Just getting started: El Salvador’s president for life
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
First he came for the gangs; then, for his critics. Now Nayib Bukele has come for El Salvador’s constitution, and there is little to stop him staying in office indefinitely. America’s paltry fertility numbers show a counterintuitive pattern: births are falling fastest where they were once highest. And France’s Provence region becomes a brand unto itself.
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