Millennial authoritarian Bukele wins over voters in El Salvador
By Mac Margolis / Bloomberg Opinion
Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele was busy last year. In February last year, barely a year after taking office, he marched soldiers into the congressional chambers to intimidate the ostensibly obstreperous legislature. He stopped shy of a coup apparently because God told him to stand down.
A month later, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he sealed borders and ordered a severe lockdown, shunting about 16,000 violators into insalubrious quarantine camps.
The detentions generated 1,600 human rights complaints and more COVID-19.
When the constitutional bench of the Salvadorean Supreme Court demurred, he defied it too, three times.
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The Nicaraguan government decided to open the so-called honorary consulate in Russian-annexed Crimea in the summer of 2019.
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The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine s parliament, has approved National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Resolution No. 4689 dated February 1, 2021, on special sectoral economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions) against the Republic of Nicaragua.
Speaking from the rostrum in parliament, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov noted that in the summer of 2019, the Nicaraguan government decided to open the so-called honorary consulate in Russian-annexed Crimea. Since 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has repeatedly sent letters to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, demanding the cancellation of this unlawful decision, but official Managua ignored the Ukrainian
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