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Bukele Critics Face Long Exile From El Salvador Homeland

About 80 human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and environmentalists have fled El Salvador in the last four months, according to an AFP tally (Credit: AFP)

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has tightened his grip on power and made life ever-more difficult for critics -- now a growing number face the prospect of a long and painful exile.

At 44 years old, the self-styled world's "coolest dictator" has been in power for six years, and has just scrapped constitutional term limits, raising the prospect he could rule for many more.

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