Salvadorans are already voting in elections that are expected to give reelection and greater power to President Nayib Bukele. He is applauded for putting ruthless gangs behind bars with a relentless "war" that suspended civil liberties.
In a vote for the first time under a state of emergency since the civil war ended in 1992, some 6.2 million Salvadorans, 740,000 of them abroad, are called to vote in a ten-hour day that will close at 8 p.m.