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A Postscript to the Bukele Bio* re the Misinformation Broadcast by "Democracy Now!"

Its unfortunate that Democracy Now, a leading news source for Progressives in the US, continually misinforms the World about Nayib Bukele and the politics of El Salvador.*

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For instance, in the broadcast of June 5, 2024, Amy Goodman announced AS NEWS that Bukele’s February 4th re-election is “illegitimate.” She took it upon herself to proclaim that the former constitutional one-term limit had not been legally revised. 

But if she really understood “democracy,” then she would know that “Legitimacy” depends on the Consent of the Governed.

Over 80% of the voters have ratified the constitutional changes Bukele has made in El Salvador by re-electing him to a second term.

Let’s not forget, FDR was re-elected to a FOURTH term. Would liberal Amy call him a “dictator”? Not likely.

She, and co-host Juan Gonzalez, seem to think that Bukele violated the “Human Rights” of some Salvadorians by rounding up everyone with tattoos on their neck and face. But the government  has procedures for sorting out the truly innocent. And now the masses can walk freely and safely on the streets.

Democracy Now is giving the impression that the gangbangers Bukele busted have more human rights than the vast masses who have been traumatized by the gangs. But, of course, the honest, hardworking, family loving citizens of El Salvador also have Human Rights.

I have personally witnessed the great JOY of El Salvador ex pats when they had the opportunity to vote here in the USA to re-elect Bukele.^ I have met young people who fled from the gangs rather than join them.

You can see Bukele differently, if you just look at the numbers he has saved.

Finally, is it the position of Democracy Now that Fidel Castro violated the “human rights” of Batista and his capitalist/mafia henchmen in the 1959 Revolution? Should Castro be chastised for failing to follow the "Constitutional Law" of Cuba at that time? 

How can Democracy Now be so wrong?

William J. Kelleher, Ph.D. 

The Political Science Interpretivist 

https://interpretat.blogspot.com/

@InterpretivePo1

* Bukele bio on this blog at,

https://interpretat.blogspot.com/2024/02/el-salvador-elections-2024-facts-and.html 

^For some testimony by Salvadorians about how wrong Democracy Now is, read the comments on YouTube under the June 5, 2024 El Salvador story at, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cedLxUeQ-W8



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