U.S. dampens criticism of El Salvador's president as migration overtakes democracy concerns

The Biden administration has sent a high-level delegation to El Salvador to attend President Nayib Bukele's inauguration to a second term

In 2021, the Biden administration turned down a meeting request with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on a trip to the U.S. capital, snubbing the self-proclaimed “world's coolest dictator” for fear a photo op would embolden his attempts to expand his power base. A little more than three years later, it's Washington that's courting Bukele.

sanctioned several of Bukele's top aides on allegations of corruption and shifted foreign assistance from government agencies to civil society groups highly critical of Bukele. In 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris said the U.S. has “ deep concerns about El Salvador's democracy ' after lawmakers loyal to Bukele removed several Supreme Court justices that were among the last check on the president's power.

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