Nayib Bukele: the tough-on-crime former ad man set to secure new El Salvador term
In June 2019, a week after taking office as El Salvador's youngest president in modern history, Nayib Bukele wrote on his Twitter account: "I am officially the coolest president in the world." Bukele's self-congratulatory tweet came after he had used the same social network - now known as X - to fire around 400 officials, some accused of nepotism or with links to his leftist predecessor. Tired of decades of corruption and traditional parties' ineffectiveness in the face of surging violence and a stagnant economy, Salvadorans embraced the then 37-year-old jeans-clad f...
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