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10 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

So, the question no one is asking.

We paid Naive Bukkake $6M to house 250 prisoners for four months?

Was that a one-time, lump-sum payment, or is that the annual bill? Either way, that's quite the "deal" Trump made with the technofascist running that country, but I'm sure Bukele's ties to international gangs, including MS-13, have to play a role in the whole thing. It's funny how their partnership materialized overnight as soon as Trump was elected.

Anyway, El Salvador just changed their Constitution by eliminating term limits, which undoubtedly Trump finds both inspirational and aspirational. Oh, and Bukele's got a really punchable face.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/world/americas/el-salvador-bukele-term-limits.html

El Salvador’s National Assembly on Thursday approved sweeping changes to the nation’s Constitution, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele, who is in his second term in office, to run for re-election indefinitely.

The legislature, in which Mr. Bukele’s party holds a supermajority, voted to end presidential term limits and extend a president’s term in office from five years to six, according to the National Assembly's X account.

Mr. Bukele was first elected in 2019 and successfully ran in 2024 for a second term, even though legal scholars said at the time that El Salvador’s Constitution barred a president from serving consecutive terms. After Mr. Bukele’s legislative allies installed new judges on the Supreme Court, the court reinterpreted the Constitution and cleared the way for the president to run again.

The 44-year-old president has consolidated power while in office, leading his Nuevas Ideas party to its supermajority in the legislature and cracking down on gangs through mass arrests. Killings and extortion by gangs have gone down dramatically under Mr. Bukele, but civil liberties have also deteriorated, Salvadoran human rights defenders say.

In June, Mr. Bukele said he would rather be called a dictator than let criminals operate with impunity. He has also positioned himself as President Trump’s closest ally in Latin America, playing a role in Mr. Trump’s deportation plans by imprisoning immigrants expelled from the United States, in exchange for the return to El Salvador of members of the MS-13 gang who had been in U.S. custody.

The amendments to five articles of the Constitution quickly passed on Thursday, with 57 votes in favor and three opposed, the National Assembly said on X.

The changes will ensure that presidential elections coincide with legislative and municipal elections, Ana Figueroa, the Nuevas Ideas lawmaker who proposed the amendments, wrote on social media after the vote. She also noted that legislators and local officials, like mayors, do not have term limits.

Mr. Bukele’s current term ends in 2029, but Ms. Figueroa said that it should end in 2027 to coincide with legislative elections, at which point he could run for a six-year term.

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At least he looks sharp in suit and jet black T. 

 

I will dust off this goldie oldie from the past. Remember when ten minutes after any negative story large or small, the right would screech at the left,

Where's the outrage?

I'll add, where's the shame? They've likely been buried deep in the same place.

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I grew up in El Salvador in the 1980's. I have very good friends there. They are all leaving. Heading wherever they can. These are lawyers, business owners, etc. They stayed during the civil war. They stayed during the criminal wave. And yeah, it was bad. Real bad. But now they are leaving. Costa Rica, Guatemala, or few those with the right papers, Miami. 

This would have been the last opposition to Bukele. Now there is not one. 

Oh, and he was a punk in high school. Never invited to the right parties, never able to meet the right girls. He will now go after the upper middle class. Seize their business, homes, whatever he can. It will take the Army to get rid of him. And there is rumbling. 

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