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Outsider wins El Salvador presidency, breaking two-party system

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Outsider wins El Salvador presidency, breaking two-party system

By Nelson Renteria and Noe Torres

 

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Presidential candidate Nayib Bukele of the Great National Alliance (GANA) greets supporters before casting his vote in a presidential election in San Salvador, El Salvador, February 3, 2019. REUTERS/Victor Pena

 

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades.

 

Nayib Bukele, the 37-year-old former mayor of the capital, San Salvador, won 54 percent of votes with returns counted from 44 percent of polling stations. His two rivals from mainstream political parties conceded defeat.

 

Electoral authorities said they would declare definitive results within two days.

 

Bukele must now contend with U.S. President Donald Trump's frequent threats to cut aid to El Salvador - as well as neighboring Guatemala and Honduras - if they do not do more to curb migration to the United States.

 

"Today, we won in the first round and we made history," Bukele said in a victory speech to cheering supporters in the capital, after turning to snap a selfie with the crowd.

 

"We've turned the page on power."

 

Bukele, who was mayor from 2015 to 2018, capitalized on the anti-establishment feeling sweeping elections across the region and further afield, as voters seek an alternative to traditional parties.

 

Gang violence has made El Salvador one of the world's most murderous countries in the past few years, driving Salvadorans to flee to the north.

 

Among his campaign promises, Bukele, an avid social media user who often sports a black leather jacket, said he would push infrastructure projects to limit such migration.

 

Since the end of its civil war in 1992, El Salvador has been governed by the ruling leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and its rival, conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).

 

Though he describes himself as from the left and was expelled from the FMLN, Bukele has formed a coalition including a right-wing party that together has just 11 seats in the legislature.

 

Outside of the hotel in San Salvador where Bukele waited for the results, a group of supporters set off fireworks, beat drums and danced as early figures came in.

 

"Yes, we did it! Yes, we did it!" they chanted.

 

FMLN candidate Hugo Martinez conceded defeat shortly after Bukele's victory speech while ARENA candidate Carlos Calleja said he recognized the election results and would call Bukele to offer congratulations.

 

It was not immediately clear when the electoral tribune would complete counting all ballots.

 

'CORRUPT CAN'T HIDE'

Besides challenges on the international stage, once Bukele takes office in June, he will face a sluggish economy and rampant poverty.

 

He wants to modernize government and create an international anti-corruption commission with the support of the United Nations, following similar committees in Guatemala and Honduras.

 

"We'll create a (commission) ... so that the corrupt can't hide where they always hide, instead they'll have to give back what they stole," Bukele said in January.

 

Growing up, Bukele's relatively wealthy family was sympathetic to the FMLN, the former leftist guerrilla army that became a political party at the end of the civil war.

 

But Bukele has turned away from Latin America's traditional left, branding Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega as well as conservative Honduran Juan Orlando Hernandez as dictators.

 

"A dictator is a dictator, on the 'right' or the 'left'," Bukele wrote last week on Twitter.

 

(Reporting by Nelson Renteria and Noe Torres; Writing by Christine Murray and Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien and Sonya Hepinstall)

 

 

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3 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

He's right about dictators too. Can be left or right wing. The left wing ones usually insist on calling themselves democratic in the hope people believe it!

The left wing ones usually murder a lot more people too - Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao..........

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17 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Nazis. They killed German left wingers. Go back to school and stop spreading false info. Nazis are as right wing as you can get.

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You should pursue your own recommendation and inform you correctly with critical historians who know German history better ... After the war, German history was written by the victorious powers and many facts were presented in favor of these victorious powers ...

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30 minutes ago, UnkleGoooose said:

Hitler was a National Socialist. Very much born of the left. Learn history. And politics while you're at it. 

Incredibly misleading. But you probably know that already.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/

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Were the Nazis Socialists?

The full name of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party, the political movement that brought him to power and supplied the infrastructure of the fascist dictatorship over which he would preside, was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. According to historians, the complicated moniker reveals more about the image the party wanted to project and the constituency it aimed to build than it did about the Nazis’ true political goals, which were building a state based on racial superiority and brute-force governance.

