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Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez (Spanish pronunciation: [naˈʝiβ buˈkele]; born 24 July 1981) is a Salvadoran politician and businessman currently serving as the 43rd president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019. He is the first Salvadoran president since 1989 who was not elected as a candidate of one of the country's two major political parties: the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), of which Bukele was formerly a member. Beginning in 1999, Bukele worked at an advertising company owned by his father and also established his own advertising company. Both his and his father's companies advertised election campaigns for the FMLN. In 2011, Bukele announced that he would enter politics, and in 2012, he officially became a member of the FMLN. That year, he was elected as the mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán and served until 2015. That same year, Bukele was elected as the mayor of San Salvador and served until 2018. In 2017, Bukele was ousted from the FMLN, and shortly afterwards, he founded the Nuevas Ideas political party with which he sought to pursue a presidential campaign in 2019. After the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) refused to register his party, Bukele ran for president with the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA) and won with 53 percent of the vote. In July 2019, Bukele implemented the Territorial Control Plan, an anti-gang program that sought to reduce the country's homicide rate of 38 per 100,000 people in 2019. Homicides decreased by 50 percent during Bukele's first year in office, which he attributed to the Territorial Control Plan. However, El Faro digital newspaper and the United States Department of State accused Bukele's government of secretly negotiating with gangs to reduce the homicide rate. After 87 people were killed by gangs during a single weekend in March 2022, Bukele initiated a nationwide crackdown on gangs. This has resulted in the arrests of over 79,000 people with alleged gang affiliations as of 2 April 2024, with over 12,000 of them incarcerated at the newly constructed Terrorism Confinement Center. The country's homicide rate decreased to 2.4 homicides per 100,000 in 2023, the second lowest in the Americas after Canada. In 2021, Bukele passed a law which declared bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador, and he has promoted plans to build a Bitcoin City powered by geothermal energy to mine bitcoin. In June 2023, the Legislative Assembly approved Bukele's proposals to reduce the number of municipalities from 262 to 44 and the number of seats in the Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60. Politicians, activists, and journalists have accused Bukele of governing in an authoritarian and autocratic manner. In February 2020 Bukele ordered 40 soldiers into the Legislative Assembly building to intimidate lawmakers to approve a US$109 million loan for the Territorial Control Plan. In May 2021, after Nuevas Ideas won a supermajority in the Legislative Assembly in that year's legislative election, Bukele's allies in the legislature voted to remove and replace the attorney general and all five justices of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. Bukele has attacked journalists and news media outlets on social media and has implemented laws that critics claim censor the press. Bukele ran for re-election in the 2024 presidential election and won with over 85% of the vote, after the Supreme Court reinterpreted the constitution's ban on consecutive re-election. Before Bukele's presidency, he considered himself to be a member of the "radical left". Since becoming president, he has not identified with any political ideology. During Bukele's presidency, political analysts have described him as a populist and a conservative. Bukele retains high job approval ratings and is highly popular both within El Salvador and across Latin America. Early life Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born on 24 July 1981 in San Salvador, El Salvador. His father was Armando Bukele Kattán, a businessman and industrial chemist, and his mother is Olga Marina Ortez; Bukele's father died in 2015. Bukele was the couple's first child. He has three younger brothers: Karim, Yusef, and Ibrajim. He also has four half-sisters and two half-brothers from his father's side of the family. Bukele's father converted to Islam from Christianity in the 1980s, became an imam, and founded four mosques in El Salvador; Bukele's mother is a Roman Catholic. Bukele's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians who immigrated to El Salvador from Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 1921; Bukele's maternal grandfather was a Greek Orthodox and his maternal grandmother was a Roman Catholic. Bukele completed his secondary education from the Escuela Panamericana in 1999 at the age of 18. He enrolled at the Central American University in San Salvador to study judicial sciences with aspirations to become a lawyer, but he dropped out to work for the Nölck advertising agency, one of his father's businesses. Nölck campaigned for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a left-wing Salvadoran political party. In 1999, Bukele founded Obermet, S.A. de C.V. (also known as 4am Saatchi & Saatchi El Salvador), a marketing company. He served as its president from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2012. This company ran political advertising for the FMLN presidential campaigns of Schafik Hándal in 2004 and Mauricio Funes in 2009.: 239  From 2005 to 2007, Bukele was the president of CLS, a company which issued Salvadoran passports. From 2006 to 2010, Bukele was the president of Nölck, for which he previously worked for. From 2009 to 2012, Bukele was the president of Yamaha Motors El Salvador, a company that sells and distributes Yamaha products in El Salvador. During Bukele's career as a businessman, he described himself as a "businessman with a great future" ("empresario con gran futuro"). Early political career Mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán In 2011, Bukele announced that he would enter politics as a member of the FMLN. He stated that his reason for doing so was to get out of "his comfort zone" ("su zona de confort") as a businessman. Bukele officially joined the FMLN in 2012 and campaigned to be elected as the mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán, a municipality in the department of La Libertad which is a part of the San Salvador metropolitan area. Bukele's campaign was supported by the Democratic Change political party. On 11 March 2012, Bukele was elected as mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán with 51.67 percent of the vote. He defeated Tomás Rodríguez of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), who was his primary challenger. Bukele took office on 1 May 2012 becoming the country's youngest mayor. As mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán, Bukele created a scholarship program for youths in the municipality; he donated his salary of US$2,000 to fund the program. On 27 August 2014, Bukele launched Sphere PM, a project which launched a high-altitude balloon t.... Discover the Sandra Bradley Sara Palacios popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sandra Bradley Sara Palacios books.