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...El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on Sunday he had won the presidential election and almost all seats in the Central American country’s congress....
...El Salvador’s anti-gang policies have become a reference point for regional politicians who want to appear tough on crime....
...On the streets of San Salvador, billboards and posters of candidates are limited, as Bukele — whose TikTok followers exceed the total population of El Salvador — moved the election campaign online....
...“El Salvador never had democracy. This is the first time in history that El Salvador has democracy, and it’s not me saying it, it’s the people,” Bukele said in a rare Sunday press conference....
...“I wouldn’t be surprised if this election effectively turns El Salvador into a single-party state.”...
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...The scion of a wealthy banana-exporting family, he used emergency powers to put troops on the streets and sent the army to take control of gang-ridden jails, using tactics partly borrowed from El Salvador...
...When US authorities arrested Mexico’s former defence minister general Salvador Cienfuegos on drug trafficking charges in 2020, the Mexican government reacted furiously, latter accusing the DEA of making...
...Residents of a mostly rural region of El Salvador woke up on Tuesday to 8,000 soldiers and police patrolling the streets on a mass hunt for gang members....
...despite being an outsider and although he has a strong anti-establishment bent, is not rhetoric like Amlo [President Andrés Manuel López Obrador] in Mexico or even less like [President Nayib] Bukele in El Salvador...
...Rights groups have also warned of increasing authoritarianism in several countries in the region, including Nicaragua and in El Salvador....
...Christine Lagarde hands over a small white paper bag with something surprisingly heavy inside after sweeping through the restaurant with her customary assured elegance....
Martinelli’s plan to run for re-election next year in doubt and he also faces bribery charges
...Once the war ended in the 1990s, the US deported many of them back to El Salvador....
...Panama, El Salvador and Honduras have switched relations to China in recent years. Arévalo wants to strengthen ties with China but said he would base any decisions on what is best for the country....
...Zamora’s case comes as members of the media across the region face increasing physical and legal threats, pushing major outlets such as El Salvador’s El Faro and Nicaragua’s La Prensa to relocate abroad....
...When US agents arrested General Salvador Cienfuegos at Los Angeles international airport in October 2020 on charges of drug conspiracy and corruption, the news dropped like a bombshell across the border....
...Additional reporting by Christine Murray in Mexico City...
...China has successfully poached a series of Taiwan’s allies in Central America and the Caribbean over the past five years, including Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama and the Dominican Republic....
...The Hinkley Point C project is likely to exceed the revised £32.7bn estimate EDF put on it earlier this year after its Chinese partner CGN halted payments to cover mounting cost overruns....
...Macro Cuts In which sport did Christine Lagarde represent France as a teenager?...
...of Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his counterpart Joe Biden have been trying to repair damage done to security co-operation by US authorities’ arrest of a retired Mexican general, Salvador...
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