On Wednesday the Bukele-controlled legislature changed the Salvadoran Constitution to allow for express constitutional changes in a nearly single-party state, marking a definitive end to the era of checks and balances instituted in the thralls of the Salvadoran civil war. https://elfaro.net/en/202501/el_salvador/27724/with-a-stroke-of-the-pen-bukele-rewrites-constitution-to-allow-changes-at-will