After El Salvador's congress changed the Constitution last week to eliminate presidential term limits, the Trump administration this week is insisting that authoritarian President Nayib Bukele is not a dictator.

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

But a host of democracy watchdogs are answering back that the comparison is especially apt.

"The U.S. statement is absolute nonsense," Doug Farah, president of IBI Consultants, a Latin America security consulting firm in Washington D.C., told WLRN.

"Bukele has dismantled the Supreme Court, he's virtually done away with any chance for the o

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