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Bukelismo
Nuevas Ideas · 2019– · El Salvador · Technocratic Populist · Held state power · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Mass incarceration of suspected gang members under a permanent state of exception, sold as the trade of civil liberties for physical safety.
Economic model
Bitcoin as legal tender, tourism and investment promotion, IMF agreement, tax incentives for foreign capital.
Organisation of powers
Legislature and constitutional chamber replaced by allies in 2021, re-election achieved despite an explicit constitutional prohibition, approval ratings above eighty percent.
Reading note
The most consequential political export in the Americas right now. Its coordinates make the trade explicit rather than settling whether it was worth it.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +05
Coded +5: investment promotion and the bitcoin experiment alongside an IMF programme and high public debt.
- Documented act or statuteBitcoin was made legal tender in 2021 and its mandatory-acceptance status removed under the 2025 IMF agreement.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +06
Coded +6: a security-first social order with conservative positions on family policy.
- Documented act or statuteGender studies content was removed from the public school curriculum in 2024.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +08
Elected with very high approval, and the constraints on the office removed one by one.
- Documented act or statuteThe legislature removed the constitutional chamber judges and the attorney general in May 2021.
- Documented act or statuteThe reconstituted court then permitted consecutive re-election despite an explicit constitutional prohibition.
- Documented act or statuteA state of exception suspending due process has been renewed continuously since March 2022.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +06
Coded +6: municipalities consolidated from 262 to 44 in 2023.
- Documented act or statuteThe municipal reorganisation was passed months before local elections and reduced opposition-held territory.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +03
Coded mildly positive: membership defined by conduct rather than ancestry, with mass exclusion by suspicion.
- Documented act or statuteAround 2% of the adult population has been detained under the state of exception, largely without individualised charge.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +02
Coded +2: elected, and with the legislature entered by armed soldiers in 2020 during a funding dispute.
- Documented act or statuteSoldiers were deployed inside the legislative chamber in February 2020 to press a loan vote.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
- National Resistance Movement2.6
- Congolese Post-War Politics2.6
- Brazilian Military Regime3.3
- Rwandan Patriotic Front3.5
- Philippine Personalist Blocs3.5
- Fujimorism3.5
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