El Salvador Archives

Column

I don’t care if they call me a dictator.

By Nina Chaparro González | August 15, 2025

During his six years in office, Bukele has consolidated his power, paving the way to become the dictator he appears to be announcing himself as.

Column

Bukele: the savior? (II)

By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | June 4, 2023

Bukele’s immense popularity does not legitimize his assault on the rule of law, as he is destroying the foundations of democracy, just as similar assaults by Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, and Chavismo in Venezuela have not been legitimized.

Column

Bukele: the savior?

By Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes | May 28, 2023

This saga involving Bukele deserves to be known in Colombia because there are certain sectors, especially on the right, that rightly criticize similar processes of destruction of the rule of law by Ortega in Nicaragua or Maduro in Venezuela, but remain silent in the face of this assault on democracy in El Salvador.