3 facts from the life of Nayib Bukele, re-elected president
Feb 20, 2024 3:07:26 GMT -6
Post by asadul4986 on Feb 20, 2024 3:07:26 GMT -6
As soon as he won the elections in El Salvador in 2019, he was nicknamed the “millennial president” for his youth, his leather jacket and his backwards cap. X (formerly Twitter) is your favorite platform for making announcements. He put El Salvador on the agenda for much more than being one of the countries with the most homicides in the world. Someone who has followed the current events of the Central American country more closely may also know that: He called for the establishment of an emergency regime that is on track to be in force for two years to combat the feared and violent gangs and managed to pacify the country. He built a megaprison for gang members and skyrocketed the incarceration rate. Those and other security policies earned him unprecedented popularity and accusations of human rights violations alike. And you are also probably aware that candidates and officials from all over Latin America mention him as an example and that there are even those who coined a term to describe his formula: “ Bukelismo.
But there may be less known aspects that help to understand where the young politician comes from, who he is and how he evolved who, after competing again for the presidency based on a controversial interpretation of the Constitution that prohibits doing so, swept the polls this Sunday. and a second term will begin in June. Advertisements With 31% of votes counted Costa Rica Mobile Number List the candidate of the ruling Nuevas Ideas party has overwhelming support of almost 1,300,000 votes. At a huge distance in second position is Manuel Flores , FLMN candidate, with barely 110,000 votes. “This day, El Salvador has broken all the records of all democracies in the entire history of the world,” said Bukele after knowing the first results. “Never has a project won with the number of votes we have won this day.
It is literally the highest percentage in all of history.” 1. A wealthy origin and the influence of his father Born in San Salvador on July 24, 1981, Nayib Bukele, 42, grew up in a wealthy environment, in a wealthy neighborhood of the capital. He is one of the 10 children of Armando Bukele Kattán , the oldest of the four he had with Olga Marina Ortez. Bukele Kattán, descendant of a family of Palestinian immigrants who arrived in El Salvador at the beginning of the 20th century, built a varied business consortium , made up of companies in the advertising, textile, pharmaceutical, beverage and automotive sectors. He did it, like his ancestors, overcoming prejudices and bureaucratic obstacles, such as the decree that the Legislative Assembly approved in mid-1930 and which prohibited Arab, Palestinian, Turkish and other ancestry citizens from establishing businesses even if they had nationality. Already in 2014 it had assets worth more than US$18.4 million , according to a balance sheet presented to the Commerce Registry cited by the Salvadoran digital newspaper El Faro.
But there may be less known aspects that help to understand where the young politician comes from, who he is and how he evolved who, after competing again for the presidency based on a controversial interpretation of the Constitution that prohibits doing so, swept the polls this Sunday. and a second term will begin in June. Advertisements With 31% of votes counted Costa Rica Mobile Number List the candidate of the ruling Nuevas Ideas party has overwhelming support of almost 1,300,000 votes. At a huge distance in second position is Manuel Flores , FLMN candidate, with barely 110,000 votes. “This day, El Salvador has broken all the records of all democracies in the entire history of the world,” said Bukele after knowing the first results. “Never has a project won with the number of votes we have won this day.
It is literally the highest percentage in all of history.” 1. A wealthy origin and the influence of his father Born in San Salvador on July 24, 1981, Nayib Bukele, 42, grew up in a wealthy environment, in a wealthy neighborhood of the capital. He is one of the 10 children of Armando Bukele Kattán , the oldest of the four he had with Olga Marina Ortez. Bukele Kattán, descendant of a family of Palestinian immigrants who arrived in El Salvador at the beginning of the 20th century, built a varied business consortium , made up of companies in the advertising, textile, pharmaceutical, beverage and automotive sectors. He did it, like his ancestors, overcoming prejudices and bureaucratic obstacles, such as the decree that the Legislative Assembly approved in mid-1930 and which prohibited Arab, Palestinian, Turkish and other ancestry citizens from establishing businesses even if they had nationality. Already in 2014 it had assets worth more than US$18.4 million , according to a balance sheet presented to the Commerce Registry cited by the Salvadoran digital newspaper El Faro.