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Nayib Bukele
Nayib Bukele is a Salvadoran businessman and politician, former mayor of San Salvador, who became president in 2019. From 2022 he ruled under a state of exception that led to the imprisonment of tens of thousands of suspected gang members and a sharp fall in homicides, while critics denounced abuses and the erosion of checks and balances. He made bitcoin legal tender in 2021 and was re-elected in 2024.
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