Ulloa said that the U.S. media took out of context his statements related to the concept of democracy, since he referred to ‘eliminating the old way of doing democracy’ in El Salvador, with which political and economic interests and corruption emerged.

The expression is badly copied and reproduced [by other media], because what we say was that democracy was not being dismantled, because there was no democracy here, and what we were doing was creating a new situation”, he explained about the article published in the Times.

Quoted by Diario El Salvador, Ulloa added: ‘So, if there was no democracy, what were we dismantling? A corrupt regime, a rotten regime and a regime that had been built on the basis of a corrupt pact.

So, there was no democracy, there was nothing to dismantle’.

That media -he affirmed- has put the expression out of context.

Here we could not dismantle a democracy because there was no one.

We are building a new country, reiterated the vice-president.

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