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Nayib Bukele

President of El Salvador

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No. 17 · Friday, 17 July 2026

Trump hosts Bukele at the White House days after his third-term bid clears in El Salvador

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So what?  Washington's continued embrace of Bukele's now-unlimited-term bid, without any public reservation, signals the security and deportation-cooperation relationship outweighs democratic-backsliding concerns in this partnership, an opening for deeper joint counter-gang and removal-flight cooperation. It also sets a precedent other regional leaders eyeing their own term-limit changes will read as Washington declining to penalize the move, worth watching in Honduras' and Guatemala's own political trajectories.
Sources: Infobae · CNN en Español (16 July 2026)
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