Bukele's theater

Act 1. The president announces an unusual fact." We closed on May 10, 2023 with 0 homicides nationwide. With this, it's 365 days without homicides, a whole year." El Salvador, one of the most violent countries in the world, taken over by gang terror, achieves the unthinkable for decades. Cause for celebration? Of course. At what cost? How did you get here? Let's look at an example of the Bukele law.

We closed on May 10, 2023, with 0 homicides nationwide.

With this, it is 365 days without homicides, a whole year. pic.twitter.com/NlSqVxXdhx

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) May 11, 2023

Act 2. Five days later a police officer is murdered. The president pulls out the arsenal of Twitter hate. "The remaining gang members in our country just murdered one of our heroes. But there will not say anything the NGOs of "human rights", they only watch over the rights of criminals. Do you see why we should continue with the regime of emergency until this plague is completely over? This cowardly murder will not go unpunished. We will make them pay dearly for what they did." Shortly after, as one who does not want or can not control his hatred, he downloads again: "Let all the "human rights" NGOs know that we are going to destroy these damn murderers and their collaborators, we will put them in prison and they will never get out. We don't care about their pitiful reporting, their prepaid journalists, their puppet politicians, or their famous "international community," which never cared about our people. We will heal our country and eliminate this plague completely. Take your failed recipes elsewhere."

Let all the "human rights" NGOs know, that we are going to destroy these damn murderers and their collaborators, we will put them in prison and they will never get out.

We don't care about their pitiful reporting, their prepaid journalists, their puppet politicians, or their famous "community... https://t.co/qtBIzNdyXu

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) May 16, 2023

Act 3. Ten days later. The president, tweeter in chief of El Salvador, retweets a message from the police in which he shows the three alleged murderers of the agent, kneeling with bulletproof vests. He adds: "We promised that they would pay dearly for the murder of our hero. We destroyed their clique, we arrested their comrades, we arrested their leader, and today, we arrested the three murderers. They will never again cause terror in our country.

We promised that they would pay dearly for the murder of our hero.

We destroyed their clique, we arrested their comrades, we arrested their leader, and today, we arrested the 3 murderers.

They will never again cause terror in our country. https://t.co/s5f7zfa3Gw

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) May 27, 2023

Nayib Bukele's Twitter account is an example of how he governs the Central American country since he came to power: a strong hand to combat the violent, something that nobody would discuss if it were not for the fact that by perpetuating the regime of exception he has made and undone the country's institutionality; hatred, a lot of hatred towards those who criticize him or do not agree with what he does, especially NGOs and journalists, on whom he pours any kind of campaign to remove prejudice. And arrogance, a lot of arrogance from those who feel untouchable; He is the best valued president in all of Latin America and considered an example to follow by some of the leaders, mostly of the extreme right and opposed to any social advance, who emerge strongly in the polls of different countries. Thus, a sector of Colombian politics sees in Bukele the best antidote to Gustavo Petro; Before the new elections in Ecuador the candidates cry out for their iron hand or also in Guatemala, ungoverned by a useless political class, the solution seems to be to bukelizar the country.

Among the three previous acts, Bukele's Twitter account also has room for various dramatic, perhaps comical turns, such as his impetus to boast of the bitcoin followers who visit El Salvador or the appointment of a human rights commissioner, a Colombian expert in hacking who, in the profile of his company says: "There is no computer, hard drive, cell phone or SIM card that can resist the lawyer Andrés Guzmán Caballero who, in the best style of the famous hounds of the CSI series and through digital evidence, has clarified the darkest cases of justice in the country." What El Salvador of zero murders at the cost of anything clearly needs.