 

 

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3 hours ago, GeKoSc said:

You should pursue your own recommendation and inform you correctly with critical historians who know German history better ... After the war, German history was written by the victorious powers and many facts were presented in favor of these victorious powers …

Smells of denialism. 

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You should pursue your own recommendation and inform you correctly with critical historians who know German history better ... After the war, German history was written by the victorious powers and many facts were presented in favor of these victorious powers ...

And those nasty war victors went back and rewrote "Mein Kampf" too, including all its anti-socialist passages?  The only rewrite of Nazi history is the one currently being done by the right and their dupes.

 

"Under Hitler, the party looked squarely to the middle classes and farmers rather than the working class for a political base. Hitler realigned it to ensure that it was an anti-socialist, anti-liberal, authoritarian, pro-business party - particularly after the failed Beerhall Putsch of 1923. The "socialism" in the name National Socialism was a strategically chosen misnomer designed to attract working class votes where possible, but they refused to take the bait. The vast majority voted for the Communist or Social Democratic parties."

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-socialism-and-the-falsification-of-history/10214302

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On 2/4/2019 at 6:10 PM, Jingthing said:

El Salvador can it get any worse? I wish them good luck. Never heard anyone asking about El Salvador retirement visas?

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It was a lovely place in 1978, about 1000 cars/trucks in San Salvador, billboard pictures of Dean Martin, Jerry lewis, Frank Sinatra and the venerable Sammie Davis Junior on the Plaza de Oro -  they had a big stake in the Tuna Fishing Industry and basically made El Salvador what it was back then, the drug lords made it what it is today.  but Great beaches on the coast, Aqua Dulce, and El Cuco, only surfers with balls go to El Cuco, dem waves are huge.     Now if you think El Salvador is bad, think again - Honduras is ten times worse, nothing good in Tegucigalpa, used to be a good party town, they hate gringo's and evey one they see must be DEA cause why would anyone else go there??

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It was a lovely place in 1978, about 1000 cars/trucks in San Salvador, billboard pictures of Dean Martin, Jerry lewis, Frank Sinatra and the venerable Sammie Davis Junior on the Plaza de Oro -  they had a big stake in the Tuna Fishing Industry and basically made El Salvador what it was back then, the drug lords made it what it is today.  but Great beaches on the coast, Aqua Dulce, and El Cuco, only surfers with balls go to El Cuco, dem waves are huge.     Now if you think El Salvador is bad, think again - Honduras is ten times worse, nothing good in Tegucigalpa, used to be a good party town, they hate gringo's and evey one they see must be DEA cause why would anyone else go there??

Yes, Honduras too, but I still think some people are retiring there to specific areas. Not that I'm interested.

 

https://www.liveandinvestoverseas.com/retirement-living/retirement-life-on-roatan-honduras/

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2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Yes, Honduras too, but I still think some people are retiring there to specific areas. Not that I'm interested.

 

https://www.liveandinvestoverseas.com/retirement-living/retirement-life-on-roatan-honduras/

about 10 years or so ago, a group of Menonites were all murdered and beaten on an Island they bought in 1990 near Roatan.......appears they bought the Island from the Hunduran Govt but the locals that lived on an adjoining Island disputed the sale, they were physically removed by the Guardia National.  The Menonites farmed and built houses then around 2006 or 7 their little piece of paradise was attacked by dozens of locals islanders..........murdered 6 or 7 and wounded, beat 15 others, some that escaped with their lives told the horror stories...Honduran Govt blamed it on Nicaraguan Mosquito Indians..............ther were for the most part - Retirees.

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3 minutes ago, TunnelRat69 said:

about 10 years or so ago, a group of Menonites were all murdered and beaten on an Island they bought in 1990 near Roatan.......appears they bought the Island from the Hunduran Govt but the locals that lived on an adjoining Island disputed the sale, they were physically removed by the Guardia National.  The Menonites farmed and built houses then around 2006 or 7 their little piece of paradise was attacked by dozens of locals islanders..........murdered 6 or 7 and wounded, beat 15 others, some that escaped with their lives told the horror stories...Honduran Govt blamed it on Nicaraguan Mosquito Indians..............ther were for the most part - Retirees.

Now that you've put it that way, I guess I need to make an exploratory trip. :w00t:

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