BUKELE

🇸🇻 Bukele, El Salvador's president since 2019, has transformed the country's image from the world's murder capital to one of the safest in the Americas through aggressive anti-gang policies. His methods, including mass arrests, have sparked debate over human rights.

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Transcript

Bukele

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Ok, I am going to wax political for a moment.  I don’t do it often, and most times, it is with a good measure of sardonic humor.  But it doesn’t solve everything.  It may make life better.  Or easier.  Or worse, frankly.  

But let’s go analog for a moment.

I want to read for you a clip from a speech from Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador.  His dad, an advertising agency owner, and Nayib, who was following in his fathers footsteps, decided to take a different route … not advertising for political parties, but becoming a politician all by himself.

The clip is short of four minutes, but really demonstrates not just vision or leadership, but how something long considered a country of self immolation and verboten by foreigners for their own well-being, can turn a country around.  

Not easy, but with vision and leadership, it shows what CAN be done.  That potential can be realized with the right boat captain.

I have left the link below for the Youtube click, but now it is in Spanish, which is why I am reading the piece to you … for my English speaking listeners.  Click the link and you can read the transcription, but I wanted to read it to you, as it gives a degree of moral clarity that can be hard to find, even when seeking that very thing.

I remember reading about the strength of the people of Guatemala when I was in college, in a course I had interest in, about how bloody strong the people were and the atrocities that happened on the regular.

And I don’t think AI has any answer for this sort of thing.  Human wretchedness.

So for some words of hope, I leave you with an analog remainder of our own flesh and blood and hope.

So here you go, the words of Nayib Bukele.

(speech)

The power of the state must be used, not to violate human rights, but to guarantee the human rights of those people whose rights are never defended.  

They say that all human rights carry the same weight.  That’s not true.  The most important human right is the right to life.

All other rights are worthless if there is no right to life.

Or they are no longer applicable.

I can’t have freedom of movement if I am dead.

El Salvador had other wars against the gangs before our administration.  

There were clashes between the government and the gangs.  Although later we found out that there was more to the story.  Because there were intense conflicts.  On many occasions the police, who even before our administration, had noble members, willing to fight for their country.  

They would go an arrest 100 gang members in one day.  Truckloads full, with tattoos even on their eyelids, and they would take them to jail.  Two or three days later, 99 set free.

Then the gang members, upon their release, would come to kill the families who had arrested them.

And that launched a vicious cycle that would be impossible to escape, unless the entire society decided to lend its support to the entire plan.

And the full plan doesn’t just entail going out and arresting criminals. It means having the criminals stay in prison.

Because we have done that, some people have said that we are violating the human rights of criminals.  

That’s not true.

All criminals have human rights.  All of them.  There isn’t a single criminal in this world that doesn’t have human rights.  All of the criminals have rights.  Because they are human beings.  That is not up for discussion. 

What I am saying is, which rights are in conflict with each other?  

A few days ago, I saw the case of a woman who makes chocolate bars.  But she has no hands.  Because her gang member's nephews cut her hands off … of their own aunt … because she didn’t pay the extortion money, and left their aunt to live with no hands, because she didn’t pay the extortion money.

And the woman,  her nephews now in prison, but this woman has lost her hands.  And she makes chocolate bars to make ends meet. 

Nobody stood up for this woman. Nobody said: “What about this woman’s rights?”  Nobody defended her. All these organizations, all these politicians, who now make such a fuss about the rights of criminals, said nothing of her.  Nor about the others who suffered even worse.  Rapes, murders … they would decapitate people to send a message, just like what is happening in other countries right now.  They cut off someone’s head and leave the head out as a warning to others. Just like in the middle ages, when they put heads on pikes.

In our countries, they cut off the head and leave it out. 

Nobody spoke up for the human rights of the people who were murdered, decapitated, of the woman who was raped, of the businesses of the people who were extorted lost their property, of the Salvadorans who couldn’t leave their homes.

They couldn’t do something as simple as playing soccer in the street or going to the park.  There were communities that had a soccer field, but the children had never been there, because the field was off limits to them, prohibited by the gangs. Nobody spoke up about the human rights of those children.

And when we decided to arrest the ones who were behind this, that’s when people spoke up to defend the rights of the criminals.

They do have rights, but not more rights than everyone else. 

… more later …

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