José Miguel Vivanco, director of the American Division of Human Rights Watch, says that with the new Biden government, the party will end for President Bukele, since it was approved by the government of Donald Trump and the US Ambassador to the country.
José Miguel Vivanco, director of the American Division of Human Rights Watch, claims that President Nayib Bukele will end the party when Joe Biden’s new government enters on January 20, regarding the fact that during Donald Trump’s government and with silence and, in some cases, applause, to the president of the United States in El Salvador, Ronald Johnson, the president felt that he had a free hand to “continue to do and undo.”
The human rights defender points out that, with the control of Democrats in the House and Senate, it will be possible to put effective brakes on President Bukele so that he does not continue to destroy democratic institutions as he did.
As for the next elections, he says he hopes they will be conducted with transparency, freedom and credibility.
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“We will continue to monitor the situation in El Salvador closely, because we must prevent El Salvador from becoming a dictatorship. It is a democracy, I insist, that has a caudillo like Bukele, but so far it has demonstrated a great consistency in its democratic institutions in defending the values that protect the political Constitution “, says Vivanco.
He believes that President Bukele took advantage of the pandemic to concentrate power and weaken the difficulties and constraints of democracy in El Salvador, in addition to laughing at the rulings of the Constitutional Chamber, where the pandemic has become a ring on his finger.
That in El Salvador, unlike Nicaragua, there is no dictatorship, despite the fact that President Bukele is making extraordinary efforts to turn the country into his personal dictatorship.
“El Salvador’s surprise is that, despite being a young democracy, it has shown that it has an independent judiciary, with Supreme Court magistrates who have had the courage, courage and integrity to defend the Constitution,” says Vivanco.
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He adds that there are also political parties, authorities such as the Prosecutor’s Office that could be stronger and more active, but which have significant degrees of autonomy.
“I would like to be much more active in defense, in investigating crimes of abuse committed by the state, not only in the field of human rights, but also in areas such as corruption,” says the human rights defender.
It is said that in El Salvador there is a very strong society, a private sector that is active and that defends the values of an open and democratic society.
“I think the track became difficult for Mr. Bukele with Biden’s choice. Biden knows Central America very well and is very well advised on the fragility of the democratic system and the need to strengthen democratic institutions, especially in Central America and especially in El Salvador, ”says Vivanco.