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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bukele is a really great president.[/quote]

He has really cleaned up El Salvador. [/quote]

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He certainly has. But at a cost.

Bukele has extended his emergency powers through repeated monthly renewals of the state of emergency since March 2022, enabling anti-gang crackdown at the cost of civil liberties. He also secured an unconstitutional second term in 2024 by manipulating judicial and electoral processes, raising concerns about authoritarianism.

Sound familiar? It turns out people will give away a lot of their rights in exchange for the illusion of law and order and security. It’ll be interesting to see how he holds on to power once he’s “taken care of” the gang problem and the country is “safe.” The El Salvador economy is still not good. GDP growth remains low (1.9% in 2024), public debt is high (84% of GDP), poverty affects 27% of households, and food costs have risen 10.8% since 2022.

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