Nayib Bukele was exultant Sunday night in San Salvador, telling jubilant supporters to look forward to what his government is going to do “in these next five years” after a sweeping election win.
No other modern El Salvadorean president has received a “next five years,” as the constitution forbade it until Bukele manouevred to run again.
His Nuevas Ideas party is expected to win a majority of seats in El Salvador’s legislature.
Bukele campaigned in no small part on a drastic reduction in the violent crime rate, which not long ago was among the worst in the world. He whipped up fear of
