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Bukele Makes Prison Pay March 22, 2025

The president of El Salvador hopes to make hay with an unusual business proposition. ...

Venezuela Pledges to Free Those Deported to El Salvador Jail March 18, 2025

Deported MS-13, Tren de Aragua Gang Members Arrive in El Salvador March 17, 2025

The Spring of Bukele’s Relationship With Trump February 10, 2025

After months of rapprochement, El Salvador’s president is offering his prisons and hoping for financial support in his budding friendship with the Republican administration ...

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Bukele’s Lesson on the ‘Great Man Theory’ of History September 03, 2024

The most important sentence in the Nayib Bukele profile and interview in TIME magazine is a simple question to the interviewer: “How can I ask the Salvadoran people, who often have modest meals like beans and tortillas for dinner, to pay taxes to pro...

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How Nayib Bukele’s ‘Iron Fist’ Has Transformed El Salvador August 29, 2024

Before he became arguably the most popular head of state in the world, Nayib Bukele was an adman. ...

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Unanchored in El Salvador May 08, 2024

El Salvador has become accustomed to the idea that Bukele is above its failing constitution. ...

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The Future Belongs To Right-Wing Progressives April 11, 2024

Reactionary as I am, it gives me no pleasure to report that conservatism is finished. As Britain struggles with the exhausted death-spasms of liberal Toryism, the only subset of Right-wing thought in the West today that doesn’t feel moribund is activ...

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El Salvador’s Bukele Wins Supermajority February 20, 2024

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Bukele’s Kingdom of Dreams February 20, 2024

When I arrived at Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez International Airport last month, signs advertising the Miss Universe pageant in November were still up....

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El Salvador: Bukele Confirmed as President After Final Count February 10, 2024

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Behind Bukele’s Revolution February 06, 2024

On Sunday around 7 p.m., El Salvador’s 42-year-old president, Nayib Bukele, announced on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, that he and his party, Nuevas Ideas, had set “a record in the history of the democratic world,” winning more than 85 percen...

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El Salvador’s Bukele Re-Elected as President in Landslide Win February 05, 2024

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In Defense of El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele February 05, 2024

“El Salvador’s success in fighting crime has come at the expense of civil rights and amid accusations that Bukele is taking an increasingly authoritarian turn,” opined Marcelo Rochabrun, chief of Bloomberg’s Lima bureau, in a recent column....

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