Nayib Bukele's origin story: a millennial's ambition | International
The president of El Salvador began his political career as a small-town mayor, realizing his destiny for power.
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The president of El Salvador began his political career as a small-town mayor, realizing his destiny for power.
His New Ideas party won a landslide election victory
Nayib Bukele, Latin Americaâs youngest president, doesnât much like venturing into the street, or indigenous people, or wandering around markets, or being photographed with other peopleâs babies. The 39-year-old leader of El Salvador instead enjoys his cellphone, public image polls and âimplementing, implementing, implementing.â This has proven sufficient to sweep away three decades of bipartisanism and drastically transform the political landscape of a country still marked by the wounds of a bloody civil war (1980-1992) that ended when Bukele was barely 10. In the vi...