First, El Salvador is not a dictatorship. President Bukele and his party won in a free election and everyone expects he will win re-eelection in 2024.
Second, no branch of government has been eliminated. What happened is that his party impeached the justices on their supreme court, replacing them with justices from his party. In fact, "packing" the court, the same thing leftists are urging the Democrats to do in the USA.
Third, the claim that the IMF does not lend to dictators is obviously untrue.
If either party in the US somehow managed to impeach the entire Supreme Court and replace the judges with partisans, it sounds fair to say that a branch of government has been eliminated.
Didn’t Bukele also declare martial law? That’s another traditional tool on the way to a dictatorship.
And also forced retirement for experienced officials in many government instutions, including the Ministry of Education [1], Judges [2], and Police [3].
Second, no branch of government has been eliminated. What happened is that his party impeached the justices on their supreme court, replacing them with justices from his party. In fact, "packing" the court, the same thing leftists are urging the Democrats to do in the USA.
Third, the claim that the IMF does not lend to dictators is obviously untrue.