#472 | Nayib Bukele | “The World’s Coolest Di...

⚡️ "The British Comedy Challenge" starts Monday, 9th Nov: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/challenges/the-british-comedy-challenge--Italy builds Ferraris and Lamborghinis, welcomes millions of tourists, and produces food, fashion and design admired around the world. Yet beneath al ...  Show more

⚡️ "The British Comedy Challenge" starts Monday, 9th Nov: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/challenges/the-british-comedy-challenge--In 1925, Victor Lustig convinced a Paris scrap-metal dealer that the French government was selling the Eiffel Tower. His secret was a mixture of offi ...  Show more

Not long ago, the tiny nation of El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the world. Now, it has the highest incarceration rate. President Nayib Bukele – who has described himself as “the world’s coolest dictator” – has detained 70,000 gang suspects without trial. His supporter ...  Show more

That’s how El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele describes himself. Silvia Viñas from the news podcast El hilo explains how his victory this weekend is a blueprint for authoritarians looking to get reelected in a democracy. This episode was produced by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, edited by Am ...  Show more

Since 2019, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has smashed the country’s two main gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18, throwing almost 80,000 people into megaprisons and implementing a harsh but effective “state of exception,” aka martial law. Murder rates have plummeted and, for the first ...  Show more