Defying a constitutional ban on serving consecutive terms, President Nayib Bukele is set to win Sunday’s vote in a landslide
https://carnegieendowment.org/2024/02/02/2024-election-to-watch-el-salvador-pub-91538
El Salvador and its 6.3 million inhabitants have traditionally not been in the international limelight. Yet President Nayib Bukele’s controversial strategy to fight organized crime—which involved suspending some civil rights and detaining more than 70,000 people, leaving nearly 2 percent of the Central American country’s population in prison—has continuously made global headlines. The strategy has resulted in plummeting homicide rates, transforming the country from one of Latin America’s most dangerous into one of its safest. It has also made Bukele into a highly visible…
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