Opinion Bukele and the Latin American Trilemma

Luis Gouveia Jr

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Mar 23 2026

It is withhuge enthusiasm that the Latin American righthas observed the measures taken by Nayib Bukele, incumbent president of El Salvador since 2019. According to his government, homicide rates in the country have dropped to 1.9 homicides per hundred thousand inhabitants. If El Salvador had a homicide rate frequently above 50 deaths/