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El Salvador's new president must tackle crime, unemployment and migration — but nation is hopeful

  • Written by Marcia D. Mundt, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, USIP Peace Scholar, and Fulbright-Hays Fellow, University of Massachusetts Boston
El Salvador's new president must tackle crime, unemployment and migration — but nation is hopeful

Ever since its civil war ended in 1992, El Salvador has been governed by two parties: the conservative National Republican Alliance and its former wartime enemy, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a guerrilla insurgency turned political party.

That old antagonism ended when 37-year-old Nayib Bukele won the country’s presidential...

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