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1 Article by: Julia Evelin Martínez

Julia Evelin Martínez is a feminist economist and professor at the Jesuit Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador.

The Pressure Cooker in El Salvador

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele has been in office eight months, and his post-ideological pretenses on the campaign trail have quickly veered to the right. In an interview, Salvadoran economist Julia Evelin Martínez assesses Bukele’s first eight months in office, the sad state of the Salvadoran left, and why she’s fervently hoping for a Bernie Sanders presidency.