El Salvador’s “Cool Dictator” Says He’s Won Re-Election

Nayib Bukele, the millennial authoritarian president of El Salvador, said he had been re-elected to a second term in a widely expected victory on Sunday.

The official votes are still being counted—but the apparent landslide win by the self-styled “world’s coolest dictator” comes despite the country’s constitutional ban on consecutive terms, as well as international criticism that his administration’s crackdown on crime has allowed a human rights crisis to spiral under his watch.

Bukele and his New Ideas party claimed victory on Sunday, before official results were released.

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