Date: June 7th, 2023 4:40 PM
Author: Deep doobsian field
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-shows-dark-side-2023-06-07/
El Salvador's Shame
By Nelson Renteria
June 7, 202312:00 PM EDTUpdated 4 hours ago
[1/2] El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivers a speech in San Salvador, El Salvador June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Jessica Orellana/File Photo
SAN SALVADOR, June 7 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced in an address to Congress that the country would be celebrating families throughout the month of June
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Bukele delivered a dark and fiery speech about promoting family values to a packed house of legislators, initiating a Family Pride month.
"The imperialists in the north are celebrating something else," he said, before prancing around the stage in a crude mimicry of an effeminate man.
"Not in El Salvador. Here we are proud to have families."
The President announced a monthlong tax hiatus for married parents and various social welfare handouts for parents with multiple children.
"Have more," he exhorted his audience. "Marry young, have children. They are gifts from God and will make you happy."
Veering wildly from the script shared with media, he condemned higher education, women in the workplace, and "the Yankee culture of promiscuity, where women alternate between swallowing psychotropic drugs and semen."
The display of gay pride flags has been made a felony and Bukele said last week he would also build a prison for anyone advocating homosexuality, promiscuity, or other "death cults", similar to the "mega prison" opened earlier this year for gang members.
Opposition parties say they are powerless to oppose the new laws. Salvadoran Jewish groups have begun seeking international intervention.
"This cannot stand," lawmaker Rachel Weintraub of leftist party FMLN said.
So called Family Pride parades will be held weekly, with the purpose of flaunting the fecundity of the Salvadoran people.
"Our future is about children," the President repeated. "And we will protect them from you know who."
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Bukele is highly favored for re-election, despite the constitution appearing to clearly prohibit consecutive terms.
Reporting by Nelson Renteria; Writing by Kylie Madry; Editing by Bill Berkrot
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