This week Dominic has Juan David Rojas on the podcast. They discuss Bukele’s crime mitigation in El Salvador. They dive into authoritarianism, Bukele’s popularity, gangs and violence, how international gangs are, amongst others. Tune in now to hear everything about El Salvador and its current crime management! Juan David Rojas is a Columnist at Compact and…
Juan David Rojas is a Columnist at Compact and a Consultant. He is a subject matter expert on Latin America, where he provides advice and analysis on political, economic, foreign policy, energy and security topics. Juan is a columnist at Compact Magazine and has his work featured in American Affairs, Americas Quarterly the Journal of…
On the 1st of June 2019, Nayib Bukele was nominated President of El Salvador. Before that he was an adman, which explains how he has been so successful in branding himself as the “world’s coolest dictator”. Bukele has remade El Salvador, in the sense that he has incarcerated over 81.000 people which led to a drop…