“Democracy has died in El Salvador today,” said opposition Congressmember Marcela Villatoro.

El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly — which is controlled by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s New Ideas party — on Thursday approved a series of constitutional reforms, including abolition of presidential term limits, that critics warned pose a grave threat to the Central American nation’s fragile democracy. As El Faro reported, lawmakers approved measures allowing for indefinite…

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