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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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[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I had to find out how accurate that quote was, since everyone who writes about this guy mentions the coolest dictator thing.

He did write that, in Spanish, on his Twitter bio.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"The coolest dictator of the world globally"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Del mundo mundial" on Spanish is a common phrase (mostly used by children) to say "of the world". If you want to translate literally, it would be more like "of the worldly world".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

So same sentiment as "in the whole wide world" maybe?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

At least he knows he's not the coolest in the universe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ppl have no sense of irony anymore.

He was first called dictator, this is his humoristic response. Wake up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago