El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has a 90 percent popularity rate in his country, perhaps the highest one in the region. But power has gone to his head, and his latest takeover of the Salvadoran justice system threatens to turn him into Latin America’s newest elected dictator.
On May 1, Bukele’s New Ideas Party’s congressional majority fired five key members of the Supreme Court and the country’s attorney general, in what most legal scholars agree was an unconstitutional move. Bukele immediately posted a celebratory tweet saying, “And the Salvadoran people, through their representatives, said, “DISMISSED!.”
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