Thousands in El Salvador join protests against Bukele government
The Hindu
Local media estimated at least 4,000 people marched through capital San Salvador
Thousands of people in El Salvador took to the streets on October 17 in protest against President Nayib Bukele who has stoked concern that he is steadily concentrating power and who responded with changing his Twitter profile late in the day to "Emperor of El Salvador".
Local media estimated at least 4,000 people marched through capital San Salvador. They bore banners and signs decrying Mr. Bukele's ouster of Supreme Court judges, the potential for the president to seek a second consecutive term and the .
Bukele's apparent joke with his Twitter profile follows an update last month when he changed it to say "Dictator" of El Salvador.
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