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The following is a list of international trips conducted by Nayib Bukele , the mayor of San Salvador from May 2015 to April 2018 and the president of El Salvador since January 2019.
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The following is a list of international trips conducted by Nayib Bukele , the mayor of San Salvador from May 2015 to April 2018 and the president of El Salvador since January 2019.
| Image | Country | Cities visited | Date(s) | Notes |
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 United States | New York City | 31 October 2014 | Spoke at the United Nations as a part of World Cities Day [1] |
| Image | Country | Cities visited | Date(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Washington, D.C. | 11 September 2016 | Official visit [2] | |
 |  Taiwan | Taipei | 23 February 2017 | Official visit [3] |
 Israel | Jerusalem | February 2018 | Official visit [4] | |
 |  Costa Rica | San José | 20 April 2018 | Attended the XVIII summit of the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities |
| Image | Country | Cities visited | Date(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | United States | New York City, Washington, D.C. | 26 September 2019 | State visit, [5] spoke at the United Nations General Assembly [6] |
 |  Japan | Tokyo | 29 November 2019 | State visit [7] |
 |  China | Beijing | 4 December 2019 | State visit [8] |
 |  Qatar | Doha | 12 December 2019 | State visit [9] |
 Guatemala | Guatemala City | 27 January 2020 | State visit [10] | |
| United States | Washington, D.C. | February 2021 | U.S. President Joe Biden refused to meet Bukele. [11] | |
 |  Turkey | Ankara | 28 January 2022 | State visit [12] |
 | United States | Mountain View | 29 August 2023 | Signed a 7-year agreement with Google [13] |
 | United States | New York City | 19 September 2023 | Spoke at the United Nations General Assembly [14] |
| United States | National Harbor | 22 February 2024 | Spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference [15] | |
| United States | Austin | 20 September 2024 | Met with Elon Musk [16] | |
| United States | New York City | 24 September 2024 | Spoke at the United Nations General Assembly [17] | |
 |  Argentina | Buenos Aires | 30 September – 1 October 2024 | State visit [18] |
| Costa Rica | San José | 11–12 November 2024 (planned) | State visit [19] |
| Image | Country | Cities | Date(s) | Event | Notes |
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 | United States | Los Angeles | 6–10 June 2022 | 9th Summit of the Americas | Bukele was one of multiple Latin American heads of state who did not attend the 9th Summit of the Americas. He did not attend due to frustration of the United States' criticism of his government regarding alleged corruption and human rights abuses. [20] |
Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who has been the 81st president of El Salvador since 1 June 2019. As a member of the Nuevas Ideas political party, Bukele is the first Salvadoran president since 1989 who was not elected as a candidate of one of the country's two major political parties: the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) or the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), of which Bukele had previously been a member.
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Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez de Bukele is a Salvadoran educator, prenatal psychologist and the current First Lady of El Salvador, as the wife of the 43rd President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. She is also a professional ballet dancer and is part of the dance company Fundación Ballet de El Salvador.
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The following tables list the results of opinion polls for the presidential, legislative, and municipal elections conducted since October 2022 in reverse chronological order for the 2024 Salvadoran general election. The party with the highest percentage is listed in bold and displayed with its background shaded, and the party with the second highest percentage is listed in bold. The lead column shows the percentage between the parties with the first and second highest percentages. For legislative and municipal election polls, projected seat counts, if available, are listed below the percentage.
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Yusef Alí Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran businessman, politician, and economist. He is a younger brother of and advisor to Nayib Bukele, the current president of El Salvador. Bukele has served as one of Nayib's economic advisors and played a role in the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador.
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