The Bukele Model: Why It’s Hard to Replicate
July 11, 2024
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July 11, 2024
The Bukele Model: Why It’s Hard to Replicate
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The Bukele Model: Why It’s Hard to Replicate
Summary
Voters throughout Latin America are craving solutions to the spread of organized crime. In today's episode, we’ll look in detail at how Nayib Bukele executed the crackdown on gangs in El Salvador, analyze the extent to which the model has been adopted by some politicians around the region and evaluate why that is more difficult than it seems. Our guest is Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez, a doctoral candidate in government at Harvard University. He just co-authored with Alberto Vergara, professor of p...
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