How Venezuela and Venezuelans have been a thread throughout Nayib Bukele's political career
The military incursion by the United State on January 3, to arrest Venezuela's dictator-president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, sent ripples throughout Latin America. From El Salvador, president Nayib Bukele backed the capture by US troops. Venezuela and Venezuelans have been a thread running throughout Bukele's political career. His start in politics was partly fueled with oil dollars from the Chavista regime in Venezuela. Today, as he celebrates Maduro's capture, Bukele runs El Salvador surrounded by political advisers tied to Venezuelan opposition figures and opens his prisons to Venezuelans deported by Donald Trump. When Nayib Bukele commenced his political career, he was a young, promising politician in the FMLN. The left-wing FMLN, the former armed guerilla movement turned political party, was a loyal part of the Latin American left led by Cuba and Venezuela. Sending subsidized petroleum and money earned from its oil re...