President Nayib Bukele, the self-proclaimed "world’s coolest dictator", has been confirmed in the recent election in El Salvador in February 2024, amongst critics of creeping authoritarianism.
While his political party Nuevas Ideas' initial term was marked by bold initiatives aimed at transforming El Salvador's economy, Bukele's administration has applied an authoritarian State of Emergency in March 2022, in the aim to slash the murder rate in a country that was once among the most dangerous in the world to its lowest level in three decades. Since a state of emergency was introduced in March 2022,...