’s prisons to concentration camps) to Honduran President Xiomara Castro, who despite her pro-Chinese sentiments and so on on the left he literally mimics what Bukele did.
Guatemala: Supreme Court rejects all appeals
Guatemala’s Supreme Court yesterday gave the green light for the official announcement of the results of the June 25 elections, after declaring that the actions of the right-wing political parties, which had called for the suspension of the electoral process, “will not go ahead”. Well the Supreme Electoral Court must make the results official and organize the voting for the presidential elections scheduled for August 20. Yesterday, the President of the Electoral Court, Irma Palencia, said the results would be confirmed this week, as Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei warned electoral authorities to meet the August 20 deadline. In short, all the alerts from Blinken, the Washington Post, and the New York Times disappeared in about ten days, just enough time to recount the votes.
Paolo Manzo, July 12, 2023
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