President Nayib Bukele's use of armed soldiers in El Salvador's parlia...
SAN SALVADOR - President Nayib Bukele’s use of armed soldiers in El Salvador’s parliament over the weekend has alarmed political foes and rights groups, with growing fears about democratic backsliding in the crime-ravaged Central American nation.
The show of force inside the country’s parliament drew condemnation from across the political spectrum and some foreign nations, amid worries El Salvador’s young democracy may be harmed by presidential overreach. “The eyes of the world are on El Salvador and @nayibbukele at this critical moment,” he added, in a post on the committee’s Twitter account.
The youthful president, who identified as a leftist at the start of his political career with the FMLN before changing parties, has sky-high popularity ratings after overturning the moribund two-party system in an election last year. Bukele wants lawmakers to agree to a $109 million loan to help equip police and soldiers in the fight against crime in a nation racked by gang violence. He gave them a week-long deadline to pass the loan legislation, without specifying what action he would take if they failed to meet his demands.
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