1With almost 53.7% of the votes in his favor, Nayib Bukele has become the youngest leader in recent history in El Salvador.
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2Bukele is the son of a Muslim father from Bethlehem (West Bank), who promoted the construction of one of the first mosques in Latin America.
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3Nayib Bukele's main strategists are his three brothers, Karim, Ibrajim and Yusef Bukele Ortez, children of the couple formed by Armando Bukele Kattán and Olga Ortez.
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4Bukele is married to the child psychologist, Gabriela Rodríguez, with whom he began dating a decade ago and accompanies him in most of his political activities.
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5Bukele has defined himself as the 'coolest' president in the world.
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Through social networks, Bukele has dismissed ministers, ordered proceedings, criticized the press, inaugurated public works, announced his wedding and showed his daughter's ultrasound.
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7The President of El Salvador is fond of video games, a lover of luxuries and expensive cars.
On April 8, 2019, he published a video in which he appears driving a car with the message: "El Salvador will have a president who knows how to drive Ferraris without crashing into the roundabouts."
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8Nayib Bukele is described as "a guy addicted to surveys and polls about his image, what the street thinks, unable to attend a conversation because he is constantly looking at the phone."
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9In April 2020, Nayib Bukele authorized the Police and the Army to use “lethal force” to defend the population and fight the maras (gangs) in El Salvador.
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10The Salvadoran president launched the Territorial Control Plan with which he has deployed thousands of soldiers in the country, seeking to reduce the levels of violence.
The gangs responded by putting 40 dead on the table, which angered the president who ordered all terrorist groups to be mixed in the same cell in the country's prisons.
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11Bukele has in the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, one of his references for the fight against corruption and his fight against traditional parties.
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12On Sunday, February 28, almost five and a half million Salvadorans will vote in elections that point to Bukele's party as the winner.
If the polls are confirmed, that will allow him to take full control of the Chamber, until now one of the few forces capable of putting a brake on it.
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13The Bukele Administration has defended that its Government is committed to reducing irregular migration, in reference to the caravans of migrants that periodically leave the country.
In the image a meeting with the then president of the United States, Donald Trump.
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14Different international organizations have considered that El Salvador is on the way to becoming “a Latin American dictatorship”.
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15In an interview with EL PAÍS, Bukele stated: "If I were a dictator or someone who does not respect democracy, now I would have taken control of everything."
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16The shirts of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele are one of the favorites in the markets of downtown San Salvador.
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17Yanira Martínez, 44, proudly displays a mouthpiece with Bukele's portrait on a street in San Salvador.
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The trajectory of Nayib Bukele, in pictures
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The president of El Salvador faces the legislative elections in his country. The devastating victory that is expected will guarantee that it will also control the judiciary and undertake the reform of the Constitution