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“We are interested in adapting Bukele's model,” said the Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich , a day after the Salvadoran president was re-elected with a large majority. It was the latest sign that governments in the region, from Honduras to Ecuador, were inspired by Bukele's heavy-handed prescriptions against gang violence, such as the adoption of a state of exception and mass incarceration, with which he sank homicide rates in El Salvador. However, Laura Chinchilla , former president of Costa Rica and security expert, rules out that Bukele's strategy could be a model for Latin America. Advertisements “It is simply unreal and we are dreaming about a kind of mirage that makes us waste time,” says Chinchilla in an interview with BBC Mundo.
And she maintains that there are successful alternatives to combat crime, including the one that she herself applied when she governed her country between 2010 and 2014, with a reduction in homicides and an increase in imprisonments without dismantling the rule of law as she believes Bukele does. What follows is a summary of the telephone conversation with Costa Rica Mobile Number List this political scientist who was also Costa Rican Minister of Public Security and Justice, as well as a consultant to international organizations on these issues. Line BBC What conclusion have you drawn about the re-election of President Bukele in El Salvador? That fundamental elements that characterize a democratic State in El Salvador have practically disappeared.
For example, we did not see a level playing field, with similar participation conditions for different alternatives. Perhaps what hit us the most was seeing an electoral authority absolutely annulled, to the point that it could not even finish giving the count and the official data, but it was the ruler himself who gave them. Prior to that there had been a flagrant violation of the Constitution through an interpretation of a Court that had been politically appointed by a Congress also controlled by the ruler. Bukele gestures in front of the flag of El Salvador Getty Images In a second term, Bukele will intensify “his autocratic style of governing,” says Chinchilla. And the independent press has practically had to leave El Salvador to report from outside. So those conditions, which are fundamental to say that there is an election with full conditions of participation, competition and transparency, were already very limited.
And she maintains that there are successful alternatives to combat crime, including the one that she herself applied when she governed her country between 2010 and 2014, with a reduction in homicides and an increase in imprisonments without dismantling the rule of law as she believes Bukele does. What follows is a summary of the telephone conversation with Costa Rica Mobile Number List this political scientist who was also Costa Rican Minister of Public Security and Justice, as well as a consultant to international organizations on these issues. Line BBC What conclusion have you drawn about the re-election of President Bukele in El Salvador? That fundamental elements that characterize a democratic State in El Salvador have practically disappeared.
For example, we did not see a level playing field, with similar participation conditions for different alternatives. Perhaps what hit us the most was seeing an electoral authority absolutely annulled, to the point that it could not even finish giving the count and the official data, but it was the ruler himself who gave them. Prior to that there had been a flagrant violation of the Constitution through an interpretation of a Court that had been politically appointed by a Congress also controlled by the ruler. Bukele gestures in front of the flag of El Salvador Getty Images In a second term, Bukele will intensify “his autocratic style of governing,” says Chinchilla. And the independent press has practically had to leave El Salvador to report from outside. So those conditions, which are fundamental to say that there is an election with full conditions of participation, competition and transparency, were already very limited.