Nayib Bukele's shadow cabinet of Venezuelan advisers
A person who only casually follows news and politics in El Salvador could wonder why some marchers in recent protests carried signs denouncing Venezuelans' role in Bukele government policies. Alongside banners decrying the authoritarian rule of Bukele or rejecting the new Bitcoin law in the country, you might also see a denunciation of “Venezuelan interference.” In fact, a series of reports in El Faro and other media outlets have identified a group of more than two dozen Venezuelan consultants to the Salvadoran government, several of whom act as a kind of shadow cabinet in the administration of president Nayib Bukele. According to El Faro , the pyramid of power in El Salvador has Nayib Bukele at the top with his three brothers as his closest advisors, followed by the group of Venezuelans, who then direct the various actual cabinet ministers. The current leader of the Venezuelan shadow cabinet has been identified as Sara Hanna Georges. ...