Bukele’s iron fist reaches El Salvador’s schools

The news this week in El Salvador is that hair salons are overcrowded. It’s gone viral, and videos and memes about it are flooding social media. There’s a reason: President Nayib Bukele appointed a military officer as Minister of Education. The official’s first order was that all children and adolescents must show up to school with closely cropped hair, their uniforms neat and tidy, and say “thank you” and “please” to adults. Those who don’t do so — or teachers who don’t enforce the rules — will face the consequences, he said in a statement.

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