Vukéli is using all of this to run for re-election in February next year. He's got the constitutional court to say that it's okay to do this. By stepping down six months before, he would take office, and then he can obviously come back again. There are lots of countries in the region that have their own issues with gangs. And we're starting to see some people who are trying to call people Kayle. We need to be very clear that the path our Salvador is going down.
A country that was not long ago gripped by gang violence and crime is slowly emerging from fear, thanks to a brutal roundup of young men by a wildly popular, social-media-savvy president. The streets may be safer, but now it is El Salvador’s democracy that is in danger—and neighbouring countries’ leaders may take lessons from its budding autocrat.
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