As Nayib Bukele waged an underdog bid for the presidency of El Salvador, savvy u...
SAN SALVADOR - As Nayib Bukele waged an underdog bid for the presidency of El Salvador, savvy use of social media helped propel his rise.
The 37-year-old former mayor of San Salvador, who was sworn in on Saturday, has taken some of his first actions in office via Twitter, including giving officials the ax. Bukele, an avid social media user with more than 700,000 Twitter followers, has fired several other officials via tweet. “This is not a monarchy,” Norman Quijano, the right-wing president of the Salvadoran congress, told reporters. “The absolutist monarchies were a thing of the Middle Ages and we are in the 21st century, where institutionality must be respected.”Luis Assardo, a journalist and researcher based in Guatemala, said Bukele is embracing Twitter to gain recognition and speak directly to everyday Salvadorans.
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