Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele
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J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver. Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître. Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France. La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) · Oct 18, 2026 · 08:30 (El Salvador time)View original on X ↗
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Message in French about the unrest in France (see the related story).
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Bukele says France "could do it in a week" after the unrest there
On Sunday, October 18, President Nayib Bukele posted a message in French on X about the cost-of-living riots in France. According to El Diario de Hoy's translation, he said El Salvador overcame "in one year a problem a hundred times more serious" without the resources France has, and that France "could do it in a week". Infobae notes that Bukele did not specify which problem he meant. Outlets give different arrest figures for France, so we leave them out.
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