Nayib Bukele

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman serving as the 81st president of El Salvador since 2019.

Bukele entered politics in 2011. In 2012, he joined the FMLN and was elected mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán. Bukele served until his 2015 election as Mayor of San Salvador, where he served until 2018. In 2017, hee founded the Nuevas Ideas political party shortly afterward and pursued a presidential campaign in 2019, and later won with 53 percent of the vote.

In March 2022, Bukele initiated a nationwide crackdown on gangs, with over 85,000 people arrested with alleged gang affiliations with MS-13 and Barrio 18.  He ran for re-election in the 2024 presidential election and won with 85 percent of the vote. Bukele is highly popular in El Salvador, where he has held a job approval rating above 75% during his entire presidency and averages above 90% approval, and is popular throughout Latin America.

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