Nayib Bukele
President of El Salvador since 2019
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| April 2025 | Bukele meets Trump in the Oval Office to discuss immigration. |
| March 2025 | The United States deports 238 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador. |
| 2025 | Bukele remarked that he was 'mistaken' for having previously voted for the FMLN. |
| March 4 2025 | The state of exception has been extended 36 times, with over 85,000 suspected gang members arrested, including 3,319 minors, and El Salvador's prison population reaching over 105,000. |
| March 4 2025 | State of exception is extended for the 36th time by the Legislative Assembly. Over 85,000 suspected gang members have been arrested, including 3,319 minors, and more than 8,000 people have been released after being determined innocent. |
| February 2025 | Bukele offered Secretary of State Rubio to accept non-Salvadoran deportees from the United States, including convicted American prisoners. |
| 2025 | Bukele claimed that most independent journalists and media outlets were part of a supposed 'global money laundering operation'. |
| January 29 2025 | The Salvadoran government amended the Bitcoin Law, removing bitcoin's status as legal tender and currency while still allowing its use as payment. |
| January 2025 | Bukele's government began negotiating with the U.S. government to become a safe third country and accept non-Salvadorans for deportation. |
| January 14 2025 | Bukele announced economic relief measures providing government subsidies for basic water and electricity services for Salvadoran households, covering up to $30 in water billing and $80 in electricity for residential sectors, estimated to benefit 95% of households. |
| January 3 2025 | First Salvadoran soldiers arrive in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission. |
| 2024 | Became one of the first world leaders to congratulate Donald Trump after his victory in the 2024 United States presidential election |
| 2024 | Re-elected as president with 85 percent of the vote, after the Supreme Court reinterpreted the constitution's ban on consecutive re-election, becoming the first Salvadoran president to be re-elected since 1944. |
| 2024 | Won re-election with 85 percent of the vote after the Supreme Court reinterpreted the constitutional ban on consecutive re-election. |
| December 2024 | By the end of the year, El Salvador's prison population had increased from 37,190 in 2020 to over 105,000, giving the country the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1.7 percent of its population. |
| December 23 2024 | The Legislative Assembly repealed the ban on metal mining, which Bukele approved on the same day, despite opposition from the Catholic Church due to environmental concerns. |
| December 19 2024 | The day after the IMF loan, the National Bitcoin Office director stated El Salvador would continue buying bitcoins at an 'accelerated rate', and the government purchased 11 bitcoins worth over $1 million. |
| December 18 2024 | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to give El Salvador a $1.4 billion loan, with concessions related to the Bitcoin Law. |
| November 2024 | The Central American Bank for Economic Integration announced a $646 million financing for infrastructure projects, which Bukele described as helping El Salvador's 'economic takeoff'. |
| November 2024 | Bukele meets with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles. |
| November 21 2024 | The Salvadoran government had accumulated 5,940 bitcoins worth $582 million. |
| October 2024 | El Salvador agrees to provide soldiers for street patrols and aerial surveillance in Haiti. |
| October 2024 | Investigative journalists published a report revealing that Bukele, his three brothers, wife, and mother had purchased 34 properties valued at US$9 million during his first presidential term, which Bukele denied and dismissed the journalists as 'imbeciles'. |
| October 16 2024 | El Salvador and J.P. Morgan & Co. agreed to restructure US$1.03 billion of the country's debt through a debt-for-nature swap, with El Salvador allocating US$352 million towards conserving the environment around the Lempa River. |
| October 3 2024 | First Salvadoran soldiers arrive in Port-au-Prince to participate in the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti. |
| September 2024 | Bukele meets with Argentine President Javier Milei. |
| September 15 2024 | Bukele declared that the 2025 government budget would not include any debt for current spending and would not take out foreign loans to pay for the budget. |
| July 2024 | Bukele threatened to mass-arrest vendors, importers, and distributors engaged in price gouging and announced the beginning of a six-phase Economic Plan. |
| June 2024 | Bukele told Time magazine that the security situation in El Salvador had become sustainable and hoped to end the state of emergency 'in the near future'. |
| June 19 2024 | Raúl Neftalí Castillo Rosales is appointed as Minister of Culture, replacing Mariemm Eunice Pleitez Quiñónez. |
| June 11 2024 | CECOT prison reaches at least 14,532 inmates. |
| June 1 2024 | Nayib Bukele's second inauguration occurs, with the government announcing that all current cabinet members will retain their positions. |
| March 2024 | The United States deported 238 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador. |
| March 2024 | Bukele offers to send a mission to Haiti to address the country's gang war with UN Security Council support. |
| March 2024 | Bukele claimed that El Salvador had made a 50-percent profit from its bitcoin investments. |
| February 2024 | Bukele offered Secretary of State Rubio to accept non-Salvadoran deportees from the United States, including convicted American prisoners. |
| February 2024 | Bukele spoke at the American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), accusing George Soros of attempting to dictate public politics and laws in El Salvador. |
| February 24 2024 | Bukele posted a video of the transfer of the first 2,000 prisoners to CECOT. |
| January 2024 | Fourteen Democratic members of Congress send a letter to President Biden about Bukele's 'authoritarian' actions. |
| January 2024 | Bukele announced government subsidies for utilities for 95 percent of the population. |
| January 29 2024 | The Salvadoran government amended the Bitcoin Law to remove bitcoin's status as legal tender and currency, while still allowing its use as payment. |
| 2023 | Protests took place about Bukele's re-election campaign and gang crackdown, yet he continued to maintain high popularity. |
| December 2023 | The Legislative Assembly passed a law allowing individuals to purchase Salvadoran citizenship by donating bitcoins. |
| November 2023 | National Library of El Salvador was completed as part of infrastructure cooperation with China. |
| September 2023 | Bukele meets with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. |
| July 2023 | Bukele's government passes a law allowing mass trials by judge, permitting up to 900 people to be convicted in a single trial without a jury. |
| July 18 2023 | Jerson Rogelio Posada Molina replaces José Alejandro Zelaya Villalobo as Minister of Finance. |
| June 2023 | Legislative Assembly approved Bukele's proposals to reduce municipalities from 262 to 44 and Legislative Assembly seats from 84 to 60. |
| June 2023 | Secured Legislative Assembly approval to reduce the number of municipalities from 262 to 44 and legislative seats from 84 to 60. |
| May 2023 | Publicly criticized George Soros, claiming that outlets and journalists in Latin America are paid by him |
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