by Maddie Novack | Apr 28, 2026 | Tulane University
Hundreds of thousands of fans filled El Salvador’s national stadium to witness Shakira’s sold out five-night residency of the “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour”. Initially the residence was only three nights, but in less than 24 hours it was sold out. Shakira’s...
by Sungeun Choi | Apr 20, 2026 | American University, George Mason University, Universities
Sungeun Choi “The coolest dictator in the world.” This is how El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bokele, describes himself on social media. It might sound like a joke, but it shows a serious problem in democracy. This is when democracy slowly breaks from the inside....
by Lexyne Rivera | Apr 17, 2026 | Boston University
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador is widely known for being well loved by his constituents. Recent polls, following his 2024 re-election, found 90% of his constituents to be in favor of Bukele and his policies. This is in spite of the fact that his re-election...
by Jacqueline Maldonado | Feb 13, 2026 | Boston University
In our assigned reading by Ozan Varol, he describes his theory of “stealth authoritarianism” as a way that “the new generation of authoritarians cloak repressive measures under the mask of law, imbue them with the veneer of legitimacy, and render authoritarian...
