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Honestly, a lot of us South Americans look at El Salvador and Bukele with a mix of hope, envy, and respect.
by angra_mainyu 3y ago
Honestly, a lot of us South Americans look at El Salvador and Bukele with a mix of hope, envy, and respect.
- remarkEon 3y agoIs that the general feeling in South America or just where you're at? In the US, depending on who you ask he's the next Pinochet, general ignorance here of South American history notwithstanding.
- angra_mainyu 3y agoGeneral feeling of a somewhat wide sample of my social circle, that encompasses various South American countries, Europe, and the US. Same goes for the Salvadoreans I know. Overall I feel it's only a combination of foreign NGOs + a domestic progressive minority that criticize Bukele.
- el-salvador 3y agoI think El Salvador has a very well run media-and-public relations department that creates media and guidelines for publications in different markets (countries). It relies on social media, instead of relying on traditional public broadcasting like German's Deutsche Welle, British BBC or U.S Voice of America. This has given El Salvador lots of "soft-power". What I've seen is that it will talk about (well researched) the target audience's pain points and show how El Salvador solves them.
- remarkEon 3y agoNot sure I follow. You're saying El Salvador has an extensive and apparently successful propaganda apparatus that uses social media instead of state-controlled broadcasting. And thus the perspective of El Salvador held by those who do not live there is wrong? Not clear what you're suggesting.
- el-salvador 3y ago> And thus the perspective of El Salvador held by those who do not live there is wrong? Sometimes wrong, sometimes contradictory and most of the times a very sugarcoated version of reality.
- remarkEon 3y agoOkay, so what is actually happening in El Salvador?