Nayib Bukele could now rule El Salvador for life

August 3, 2025August 2, 2025 by Farhan

To those familiar with the autocrat’s playbook, Nayib Bukele’s latest move was not surprising. On July 31st El Salvador’s legislative assembly, dominated by his New Ideas party, voted to remove presidential term limits from the constitution. Mr Bukele is now able to seek re-election indefinitely. Aged just 44, he could rule El Salvador’s 6.3m people … Read more

Human rights crisis in El Salvador ‘deepening’: Amnesty

March 27, 2024 by Farhan

Rights group says President Nayib Bukele has reduced gang violence by replacing it with state violence. As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele embarks on his second term in office, an international rights group has warned that his war on gangs has created a spiralling human rights crisis. As of February 2024, Bukele’s draconian two-year campaign, … Read more