There is a growing consensus that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's Covid-19 response is part of a broader trend of weakening of democratic institutions in the country. (See Monday's post and Wednesday's briefs.) Nayib Bukele won El Salvador's presidency with promises of change last year -- so far the change seems mainly aimed at wrecking the country's tenuous democracy, according to the
Bukele's authoritarian slide (May 8, 2020)
Bukele's authoritarian slide (May 8, 2020)
Bukele's authoritarian slide (May 8, 2020)
There is a growing consensus that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's Covid-19 response is part of a broader trend of weakening of democratic institutions in the country. (See Monday's post and Wednesday's briefs.) Nayib Bukele won El Salvador's presidency with promises of change last year -- so far the change seems mainly aimed at wrecking the country's tenuous democracy, according to the