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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is really stirring the pot by initiating a bribery investigation into his entire executive cabinet. He dropped this bombshell during a meeting with all executive branch officials, and the moment was even filmed for posterity. This audacious step is a continuation of his campaign to eradicate corruption and “Make El Salvador Great Again.” Fresh off a landslide reelection victory in February, Bukele is riding high with an approval rating north of 80%, largely due to his success in tackling the country’s gang violence.

RELATED: Dems “concerned” over Bukele’s landslide win in El Salvador and how “late night” ballot counts suddenly jumped in his favor…

Bukele earns hefty praise for his unwavering commitment to transparency, declaring that he’s setting an example other leaders should emulate. Someone might want to pass this article along to Joe Biden.

However, there’s always a chorus of critics, primarily from the left, who love to stir up trouble. They claim Bukele’s move isn’t a genuine effort to clean house but rather a PR stunt designed for the cameras.

Well, liberals, judging by the expressions on these elites’ faces, this seems to be more than just a “stunt.” It looks like the beginning of something quite substantial. Time will tell.

 

This move by Bukele shouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, he’s been vocal about tackling “white collar” crime for about a year now.

Yahoo News: 

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Thursday pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals as part of a crackdown on corruption that he likened to his fight against criminal gangs.

“Just as we fought the gangs head on with the full force of the state, we will launch a full-on war against corruption,” he said during a national address to mark his fifth year of being in office. “Just as we built a prison for the terrorists, we will build one for the corrupt.”

Bukele launched a brutal campaign on the country’s violent gangs over a year ago, suspending constitutional rights in a so-called state of exception. The policy has won broad popular support but human rights groups say innocent people have been caught up in the crackdown.

The government in February moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened “mega prison”.

“We will fight white-collar criminals wherever they come from,” Bukele added, “but we will only use legal means.”

Bukele also used his speech to announce bills to slim down the country’s political system by cutting the number of deputies in the country’s unicameral Congress to 60 from 84, and turn the small Central American country’s 262 municipalities into 44 districts.

These bills will need to be voted through Congress, he said.

Later in the speech, Bukele said former President Alfredo Cristiani’s property was being raided.

A court ordered Cristiani’s provisional arrest over a year ago for alleged involvement in covering up the murder of six Jesuit priests and two of their staff during the country’s civil war in the 1980s.

The address ended to shouts of “re-election” from the gathering in the Congress.

Meanwhile, our officials, like Bill Barr, glance at something for five minutes and then declare, “Everything’s fine; nothing to see here.” It’s absurd. Just imagine if we adopted Bukele’s approach in the United States—98 percent of the people might end up behind bars, and frankly, that’s a good thing. We wish Bukele much luck and success in rooting out these corrupt elites. After all, this is where the real corruption starts and spreads out.

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