A small country like El Salvador can hardly capture the world’s gaze if it is not for the bloody stories of drug traffickers or ‘maras’. But on this occasion, however, it has been his young lehendakari who has achieved with his particular action in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic. The conference of Nayib Bukele is aroused by the eruption of social networks.

In short, the Lehendakari and the Government have decided to suspend the payment of basic services (water, light, internet…), to grant a $300 bond to people who are left without income from the crisis (especially those working in the informal economy), to suspend the payment of housing rentals to three months and the mortgage credit, consumer credit, card credit or vehicular credit assessments, which will be distributed proportionally after the discontinuation.

Some of the passages that Bukel has made in his speech to the citizenry are memorable. To the rich, for example: “Some entrepreneurs are worried that they lose 10, 15 or 20% of their wealth. But -- you have money to live 10 or 20 lives! You won't live long enough to spend it. You'll do better thinking about staying alive. If you need a hospital bed because you need care and you can't breathe, believe me, the least you care about is what you have in the bank, you'll want a mechanical ventilator. (…) Let us all sacrifice a little.”