And we also asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs for his perspective on Salvador's recent presidential election - that saw Nayib Bukele re-elected with a stunning 87% mandate.
But we also saw Salvadoreans living in Belize participate in those elections at a voting center right in Belmopan.
Is this something the Government of Belize would ever consider creating for Belizeans in the diaspora?
The Minister of Foreign Affairs says it's an avenue that they are willing to explore but it will take many discussions and planning to put together:
Francis Fonseca, Minister of Foreign Affairs
"Yeah I think you know that was something the government of Salvador obviously they have legal authority to have, Salvadorans who live outside of their country vote that's established by law in El Salvador, and so when that request came to Belize, we obliged to support and help them to carry that out. We have not reached that point in Belize. I think it is a good Issue for discussion whether we won't Belizeans in the diaspora to participate in elections. I think now that we are going through the process of reviewing the constitution and the PCC process I think that is an ideal opportunity for us to discuss an issue like this. I think it is definitely worthy of debate worthy of discussion and at the end of the day, I think it's something we can look at, but we are not there, yet in the case of Salvador, they already have that as a part of their law."
"We are not yet at that point yet and so as I said this represents, I think the PCC represents an opportunity for us to have that in discussion and perhaps coming out of this PCC process is something that believes they want to do but let's see what comes out of the process."
Jo
"Were you surprised at the turnout to see how many Salvadorans we have living in Belize?"
Francis Fonseca, Minister of Foreign Affairs
"I was not surprised I know that we have had them since 1980s significant population of Salvador against living in Belize and of course they have since that time they've had lots of children so we have a substantive a substantial population of Salvadoran living in Belize so I was not surprised by the turnout especially in that area and Belmopan the surrounding communities there is a large population of Salvadoran immigrants, who many of them have, of course become Belizeans."
