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FRANCISCO  MARTIN DEL BUEY's avatar

Agradezco la información que aportas que me permite conocer básicamente a la situación ben Latinoamerica y hacer transferencias a nuestra situación en España. Gracias.

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

Un gran abrazo y gracias por siempre comentar!

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Linda Fanning's avatar

It is good to know that El Salvador is doing well.

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

Hi Linda, Many thanks for being such an avid reader and commenting. Yes, I am impressed with President Bukele's results to date and hope his approach to the economic and financial situation will yield similar positive results. If so, he could show the way for Latin America to a better reality. Gran abrazo!

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DARREN SCHEMMER's avatar

I thought Uruguay's election rolled out quite normally, didn't it?

Regarding the success of Bukele, or anyone, it's not the methods that people vote for. It's the results. Bukele understands Maslowe's hierarchy of needs and that humans need physical security, then emotional, then economic, before they can prioritize anything else. If traditional political parties provide this they can still win elections while respecting human rights, democratic norms and a rules-based international order. Unfortunately, many traditional parties have been taken over either by people focused on self-actualization (at the top of the pyramid) or the failed ideologies you describe or people so angry that they want to tear apart many rules and institutions and start over.

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

As aleays, very thoughtful comments. Latin America has been caught between a left stuck in the ambar of the sixties and the right stuck in a conservative ideological prison. Bukele makes common sense his ideology and results his goal. The future? Let’s ser! Un abrazo!

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

Sorry for the errors. I am all thumbs on my phone!

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Katalin Poor's avatar

It kind of feels like the curse of the Indigenous people they so brutally conquered and oppressed is now upon them. Every idealistic notion of governance, and I'm thinking of Bolivar, has been thwarted by the arrogance and machoism that still prevails among the rulers and many of the ruled. What a tragic failure. That beautiful land and those beautiful people! Such a waste!

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Eduardo del Buey's avatar

Indeed. A continent made tragic by human greed and acquiescence. Such a shame!

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