#EL SALVADOR: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ROMANCES BUKELE. MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY, WSJ
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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1914 EL SALVADOR
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.9 | Al Salvador's president re-elected recently by an overwhelming electorate is Naibuquele, visited by |
| 0:20.4 | Marco Rubio and his first embassy outside the United |
| 0:23.3 | States since his appointment and confirmation as Secretary of State. |
| 0:28.5 | I welcome Mary Ann Estacio Grady, the American columnist and editor for the editorial page |
| 0:34.4 | of the Wall Street Journal, to explain a photograph that makes it look very much like the host |
| 0:41.1 | gathering the affection of the visitor. |
| 0:44.3 | The visitor is Marco Rubio, the host is Naiboukele. |
| 0:48.7 | He has a left hand on Mr. Rubio's right shoulder and a friendly gesture, and they appear to have |
| 0:56.3 | known each other for quite some time. Mary, a very good evening to you. Naiboukele looks like a |
| 1:03.5 | paragon of president of Central America. However, you outline the facts in your piece about how he got here. |
| 1:13.1 | As I recall, it's fair to say that he is no friend of transparency. |
| 1:17.9 | Good evening to you, Mary. |
| 1:19.9 | Well, good evening, John. |
| 1:21.1 | I would say he's no friend of transparency. |
| 1:24.8 | He is no friend of democracy. |
| 1:26.6 | And he shouldn't be treated as some |
| 1:29.1 | kind of a role model by the United States. But in fact, that's what Marco Rubio did when he went |
| 1:33.7 | to visit him in El Salvador and his recent swing through Central America. Naibu Kelly has violated his own constitution. |
| 1:45.0 | He's fired his constitutional court, replaced it with his own handpicked members to sit in the court. |
| 1:55.0 | They then ruled that he was allowed to run for re-election, even though the Constitution clearly says he |
| 2:01.7 | cannot run for re-election. And he's used his power to basically call a, what we might call |
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