Violence, Graft to Test El Salvador's Maverick New President

El Salvador's maverick new president takes office Saturday pledging to battle violence, poverty, corruption and mass migration to the United States — but will have to do all that without a congressional majority. Nayib Bukele, a 37-year-old former mayor of San Salvador, ended 30 years of bipartisan rule by the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) with his election victory in February. But the electoral...

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