WATCH: El Salvador President Addresses Soldiers Battling Gang Violence, Has An Ominous Word For America

Ben ZeisloftMarch 1, 2023

Video Salvadoran The video of President Nayib Buke addressing soldiers charged with fighting rampant gang activity has gone viral on social media. This is as the tiny Latin American nation seeks control over violent extremism. crime.

The murder rate in El Salvador decreased by 56.8% last year after the government launched an operation against MS-13, a gang that is notorious for its brutal killings and abuse of children. Salvadoran authorities have arrested 64,000 suspected members of gangs in less than a year.

Bukele shared an earlier a Video On social media, you can see 2,000 gang members with shaved heads. They were wearing no clothes other than identical white shorts. The guards packed them into buses and they transported them to a new supermax prison. Bukele, who took office in 2019, shared additional footage. Speech He delivered units of Salvadoran soldiers in battle gear to them, and placed them in large fields. He stressed the government’s responsibility in protecting innocents.

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— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 28, 2023

“For eight months, we have been fighting this war against the gangs. And thank God, we are winning. This is a very surprising victory that is nearly within our grasp. Let it be clear that the glory is for God,” Bukele stated. “We humans are lucky to be instruments of God, all of us, to bring peace, liberty, and happiness to the Salvadoran people.”

Bukele praised the young soldiers for their embrace of the virtues that have historically made prosperous countries. “Peace is built with hard work, with sweat, with effort, and with the bravery that you and your brothers in the police have,” He went on. “It is worth risking your life for that purpose that is more important than yourself alone. Values such as bravery, such as courage, such as strength, discipline, patriotism, honor, loyalty, and love for your fellow man.”

Official appeared to compare El Salvador’s rise amid criminality crackdown with America’s decline, in which major cities are becoming increasingly gentrified. Be characterized by violence. Video of an organised smash-and-grab robberiesBrazen, but also shrewd Murders Social media is full of attacks on innocent Americans living in urban areas. El Salvador has received international attention. Report The Marshall Project found that the United States had solved less than half of all homicides by 2020. This is a significant decline from the 1970s when 70% were solved.

“These are the fundamental values for human society, but these values are increasingly scarce in the world. If you watch the international news, you will see how the most important values for human beings, such as honor, loyalty, bravery, courage, and love for your fellow man, are precisely the values that we are losing with each passing day,” Bukele stated. “And that is why you can see how societies that seemed to have won, now are degrading, as they are losing the values that made them great. These values were probably not strong in this land, and were strong in other lands. And that is why those lands grew and became great. But they are losing those values now.”

Although the Bukele administration is still very popular, it has not been reported that they have lost any of their popularity. remained His government’s authoritarian tendencies are constantly criticized as they have been consistently high.