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Men wear Guy Fawkes masks during an anti-government match to protest the policies of President Nayib Bukele, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, October 17, 2021
THOUSANDS marched in El Salvador on Sunday demanding the resignation of President Nayib Bukele, whom they brand a dictator, as he seeks a second term of office.
Local media estimated about 4,000 people took to the streets of the capital San Salvador, raising slogans reading: “Democracy is not up for negotiation, it is defended.”
Anger has risen against the 40-year-old president’s rule, which opponents say has become increasingly authoritarian in character.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
