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Nayib Bukele claims landslide victory and says Spanish democracy is a colonial fraud in impassioned speech to supporters

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial president, attacked Spanish colonialism and imperialism in a fiery victory speech after he won a landslide victory.

Amid claims he is turning the country into a dictatorship, he boasted to flag-waving crowds below the presidential palace that El Salvador would be the first country with “a one-party system in a democracy”.

“The entire opposition together was pulverised,” Mr Bukele, who once styled himself the “world’s coolest dictator”, told the cheering masses.

The baseball cap-wearing Mr Bukele, 42, has become vastly popular for his war on gangs, but he has also been accused of stifling the courts and silencing opposition.

In his speech he said a Spanish journalist had recently asked him why he wants to dismantle democracy.

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[-] selffish@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This whole "democracy is colonialism" stuff needs to end lol

[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 7 months ago

America had communal systems for like 30 thousand years before the Spanish came, and guess which system they had

[-] phar@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Most of them were monarchies that got destroyed by another monarchy.

[-] Landsharkgun@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Most of them, sure. But don't ignore the Iroquois Confederation or the Tlaxcalan.

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