The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, issued what he described as a “warning to a friend” during his address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday evening, asking Americans to fight “global elites” who “hate our success and fear yours.”
“They say globalism comes to die at CPAC. I’m here to tell you that in El Salvador, it’s already dead,” Bukele declared to applause.
Bukele took the opportunity to once again celebrate his historic victory in his nation’s presidential election this February, which he won by about 85 percent of the vote, and his party received an overwhelming majority in the federal legislature. Election observers declared the unprecedented results legitimate and the election itself free and fair, though noting that the Salvadoran Constitution does not allow presidents to be reelected and that Bukele got…
