El Salvador’s president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington
Associated PressNATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele received a rock-star welcome Thursday at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to “unapologetically fight” against what he called “dark forces.” At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Bukele told people to use El Salvador as a warning. “The next president of the United States must not only win an election, he must have the vision, the will and the courage to do whatever it takes, and above all, he must be able to identify the underlying forces that will conspire against him,” Bukele said in fluent English at the gathering in National Harbor, Maryland, south of Washington. At one point in his remarks, Bukele said it took 50 years, two wars, 250,000 deaths, a third of the population displaced “and a near miracle to get our country back.” Someone in the crowd shouted, “And you!” As he exited the ballroom, people cheered, shouted his name, blew horns in support and paraded a calendar with his photograph as conservatives chased him down the halls to snap pictures and get a few words with the leader. “To have a smart man as president really makes a difference,” said Nallely Gutiérrez Gijón, who managed to get a picture with the Salvadoran leader.
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