CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 22: Nayib Bukele and Elon Musk propose that U.S. judges ruling against Donald Trump’s agenda be impeached, citing the illegal 2021 removal of the Salvadoran constitutional chamber magistrates as a model to follow. Bukele claims that a judge’s order against recent deportations to Salvadoran prison is a “judicial coup” against Trump.
In the Honduran primaries, ruling party candidate Rixi Moncada says she will resign as defense minister in May. Salvador Nasralla, casting himself as MAGA-friendly, emerges for the Liberal Party. The National Party courts Trump operative Roger Stone, who claims the 2024 drug conviction of Juan Orlando Hernández is part of a “globalist” plot against a U.S. friend.
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