This trend of depriving political opponents and human rights defenders of citizenship or nationality demonstrates that collaboration between the region's autocracies is ongoing.
Generalizing their characteristics only generates analytical biases that do not contribute to scientific explanation to the question: Why are people opting for authoritarian leaders?
The Bukele family executes a multimillion-dollar expenditure on armies of developers dedicated to multiplying official propaganda on social networks and shutting down dissonant voices.
The certainty of an electoral process is based on generating inputs that contribute to electoral integrity, where authorities, civil society and the international community can guarantee the transparency of the process. However, this is only one of the requirements of a democracy.
In a country where insecurity made life unbearable, brutality against alleged criminals and signs of authoritarianism are not only accepted, but even translated into votes.
Several governments have used the human rights argument to open the door to indefinite reelection. But these are mainly personalistic and authoritarian leaders where the checks and balances of the democratic system have been captured or eroded.
