
“I welcome you as if you were the president of another country,” Bukele said in a suit to a boy in a t-shirt and black pants. I can’t say who is the better known of the two on screen: the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, with 7.7 million followers on X or the Murcian YouTuber The Grefg, with 19.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. I guess it depends who you ask. And how old are you.
The YouTuber, who is one of the content creators who reside in Andorra to pay less taxes, traveled to El Salvador to make a video inside CECOT, the Salvadoran macro-prison that mainly houses members of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs – and this last year, Trump deportees -; and another of an interview lasting almost an hour at the Presidential House with the president of the country, known among other things for his authoritarian spiral to perpetuate himself in power, media censorship, his war against gangs or his commitment to bitcoin.