El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, already enjoying sky-high popularity at home due to his controversial but highly successful crackdown on criminal gangs, is acquiring a growing list of disciples abroad. Few have been as effusive in their praise as the governments of
Ecuador and
Peru, which have begun to copy Bukele’s blueprint. But, notwithstanding accusations that the strategy is built on a system of rampant human rights abuses, it is questionable whether ‘Bukelismo’ could be replicated in the Andean region as the first piece in this March 2024 edition of the
Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group explores.
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