El Salvador issues stark warning

UN speech highlights globalist attack on freedoms in the West

- PAUL BENNETT

El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, recently told an audience at the 79th session of the United Nations' (UN) General Assembly in New York that western societies are eroding their freedoms at a rapid rate, and warned of darker times ahead for the world.

In a wide-ranging impassioned speech on September 24, President Bukele proudly highlighted the rebirth of a safe and prosperous El Salvador, while cautioning against the rise of globalism "moving towards a scary infection point", especially in freedom of speech, private property and overall security.

He told the 193 delegates: "I come here as the president of a country that now has a voice in the world. For decades we were in chains due to an imported civil war and then a false peace that left behind more dead than war itself, but over the past five years El Salvador has been born again." In a swipe at western nations and specifically the U.S., the popular president told the General Assembly: "Today, the free world is no longer free. This is not an exaggeration.