Social mood dictates dictator dictates
ABC News on Aug. 22 reported El Salvador’s schools will enforce strict dress codes, mandatory, military-style haircuts and formal greetings as President Nayib Bukele appoints a former army captain to the post of education minister. For the record:
Bukele is a millennial leader who leaned toward baseball caps and jeans during his first term but has taken on more formality in his second. He shared the memo on X, writing, “to build the El Salvador we dream of, it’s clear we must completely transform our educational system.”
Our just-published September Socionomist describeshow Bukele’s has transformed his own political agenda from popular left to “using violence to acquire power” and scrapping Presidential reelection term limits. This incisive piece “El Salvador’s Bukele – Will the Self-Styled Coolest Dictator Become the Cruelest Dictator?” explains whether these new iron fist policies will lead El Salvador to peace or another Civil War.
The new September Socionomist cover story also presents an intimate look into how the undercurrents of negative social mood have fueled a wave of violence that regrettably hit home on August 8th. And much, much more.
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