![Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and his wife, Gabriela Rodríguez, address a crowd of supporters from the presidential balcony on Sunday night.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/WXTHL42M6YBE5P5ML7OM7XD2DY.jpg?auth=ddd1d60c859a26c6dca627d0181d99d779df194881ec86e42807078744d99e6e&width=414&height=233&focal=1166%2C791)
A dictatorship is born
Bukele has extremely high levels of popular support in El Salvador. But the president is preparing for when the people grow tired: he has increased the ranks of the Armed Forces and is promising to double its size in five years