The single hardline revolutionary of Palestinian descent the Biden administration loved to hate and did their darnedest to shove out of power – something totally against their usual inclination to coddle and indulge authoritarian strongmen – has bested their every machination and emerged victorious.
Two years ago, Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, was putting Joe Biden and his diplomatic crew on notice that he wasn’t the guy they thought he was. El Salvador might well be poverty-stricken and crime-ridden, but he was going to clean it up his way. If that ruffled feathers and offended US sensibilities, well, that was just too bad for the US.
And if the US got caught with their pants down meddling with Salvadoran internal affairs, then they could just be embarrassed when the whole world was exposed to exactly what US diplomats had been doing.
Bukele could – and would…
