Blog Post Aug 23, 2022 Bukele’s Authoritarian Path in El Salvador In 2019, Nayib Bukele shook El Salvador’s political scene, becoming the first democratically-elected president in decades who was not a member of either of the country’s two major political parties — the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) or the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).
