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SAN SALVADOR— Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele released a message addressed to France in which he expressed his confidence in the European country's capacity for recovery and compared its challenges to those faced by El Salvador.

"France remains just as beautiful, even enviable. Its greatness has not disappeared; it is simply waiting to be reborn," the president's message states.

In the text, Bukele rejects the idea that France is condemned to irreversible decline and maintains that it still has the necessary conditions to overcome its difficulties. He is always careful when addressing the embattled government of the European country.

President Bukele also referred to the results his government achieved in just one year in the face of problems he considered far more serious than those facing France.

"We overcame, in a single year, a problem one hundred times more serious, without having the resources available to France. France could have resolved it in a week," Bukele stated.

The Salvadoran strategy has received recognition from sectors that highlight the reduction in violence, but it has also generated criticism from what the Central American president himself calls hypocritical human rights organizations, due to the mass arrests, prison conditions, and lack of due process. These observations have been addressed by Bukele himself, who clarified that defending criminals also serves as a reminder that these same organizations turn a blind eye when innocent people suffer harm at the hands of these criminals.

Bukele's message concludes with an idea of ​​national recovery: the greatness of France has not disappeared, but rather is awaiting a new impetus.