Nayib Bukele changed his biography on Twitter: “Dictador de El Salvador”

The President of El Salvador, Here to watch, changed his biography on Twitter this Sunday to call himself a “dictator” in ironic response to the wave of criticism and accusations for the growing authoritarianism with which he rules.

In your verified account, you now have as bio “Dictator of El Salvador”. Earlier this year, her introduction was “Layla’s Dad”, her daughter born in 2019.

In recent days, the hashtag #BukeleDictador has been in vogue in the country, among other reasons for the controversial constitutional reform project drawn up under the leadership of the vice-president, and which civil society is questioning for having been drawn up “vertically” by the government.

Previously, Bukele had been singled out at the expense of constitutional guarantees, after advancing on the Legislative Assembly accompanied by police and soldiers armed with assault rifles. Subsequently, using the majority acquired in the legislative elections, he promoted changes in the prosecution and the constitutional chamber.

It is this tribunal which, after its reform, allowed him to be re-elected immediately for the elections of 2024, despite the fact that the Constitution of the Republic categorically prohibits it at least three times.

This weekend, Bukele adopted a legislative decree which withdraws a third of the judges and a similar measure that affects prosecutors, despite protests at home and abroad.

The entry into force of the legal reform which dismisses more than 240 judges and magistrates is the “consummation of the blow” against the Judiciary, according to the humanitarian organization Cristosal, which added that with the measure it “eliminates the system of checks and balances established in the Constitution ”of the Central American country.

This isn’t the first time Bukele has taken the autocrat nickname with humor in his Twitter profile. In January, the President adopted the photograph of Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen, the main character in the film “The Dictator” and played by Briton Sacha Baron Cohen.

In addition, the hashtag #QueBonitaDictadura has become popular among his followers, with photos of soldiers delivering food and doctors vaccinating against Covid, in a way that trivializes an authoritarian regime.

On a national channel, he assured last week that to date his government has not used a tear gas canister and does not crack down, but activists fear a new attack on the opposition, journalists and marches organizers. of the opposition.

In August last year, Bukele said on a nationwide channel that “if he was truly a dictator” he would have shot constitutional judges on the Supreme Court for declaring confinement decrees unconstitutional. due to the COVID pandemic. “I would have shot them all or something, if I was really a dictator.” Save a thousand lives in exchange for five, ”he said, referring to the then five judges of the Constitutional Chamber.

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