Through his It could cause political problems, he said.
«Everyone said that it was an impossible task, that it had been tried unsuccessfully before, that that place was already lost and that, with our approval being so high, it was absurd to risk everything on a project with little chance of success»said the president.
Along the same lines, he recalled that one of his brothers warned him: “It is true, it is a politically unnecessary risk, but if it is achieved, everyone will remember you as the mayor who began the recovery of the Historic Center, and that is more important than a temporary political approval that sooner or later will disappear,” he added.
«So we started what seemed impossible, with the opposition of everyone: the media, political parties, the national government itself and the supposed ‘experts’ who even ordered to stop the works (we had to disobey the order and continue, while we negotiated in the Presidential House the government authorization in exchange for not publicly breaking with my then party), Bukele explained.
However, he stated that they achieved it: “We managed to rescue the small but emblematic heart of the Historic Center, and as my brother predicted, it was our greatest achievement in the mayor’s office of San Salvador.”
«Then, God and the people led us to the presidency of the Republic and other more important achievements eclipsed that achievement that at that time seemed impossible; but we never gave up on continuing and expanding it, now from the Presidency,” the president stressed.
«And we will continue doing it, against all odds, as always. We are already used to it, we work better that way. And since the presidency must not only look after San Salvador, we decided that, step by step, we will reach all the historic centers of our country, a project that is already bearing its first fruits,” concluded President Nayib Bukele.
In 2015, while in the Mayor’s Office of San Salvador, we decided to start the project to rescue the Historic Center.
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