The government of The Savior demolished this Wednesday the monument to Reconciliationsymbol of the end of the bloody civil war (1980-1992), described by President Nayib Bukele as “unsightly” and an apology for pacts between the left and the right.
Bukele, currently out of office as he is a candidate for reelection, celebrated the demolition of what he called “the supposed ‘monument to reconciliation,'” which, according to him, a critic of the 1992 peace agreements, symbolized a “pact.” between former guerrillas and soldiers that did not mean well-being for Salvadorans.
“Not only was it aesthetically horrible, but glorified the pact between the murderers of our peopleto share the cake,” he said on the social network X.
These are three bronze statues, two of seven meters that symbolized a former guerrilla combatant and a soldier in a fatigue suit, unarmed, with their hands clasped releasing aluminum doves, and that represented the sides of the past conflict.
The third statue, 12 meters tall, is that of a mother with outstretched arms who had a ring on her right finger that represented society’s commitment to living in peace.