GA / EL SALVADOR BUKELE

STORY: GA / EL SALVADOR BUKELE
TRT: 01:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, exterior, UNGA sign outside United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele walks up to rostrum
3. Med shot, El Salvador delegation
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nayib Bukele, President, El Salvador:
"We do not accept the destiny that others had drawn for us. Today, four years into our mandate, no one dares to even deny that for the first time in our 202-year history, the smallest country on our continent has taken its first big steps towards achieving its dreams of greatness. In a very short time, El Salvador went from being the world capital for homicides – it went literally from being the most dangerous place in the planet to being the safest country in Latin America.”
5. Wide shot, Bukele at the rostrum
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nayib Bukele, President, El Salvador:
"For decades we followed everything we were told was the best for us. We fought a civil over a cause that was foreign to us, as they transported the conflict between the West and the Soviet Union to our homeland. Over 85,000 deaths later and a country that was destroyed, after all that, we were told that that was no longer the recipe. That now, there was a new recipe. So, they made sing a set of fake peace accords, that were not peaceful at all, and all they did was to divide the loot among the two sides in the war.”
7. Wide shot, Bukele at the rostrum
8. Med shot, El Salvador delegation applauding
9. Wide shot, Bukele walks away

STORYLINE:

In his remarks to the General Assembly’s General Debate, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, today (19 Sep) said, “in a very short time,” El Salvador went from being “the most dangerous place in the planet to being the safest country in Latin America.”

Bukele said, “four years into our mandate, no one dares to even deny that for the first time in our 202-year history, the smallest country in our continent has taken its first big steps towards achieving its dreams of greatness.”

He said, “for decades we followed everything we were told was the best for us. We fought a civil over a cause that was foreign to us, as they transported the conflict between the West and the Soviet Union to our homeland. Over 85,000 deaths later and a country that was destroyed, after all that, we were told that that was no longer the recipe. That now, there was a new recipe. So, they made sing a set of fake peace accords, that were not peaceful at all, and all they did was to divide the loot among the two sides in the war.”

The United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (ONUSAL) was established in July 1991 to verify implementation of all agreements between the Government of El Salvador and the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberación Nacional, including a ceasefire and related measures, reform and reduction of the armed forces, creation of a new police force, reform of the judicial and electoral systems, human rights, land tenure and other economic and social issues.