‘2030 agenda has no place here’: El Salvador to fire 300 'culture' employees
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced Thursday that the Culture Ministry will fire 300 employees who he said “promote agendas that are not compatible with the vision of this Government.”
‘El Salvador is pro-life, pro-traditional family’
Bukele did not go into further detail, but the announcement came the week after he appointed Raul Castillo to the post of culture minister to "promote patriotic and family values."
Government officials celebrated the news of the mass firing. Lawmaker Alexia Rivas responded to Bukele’s announcement on X by saying: “El Salvador is pro-life, pro-traditional family and the 2030 agenda has no place here. This is what the people asked for, this is the vision of our President, and this is the path that officials must follow.”
Other lawmakers chimed in with similar remarks praising the president for waging war against the 2030 agenda. El Salvadorian taxpayers also cheered the announcement, which they view as a rejection of gender ideology.
An administration against gender ideology
Bukele, who renewed his term this month following a landslide election victory, has been openly critical of gender ideology, particularly its dissemination in schools. In February, the 42-year-old president ordered the Ministry of Education to remove “all traces” of gender propaganda from schools and colleges.
“They make us pay to have an education contrary to nature, contrary to God, contrary to the family, contrary to what parents want. That is the danger, and in the schools it must be eradicated,” Bukele said in February, adding that gender ideology in schools is a “plan to destroy the future generation.”
The shakeup at the Culture Ministry comes just weeks after ministry officials planned a drag show for families, according to Reuters. They were forced to cancel the event after outrage from religious and conservative groups.
Bukele enjoys great popularity which has been credited to his record of transforming security in the crime-ridden country by cracking down on gang violence and government corruption.
