Thursday, May 13 – President Bukele: El Salvador’s Authoritarian Ruler?

After his New Ideas party swept legislative elections in February 2021, President Nayib Bukele swiftly moved to eliminate all checks on his power. Mary Jo McConahay, a prize-winning author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker who covered the war in El Salvador moderates this discussion with Tim Muth, a US-trained lawyer and author of the blog, El Salvador Perspectives; Gabriel Labrador, an investigative journalist with El Faro, El Salvador’s award-winning digital newspaper; and Tiziano Breda, Analyst for Central America with the International Crisis Group. Watch the talk here.