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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Ivan Pisarenko and Maria Isabel Sanchez

'Peace, Tranquility, Freedom': El Salvador President's Ticket To Reelection

The president's popularity is in plain view all over the capital, where vendors make bustling sales of T-shirts, coffee mugs, baseball caps, keyrings, watches, dolls, piggy banks and aprons all bearing his image (Credit: AFP)

There is an unfamiliar air of serenity in El Salvador's capital, where voters head to the polls Sunday without the specter of gang violence and intimidation hanging over them for the first time in years.

Most of them will opt, they say, for incumbent President Nayib Bukele whose "war" on gangs they credit with improving the daily lives of a majority of Salvadorans almost overnight.

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