President Nayib Bukele is on his way to transforming El Salvador, pushing for reforms even in academic institutions.
El Salvador’s Education Minister Jose Mauricio Pineda, under the directive of Bukele, has officially banned all educational materials related to gender ideology from public schools.
Pineda confirmed this significant policy shift on X, and said, “Confirmed: We have removed every use or trace of gender ideology from public schools.”
The education minister is at the same time responding to a post on social media about the teaching of “gender ideology” in schools.
“Given the misinformation that is circulating in the videos published by this account, we want to clarify that all this content has been expelled from guides, books, and other educational materials that were made and disseminated previously,” Pineda emphasized.
Bukele and Argentina’s Javier Milei attended the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
In his speech, the El Salvador leader called upon attendees to “unapologetically fight” against “everyone that stands for it” urging the people to reject globalism and communism.
“If you want globalism to die here too, you must be willing to unapologetically fight against everything and everyone that stands for it,” he explained. “Fight for your freedoms, fight for your rights.”
During an interview with Moms for Liberty, Bukele noted that God and traditional values should be prioritized, over “unnatural ideologies.”
“It is important that the curriculum does not carry gender ideology and all these things,” Bukele said, as reported by Breitbart.
“Parents should be informed and have a say in what their children are going to learn.”
“I think it is important to bring back God in schools, to bring back morality, civics, to learn traditional things like mathematics and history.”
“No one is against modernization; what we are against is the introduction of unnatural ideologies, anti-God, anti-family, that does not fit in our schools.”
Bukele won a landslide reelection on Feb 5, earning 85 percent of votes. His New Ideas party has also secured the majority of the seats in the legislative body.
Under his leadership, El Salvador’s most violent gangs were dismantled, and he arrested thousands of gang members, leading to a significant drop in the country’s crime rate.
During his electoral campaign, Bukele warned El Salvadorans that if not re-elected, “the war with the gangs would be put at risk.”
“The opposition will be able to achieve its true and only plan, to free the gang members and use them to return to power.”
