Allow me to be petty for a minute and say that I am BEYOND THRILLED to see the oversimplified tepid takes Salvadorans in the US make on Twitter stumble upon how in a matter of hours the Bukele minions in la Asamblea made explicit authoritarian moves they have no way to understand

What's happening right now, representatives removing supreme court judges from their seats and the attorney general on their first day on the job is clear enough of a message to know where this is headed. What will those who kept praising the Bukele admin for being "different" do

The time to give the Bukele admin some leeway is over. It should have never existed in the first place. You guys are complicit with your so called neutrality-listen-to-both-sides bullshit, especially when you will not live under the consequences of this clown and his antics.

The Bukele admin is authoritarian. There is no way around it. You either speak about El Salvador knowing this is true or you don't speak at all. Your hot takes from Maryland or the Bay Area are not needed, nor are they welcomed.

Listen to us down here and shut the fuck up.

No one other than the Kriete (Avianca) and the Calleja (Super Selectos) will benefit from an authoritarian regime. Things are never simpler, never safer, never better under an authoritarian regime. Working class folx will continue to starve, this country will be more inhospitable

We have had an El Salvador like this once before. It is precisely the reason why I have to address you in English: you lost your homeland, your roots, your extended family because of an authoritarian regime. Don't be complicit with another one now that you can oppose it.

Understand that your understanding of an El Salvador you have only learn about from your family's silence and pain is not one that will suffice you right now. Listen to us down here. This is dangerous. And we need you.
Just take your time to listen and, when time comes, speak up