I am very sorry but this article is extremely flippant. It doesn’t touch on the devastation that his politics have done on the poorest communities in Salvador. Here is an article on what this “cool dictatorship” actually has done to very real people. We can’t lament mass incarceration for our own communities and applaud it in places we don’t live in. https://elfaro.net/en/202411/el_salvador/27636/The-Many-Deaths-of-Juan-Sa%C3%BAl.htm
Thanks for sharing this and pointing out such an important perspective. You’re absolutely right, what Bukele’s policies have done to the poorest communities in El Salvador is something that has to be talked about. We can’t call out mass incarceration when it happens in our own backyards and then ignore it elsewhere. That’s just not right.
What you’re saying here definitely needs to be told, and honestly, I may follow this up with a Part 2 focusing on exactly that. But just to clarify, that wasn’t what I was aiming to address in the piece, it was more about looking at how Bukele has shaped his image and how he’s perceived on a global stage.
I am very sorry but this article is extremely flippant. It doesn’t touch on the devastation that his politics have done on the poorest communities in Salvador. Here is an article on what this “cool dictatorship” actually has done to very real people. We can’t lament mass incarceration for our own communities and applaud it in places we don’t live in. https://elfaro.net/en/202411/el_salvador/27636/The-Many-Deaths-of-Juan-Sa%C3%BAl.htm
Thanks for sharing this and pointing out such an important perspective. You’re absolutely right, what Bukele’s policies have done to the poorest communities in El Salvador is something that has to be talked about. We can’t call out mass incarceration when it happens in our own backyards and then ignore it elsewhere. That’s just not right.
What you’re saying here definitely needs to be told, and honestly, I may follow this up with a Part 2 focusing on exactly that. But just to clarify, that wasn’t what I was aiming to address in the piece, it was more about looking at how Bukele has shaped his image and how he’s perceived on a global stage.