José Miguel Vivanco, director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch, says that with the new Biden government, President Bukele will end the party, as he has been approved by the government of Donald Trump and the ambassador of the United States to the country.
José Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division, says President Nayib Bukele’s party is about to end when Joe Biden’s new government enters on January 20. during the Donald Trump administration and with the silence, and in some cases the applause, of the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Ronald Johnson, the president felt he had a free letter to “keep doing and undoing.”
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 sweep with democratic institutions as he has been doing.
As for the upcoming elections, he says he expects them to be conducted with transparency, freedom and credibility.
READ ALSO: A Washington center blames Bukele for calling the Peace Accords a “business”
“We will continue to observe very closely the situation of the Savior because it is necessary to prevent the Savior from becoming a dictatorship. It is a democracy, I insist, which has a leader like Bukele, but which so far has shown great consistency in its democratic institutions in defense of the values that protect the political Constitution, ”says Vivanco.
He believes that President Bukele has taken advantage of the pandemic to concentrate power and weaken the burdens and brakes that democracy has in El Salvador, and has laughed at the rulings of the Constitutional Court where the pandemic has come as a ring on the finger.
That in El Salvador, unlike Nicaragua, there is no dictatorship, even though President Bukele is making extraordinary efforts to transform the country into his personal dictatorship.
“The Savior’s surprise is that despite being a young democracy, it has shown that it has an independent judiciary, with judges of the supreme court who have had the courage and courage and integrity to defend the Constitution with all their might.” , says Vivanco.
CONTINUE READING: If Bukele does not publish the transitional law to contain the pandemic this Wednesday, the Assembly will
He adds that there are also political parties, authorities such as the Prosecutor’s Office that could be stronger and more active, but that have significant degrees of autonomy.
“I would like it to be much more active in the defense, in the investigation of crimes of abuse committed by the state, not only in human rights but also in areas such as corruption,” said the human rights defender.
He explains that in El Salvador there is a very strong society, a private sector that is active and defends the values of an open and democratic society.
“I think Mr. Bukele has been hard hit by the election of Biden. Biden knows Central America very well and is very well advised with regard to the fragility of the democratic system and the need to strengthen democratic institutions especially. in Central America and in particular in El Salvador, “says Vivanco.