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Armando Bukele Kattán was born in San Salvador, on December 16, 1944, the son of Humberto Bukele Salman and Victoria Kattán de Bukele. His parents were Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem in Ottoman Palestine and had emigrated to El Salvador at the beginning of the 20th century as part of an emigration wave. [2]
On 14 November 2023, Bukele accompanied Nayib, Eric Doradeo, the vice minister of culture, and Zhang Yanhu, the Chinese ambassador to El Salvador, on a filmed tour of the newly-built National Library of El Salvador. [27] Bukele accompanied Nayib on 26 October 2023 when the latter initiated the process to register his 2024 re-election campaign. [28]
Héctor Silva, the Nuestro Tiempo candidate for mayor of San Salvador wrote on X, "The current state of democracy in El Salvador: the office of the president of the Republic will by occupied by a person who nobody ever voted for" ("Estado actual de la democracia en El Salvador: la oficina del presidente de la República la ocupará una persona ...
As bitcoin reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first tim e, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele was triumphant on Thursday about his big bet on the cryptocurrency. The adoption of ...
Forty thousand children have seen one parent or both detained in President Nayib Bukele’s nearly two-year war on El Salvador’s gangs, according to the national social se The president jailed 1 ...
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -President Nayib Bukele on Sunday secured a thumping victory in El Salvador's elections after voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a ...
Most of El Salvador's COVID-19 vaccines were donated by the United States and China. [166] [167] On 13 May 2021, Bukele donated 34,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to seven towns in Honduras after pleas from their mayors for vaccine doses. [168] El Salvador had received 1.9 million doses at the time, and Honduras had only received 59,000. [169]
El Salvador stands at a crossroads between popular sentiment and adherence to constitutional principles.