MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration said El Salvador President Nayib Bukele should not be lumped together with leaders in other countries it considers dictatorships after his party and allies discarded presidential term limits.

Bukele posted the statement of U.S. support on X Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said in a statement to The Associated Press that the constitutional change axing term limits in the Central American country was made by a “democratically elected” Congress and that “it is up to them to decide how their country should be governed.”

“We reject the comparison of El Salvador’s democratically based and constitutionally sound legislative process with illegitimate dictatorial regimes elsewhere in our region,” the statement said.

The speedy approval of

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