El Salvador’s president threatens to lock up retailers who charge too much for food
El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele at the Bitcoin Week conference in 2021. Photo: Jose Cabezas/Reuters
El Salvador’s hardline president has threatened to treat shopkeepers accused of price gouging like the gangsters he rounded up in sweeping reforms at the start of his controversial presidency.
President Nayib Bukele, the leader who once styled himself as “the world’s coolest dictator”, was responding to steep rises for food and other basics in the troubled Central American nation.
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