The 42-year-old president rules with an iron fist, the critics claim. But he is the most popular leader in all of Latin America.
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, announced in 2021 the plan to build the world’s first “bitcoin city”. Photo: José Cabezas, Reuters/NTB
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“The world’s coolest dictator”, “philosopher-king”, “CEO of El Salvador”, “God’s instrument”.
These are some of the ways in which the Salvadoran president describes himself.
When Nayib Bukele ran for president for the New Ideas party in 2019, he promised to do something about the violence in the Central American country.
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2023-08-13 10:13:55
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