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Senor President, President of the General Assembly, your excellencies, heads of state and government, distinguished members of the delegations with us here today, ladies and gentlemen.
When I came to this General Assembly for the first time in 2019, I know that many of you didn’t know El Salvador or even hadn’t heard of El Salvador. If you had heard of it, you had only heard bad references — either the most violent country in the world or the country of gangs. Others didn’t even know where to put us on the map. But thanks to God, this has significantly changed, and in a very short time.
Five years after my first speech, I come here as the president of a country that now has a voice in the world. In my previous statements to this General Assembly, I talked about the quest for our true independence. For decades, we were in chains due to an imported civil war and then a false peace that left behind more dead than the war itself. I also talked about the importance of remembering that the main responsibility of a government is towards its own people, and the crucial importance of taking our own fate into our own hands.
We believe we shouldn’t think that other countries would save us or that other nations would give us our own freedom. We had to understand this to then have the courage to break these chains ourselves and claim our own legitimate right to be free. Over the last five years, El Salvador has been born again.
You can see this in the country and in the people. We have a flourishing tourist industry. We are a country of sport, surf, and entertainment. Thousands of Salvadorians who fled war and poverty are now coming back. We’ve now made this a country to return to. And our nation, once the global capital of homicides, has now become the safest country in our region.
This was a great challenge that our nation overcame, but we still have a lot to do and many things to achieve. We are now on the cusp of true independence and the path toward true freedom. The transformation of El Salvador is without comparison, and our success is undeniable. Anyone can visit El Salvador and see this for themselves. Salvadorians, regardless of for whom they voted or where they were born, whether within or outside our borders, have come to support our decisions — each of the decisions that allow El Salvador to be a country where people can live calmly and in peace, where spiritual aspirations transcend material aspirations.
Today, the world is looking at the example of El Salvador and wonders: how can a country lift itself up so quickly? But perhaps this isn’t the right question to ask. Perhaps they should be asking a different question: how is the rest of the world falling down so quickly?
They say that El Salvador is swimming against the tide because El Salvador has become safer while, at the same time, the world has become less safe. While the Salvadorian people have become more optimistic, the majority of the people in the modern world have become increasingly pessimistic. And they’re right — the world has become divided, depressed, concerned, and hopeless at an unprecedented pace. The free world is no longer free. This is not an exaggeration; tragically, we have undeniable proof of this every day.
New threats of war continue. When the free world became free, it was due to freedom of expression and equality before the law. But once a nation abandons the principles that make it free, it’s only a question of time before it completely loses its freedom. The consequences of this are visible before our eyes.
We see them in some of the most advanced countries in the world. There are simple things, for instance, that cannot be obtained in other cities. Streets no longer belong to the people; they’ve fallen into the wrong hands — the hands of drug traffickers and gangs.
They can’t call themselves a free country when people can’t freely walk in the streets without fear of being attacked. We’re also seeing the erosion of freedom of expression. Just one decade ago, the biggest platform of social media in the world had to face a reality where citizens of Western countries were being arrested for their postings on social media. Governments have had to impose restrictions. This isn’t a conspiracy theory — these are fully documented and proven facts.
You can’t win the favor of the people without respecting people. This didn’t just start a while ago. We’ve only just now noticed it because it’s accelerating. And this means that we are moving toward a scary inflection point. We are standing before a new dark period for humanity.
As a Salvadorian, I recognize these symptoms because we have experienced all of them. We saw the collapse of our nation step by step, and we are seeing these same steps, but this time on a global scale.
We cannot, nor do we want to, tell other countries what they should do. Every country needs to take its own decisions and do what’s best for its people. We can only offer a word of warning, like a friend who’s gone through a dark period and battled in their own lives. We can’t change the direction of the world — El Salvador is too small a country for that. We are, indeed, the smallest country in the whole of the American continent.
This is much bigger than us. In fact, it’s much bigger than any nation. We can’t prevent the obscure times that are ahead, but what we can do is become a small refuge in light of the approaching storm and try to have hope.
In El Salvador, we will not renounce our positions. We don’t confiscate the property of people who don’t agree with us. We don’t arrest people for their own ideas. In El Salvador, we have freedom of expression, and that will always be protected. In El Salvador, we prioritize public safety over the comfort of criminals.
Some people say that we are the country that has imprisoned thousands, but actually, we’ve freed millions. Now, good people are living free — with freedoms and human rights fully respected. We want our people to prosper. That’s why we foster innovation and new ideas. We understand that we need to have a safe space for ideas to flourish so that we can encourage research and experimentation.
We shouldn’t be hindered by antiquated regulations or something that opposes change. In El Salvador, you will find a space to explore your ambitions — be that in technology, energy, medicine, arts, culture, music, or architecture. Just a few years ago, El Salvador was one of the darkest places on the entire planet. But in a short time, our country was born again because we remembered that freedom is something you take — it isn’t given to us, it isn’t gifted to us. And like anything worth taking in life, it should be looked after and maintained.
Today, El Salvador is a safe country for progress and innovation, but also for families and for pursuing our own aims. In El Salvador, we welcome you all — mainly for our people, but also for anyone who wishes to contribute to our vision.
It won’t be easy to do this. The next step, in fact, is perhaps harder than the previous steps we’ve had to take. We have freed our country, but we need to maintain this freedom in a world that is increasingly less free. El Salvador has left its past behind, a past we never wish to return to again.
Perhaps it will be too late to avoid the obscure times ahead for our world, but it’s not too late to build a bridge and escape the storm.
May God bless humanity. Thank you very much.
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The biggest problems according to the ‘Effective’ ‘Altruists’:
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Riiiight.
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Well, at least the Climate Change Scam is only Number 5 on their list. Perhaps these “effective altruists” are not totally devoid of intelligence?
Personally, I would have put the risk of “Great Power” wars higher on their chart. Maybe those “effective altruists” have not read the newspapers in a while, and don’t know about the ongoing US/NATO (currently proxy) war in the Ukraine, or about the West’s ongoing saber-rattling over Taiwan? Since the appropriate action to ameliorate the situation is obvious and we can - in theory - control what Our Betters do in our name (except in Austria … and France … and Germany), this looks like the easiest challenge to meet. Nevertheless, “effective altruists” conclude: “However, it seems hard to reduce this risk”. What a bunch of cop-outs!
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Condign punishment. More coming, inshallah.
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A significant part of the [estimated – all estimated] reduction in carbon emissions in the West is directly related to the transfer of productive industry to India & China.
Far Leftie climate extremists get to feel good about themselves. Mother Earth notices no reduction in the total global human emissions of CO2 (which are only a small fraction of natural emissions, and are anyway absolutely essential for the continued growth of crops on which those Far Lefties depend). And the West ends up facing fast-approaching impoverishment due to de-industrialization, tax shortfalls, and trade deficits.
Stupidity has a cost!
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