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Carmen Escobar Correspondent Two years ago, when El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele was elected, “there were three separate branches of government” in the country, says Geoff Thale, president of the Washington Office on Latin America. “Now,” Mr. Thale says, “there’s one.” Why We Wrote This What happens when threats to democratic norms have democratic support? That familiar, difficult dilemma is playing out in El Salvador, critics of the country’s wildly popular president say. Last weekend, when El Salvador’s newly elected legislature took its seats, it voted to dismiss five Supreme Court justices and the attorney general, replacing them with Bukele sympathizers. The move prompted concern from critics at home and officials abroad, who had already feared the young president was adopting an authoritarian leadership style. 

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