City of Guatemala – While the bid administration criticized the Salvadoranian President Nayib Bukeles with greatly armed government style, the Trump government sees him as its new best friend in Latin America.
Bukele made a name for himself by arresting tens of thousands of alleged gang members, which contributed to reducing the murder quota in the country.
More than 1% of the national population have now been detained – including children – and the conditions are often cruel, say human rights activists say that he has suspended civil rights and carried out massive tows that become criminal and innocent.
When America's top diplomat, former senator Marco Rubio, went on his opening trip as Foreign Minister in Latin America this week, he praised the 43-year-old El Salvador leader of El Salvador.
And Bukele answered in kind.
This week he offered to move Trump immigrants who are locked up in adhesive centers in El Salvador in the USA, which the administration described as a “outsourcing” application and penalty for crimes.
But Bukele didn't stop here. He continued that he would also take convicted criminals who are the US citizens.
“We are ready to include only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) in our Megabonison for a fee,” Bukele wrote about X. Sustainably. “
Trump and billionaire Elon Musk quickly joined Rubio to judge what a “good idea” the plan was. Trump said that he hadn't thought that it would cost too much compared to the payment of private US workers to guide prisons. At first nobody mentioned a lot that it is illegal to deport US citizens.
“We are deeply grateful,” said Rubio reporters in San Salvador in comments. “It's just another sign of what an incredible friend we have in President Bukele and the Salvadora.”
He praised the “unprecedented generosity” of such a offer, even when he also expressed approval for bukeles action against gangs.
Later, television recordings showed the two men in Bukele's green Lakeside men's house, walk down the gentle hill and waved on boats on the water.
Bukele likes to call himself the coolest dictator in the world. He wore his usual planes, chinos and an unable to shirt. Rubio in a blue suit tried casually and shot a tie.
Rubio has long been an admirer of Bukele, whom he calls a friend. The relationship is new for Trump and may have accelerated after Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson and Matt Gaetz were the second inauguration at Bukele's last year.
In this respect there is mutual benefit, a way for Trump, in the glow of a popular leader to sunbathe, which was extremely hard in the crime and is admired by some other presidents of the region.
For Bukele, he can vaccinate against Trump's potential anger by walking overboard with gestures of collaboration and avoiding the tariffs and other sanctions with which a number of other countries are faced.
“Bukele has absolute power in El Salvador, shows toughness … without the concern for democratic norms or human rights, … and Trump admires” concentrates on Latin America. “They feed each other and eliminate both restrictions on the power of the executive.”
The United States and El Salvador shared a long, controversial story, the most dramatic era is the Salvadorical Civil War.
More than 75,000 people in a country with 5 million walls from 1980 to 192 in the struggle between the right-wing government supported by the United States on the one hand and Cuban left guerrillas. The then US President Reagan saw the fight as a crusade against the Soviet-inspired communism, while the left saw him as the search for justice for the country's arms.
The war was shaped by atrocities, including the murder by US soldiers from six Jesuit priests, her housekeeper and daughter in 1989.
The war made tens of thousands of Salvadorans to consolidate Los Angeles-Die connections through well-established communities in US cities.
Bukele's violations of human rights and deposits of democracy became increasingly clearer in the months after his first elections in 2019.
This made it possible for him to develop an unconstitutional run for a second term that he had accepted last year.
The choir of international criticism did not stop.
“We have documented dozens of arbitrary arrests from children, boys and girls. Many arrests seem to be based on the appearance of the prisoners or anonymous symptoms and do not prove on credible. ” He quoted the police that they had odds to arrest a certain number of people a day.
The Biden administration was critical of Bukele and his actions early on and raised some limited sanctions against some civil servants. But finally Biden's people gave up and admitted that they had to work with bubils.
Rubio Schwor to bring the alliance further and to say that “allies” have to be treated better. He mentioned no human rights.
“We are uniform and keep so many things together,” said Rubio when he left San Salvador.