A shadowy group of Venezuelans with anti-Chavismo roots is deeply embedded in the Salvadoran government and oversaw the president’s successful electoral campaign
San Salvador, Feb. 9 (EFE).- El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on Friday declared Nayib Bukele the winner of the presidential election with 82.66 percent of the vote. TSE judge Dora Martínez announced in a press conference that Bukele’s ruling Nuevas Ideas party garnered a total of 2,700,725 votes (82.66 percent), the leftist Farabundo Martí …
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, celebrated a landslide electoral victory on Feb. 4, far outstripping his nearest competitor. “The opposition was pulverized,” Bukele told jubilant crowds outside the National Palace on election night. In reply to critics who warn that El Salvador is moving toward authoritarianism, he proclaimed, “we are not substituting democracy because El Salvador has never had democracy.” The leader who once called himself the “world’s coolest dictator” now boasts of being his country’s “philosopher king.”