Nayib Bukele addressing the UN General Assembly

At some point last week, I watched Bukele's speech in the UN General Assembly (Other languages can be found here).

From all the American leaders, Bukele is one who seems to be outside the claws of the US—I'm of course talking in relative terms here, because no country in America is truly beyond Uncle Sam's reach. More importantly, it seems he does not subscribe to any of the current US ideologies.

He seems to have a good character too. But we know many politicians are sociopaths or psychopaths, and they might sound deceitfully convincing—even charming. Yet, Bukele's actions seem to be aligned with his rhetoric so far. Best case scenario, his project finds continuity without him remaining in power.

The speech revolves around sovereignty and the right of self-determination.

What Bukele described using the analogy of the “wealthy neighbour” is a shared story of many countries in the so called Big South (or the Periphery), in the American continent and elsewhere.

Time will tell if we are witnessing a true change in the region.

Only the original speech (Spanish) delivers the whole message. The reason is that emotions and subtleties always gets lost in translation. The emotionality imprinted on a message is as important as the message itself—or even more.

Message = words + emotion + body language

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