President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been praised for his efforts in combating gangs and jumpstarting the economy, but criticism arises regarding civil liberties and potential authoritarian tendencies. Bukele's charisma and strategic success have rebranded El Salvador, with his New Ideas party securing a supermajority in Congress.
Bukele cleaned up El Salvador the way Giuliani cleaned up New York. https://t.co/ZiYlGij1H0
This month, incumbent Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele seemed poised to easily win reelection and sweep the legislature with his New Ideas party. But when his legislative supermajority seemed in doubt, Bukele and his supporters resorted to outright fraud. https://t.co/sjVUxotZcU
“The ‘something new’ promised by Ulloa looks suspiciously like something old, one-man rule. Even so, Bukele’s popularity is complicating efforts to counter his corrosive effect on democracy”, writes Dinámica Americas’s Ricardo Zúniga for @TheWilsonCenter’s @LATAMProg.
This was maybe the most important point I tried to make about Bukele. Salvadorans accept that the severity of crime required the suspension of constitutional rights. But for a leader a serious about nation building, the larger task must be the expansion of state capacity./1 https://t.co/Cjz4B2rQkv
⚠️ EL SALVADOR CONFIRMS RULING PARTY SUPERMAJORITY IN CONGRESS Full Story → https://t.co/wHcP5Vod96 El Salvador's electoral authority on Monday confirmed that President Nayib Bukele's New Ideas party won 54 of 60 seats in Congress in elections earlier this month, after… https://t.co/XN6n0uaqbu
“It was Bukele’s popularity that enabled the defeat of the gangs, and not the other way around.” In my report from El Salvador, I attempt to get beyond the familiar narratives. Free to read, but please subscribe for 66% off to support @compactmag_: https://t.co/7W7Om2RoNA https://t.co/lllsX835LG
The most striking features of Nayib Bukele’s presidency in El Salvador are his charisma, political skill, and strategic success. Bukele has rebranded El Salvador through various spectacles and initiatives, such as hosting international events and becoming the first country to…
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has waged a “war on gangs,” imprisoning 1.6% of the country’s population. But this "war" comes at the cost of civil liberties https://t.co/EpL3yABhDv https://t.co/LZy1RGqFEx
Reporting from El Salvador, I wrote on how Bukele has conquered the imagination as well as the streets. This is free to read, but please subscribe for for a year for 66% off to support @compactmag_ and get access to all our content: https://t.co/7W7Om2RoNA https://t.co/vVtpM0juVV
I went to El Salvador last month. In this reported piece I try to make sense of the Bukele phenomenon, the end of the End of History, the neoliberal political economy of gangs, public space and the collective imagination, and more: https://t.co/8auGr1m6GY
“The power exerted by gangs amounted to an acutely oppressive form of neoliberal privatization.” Don’t miss this blockbuster reported essay on Bukele’s El Salvador, full of surprising insights, from my colleague @g_shullenberger https://t.co/FHFCFqybSG
If other Bukeles in waiting try to copy what he has done, they are more likely to replicate only the dark side of El Salvador’s model, and not its achievements, writes @WillGFreeman. https://t.co/DuDwgh6uPQ
"With El Salvador’s gangs defeated, Bukele’s second administration will hinge on a different challenge: jumpstarting the economy," writes @WillGFreeman. https://t.co/dhx1AD3tmo
My @GlobeIdeas column: "As Bukele was wrecking El Salvador’s fledgling democracy, he was also freeing millions of Salvadorans from lives of unrelenting fear. He offers his people a deal: I will guarantee your security if you give me absolute power." https://t.co/Ofvoqp0SRZ
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has waged a “war on gangs,” imprisoning 1.6% of the country’s population. With a possible second term around the corner, those numbers could skyrocket. But this "war" comes at the cost of civil liberties https://t.co/Wf81ZbwNB0 https://t.co/rNh9WDWV4n