El Salvador president takes measures to centralize power 

Nayib Bukele, the overwhelmingly popular 39-year-old president of El Salvador, is taking measures to centralize power among his allies, most recently removing some of his critics from the Supreme Court. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports. 

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