Backtracking on Bukele
Biden’s policy reversal towards El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ exposes the cynical emptiness of the empire’s democratic vocation, writes Gavin O'Toole
Latin America’s youngest dictator is celebrating his “re-election” after flouting the laws of his country, ditching human rights, doing deals with criminal gangs, and swallowing the media.
None of this should surprise us—Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is heir to a long line of distasteful despots who wouldn’t recognise demo…