Bukele first-term Nuevas Ideas consolidation (El Salvador)

Doctrine — stated goals and content

First-term consolidation phase of the Nuevas Ideas movement establishing the mass-incarceration security regime (Plan Control Territorial launched Jun 2019; régimen de excepción declared Mar 27 2022 after the 26-30 Mar 2022 gang massacre of 87 civilians; monthly continuous legislative renewal since), Bitcoin legal tender (Ley Bitcoin Decreto 57 approved Jun 8 2021 as world-first sovereign BTC adoption; effective Sep 7 2021; Chivo wallet launched with $30 per-adult BTC buy-in), and institutional capture (Feb 9 2020 "9F crisis" armed-forces entry into the Legislative Assembly pressing for $109m security loan; May 1 2021 overnight removal of the five Constitutional Chamber magistrates and Attorney General Raúl Melara on the first day of the new Assembly; Sep 3 2021 replacement Constitutional Chamber ruling that consecutive presidential re- election is permitted despite the 1983 Constitution's explicit bans in Articles 152 and 248; Jun 2021 termination of the CICIES anti-corruption agreement with the OAS after CICIES began investigating Bukele-allied officials; CECOT Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo opened Jan 2023 as a 40,000- capacity mega-prison). Ideologically heterodox: right- authoritarian on rule-of-law and security, statist-libertarian on money, interventionist-developmentalist on tech incentives, and pragmatic on fiscal management (2022 sovereign-default fears managed via 2023 debt buyback, continued IMF engagement culminating in the Dec 2024 EFF). The movement was a coherent governing coalition with mass popular mandate: Bukele won 53.1% in Feb 3 2019 first round (end of two-party FMLN-ARENA era), Nuevas Ideas took 56/84 seats on Feb 28 2021, and approval polling sustained 80-90% through 2019-2024 on the homicide-rate collapse from 38/100k (2019) via 17.6/100k (2021) and 7.8/100k (2022) to 2.4/100k (2023). The coding separates security-and- monetary-reform content from institutional-quality deterioration per Invariant 3. Human-rights reporting (Human Rights Watch, Cristosal, Amnesty International) documents ~85,000+ detentions under régimen de excepción with minimal judicial review, ~300+ deaths in state custody, and suspension of constitutional due- process guarantees via continuous 30-day renewal cycle.