Just getting started: El Salvador’s president for life

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  The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  First up, though.

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  When Nayib Bukele won El Salvador's presidential election in 2019, he was young,

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  popular, and both Salvadorans and neighboring Latin Americans could not get enough of him.

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  Mr. Pukele won the vote with his promise to crack down on El Salvador's gangs and lower the country's extremely high murder rate.

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  Now,

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  swathes of gang members are locked up in prison and the country has a murder rate that's lower than that of the United States.

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  You might call his two presidential terms an unmitigated success.

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  But recent changes the legislator has made to El Salvador's constitution suggests that Mr Bukele has got a taste for power.

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  The 44-year-old could be president of El Salvador for decades to come.

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  So tell me more about the constitutional changes you mentioned there.

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