{"id":1298666,"date":"2022-02-15T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1298666"},"modified":"2022-02-15T08:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:52:47","slug":"el-salvador-president-on-ukraine-the-real-war-is-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-salvador-president-on-ukraine-the-real-war-is-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador President on Ukraine: \u2018The Real War Is in Canada\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fel-salvador-president-on-ukraine-the-real-war-is-in-canada%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1298666&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/may7-2021-El-Salvador-President-Nayib-Bukele-ca-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said on Sunday the crisis in Ukraine is just a distraction, while the \u201creal war\u201d of interest to free people around the world is being fought over authoritarian coronavirus mandates in Europe, Canada, and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The real war is not in Ukraine, it\u2019s in Canada, Australia, France, Brussels, England, Germany, Italy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>They just want you to look the other way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1492740255123976193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Bukele was especially horrified by footage of French riot police rolling in armored vehicles against a protest styled after Canada\u2019s Freedom Convoy demonstrations:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is Paris, today.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine this was in El Salvador\u2026<\/p>\n<p>What would France, the European Union, and the \u201cinternational community\u201d say?<\/p>\n<p>Honestly.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SISlogq6qn\">pic.twitter.com\/SISlogq6qn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1492708333656104962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Bukele, whose government made headlines last year by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/el-salvador-s-bitcoin-law-understanding-alternatives-to-government-intervention\"><span>becoming<\/span><\/a><span> the first nation to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, also turns out to be a big fan of onetime presidential candidate, noted monetary policy critic, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2013\/04\/17\/ron-paul-to-launch-non-interventionist-summer-school\"><span>anti-interventionist icon<\/span><\/a><span> Ron Paul:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why isn\u2019t this man your President \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cmms5S7N6Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/cmms5S7N6Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1492667566191489024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Bukele is a longtime critic of vaccination mandates, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1466527805152370692\"><span>boasting<\/span><\/a><span> in December that vaccines are \u201cavailable for everyone, even tourists, including boosters,\u201d but his administration has imposed no vaccine mandates, passports, or testing requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEverybody makes their own choice,\u201d he said. \u201cSo far, over 70 percent have been vaccinated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>El Salvador began <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paho.org\/en\/news\/12-3-2021-salvador-receives-its-first-covid-19-vaccines-through-covax-facility\"><span>receiving<\/span><\/a><span> AstraZeneca vaccines through the United Nations and World Health Organization-sponsored COVAX program in March 2021. As of February 2021, roughly 78 percent of the population has been vaccinated, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps\/countries-and-territories\/el-salvador\/\"><span>based<\/span><\/a><span> on usage statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bukele is quick to call out authoritarian behavior in North America and Europe, perhaps because he has been accused of authoritarianism himself, so he views his critics as hypocrites. For example, in February 2020 Bukele <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/02\/10\/el-salvador-president-bukele-orders-military-storm-congress-help-pass-security-bill\/\">sent troops<\/a> into the El Salvadoran parliament to pressure lawmakers into voting for a bill that would fund his programs against gang violence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Critics such as Human Rights Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/05\/21\/us-can-stop-el-salvadors-slide-authoritarianism-time-act\">condemned<\/a> Bukele\u2019s administration as a \u201cslide into authoritarianism,\u201d an accusation he angrily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/23\/world\/americas\/el-salvador-bukele-raids.html\">rejects<\/a>, insisting his policies have strong support from the people, and his hardball tactics are necessary to reform the corrupt systems of El Salvador.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said on Sunday the crisis in Ukraine is just a distraction, while the \u201creal war\u201d of interest to free people around the world &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}