by Brandon Young | Oct 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
El Salvador is a country that many Americans have heard of but very few know a lot about. The nation has experienced a long history of turmoil with several military dictatorships and a civil war that claimed the lives of more than 75,000 people. Against this backdrop,...
by Tobias Choyt | Aug 31, 2022 | Dartmouth College
Presidential election results in El Salvador, the tiny, Latin American nation may seem to be trivial to most Americans. This outlook, however, is far from the truth. In 2019, El Salvador elected a 37 year old populist, iconoclast and political outsider in Nayib...
by Diego Maldonado | Dec 2, 2021 | Salem State University
Two years have passed since Nayib Bukele was elected El Salvador’s 43rd president. He has since made quite an impact on his country. He has drastically changed the way the rest of the world sees El Salvador–from a country unable to get itself back up from a...
by Nicole Goshorn | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
Through the recent capture of an absolute legislative majority, the party of El Salvador’s charismatic President has set in motion a power grab to dismantle the democratic institution. In recent months, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has taken action that is...
by Kaylee Faulkner | Nov 29, 2021 | Georgia State University
How has Salvadoran democracy shifted since the 2019 presidential election of Nayib Bukele, and what has been the role of polarization within this process? Bukele’s presidency has certainly had important implications for the quality of Salvadoran democracy,...
