A 37-year-old political outsider who has promised to bring “a new era” to his native El Salvador has been sworn in as the Central American nation's president.
During his five-year-term Nayib Bukele wants to tackle El Salvador's legacy of gang violence and corruption.
An avid social media user who projects a youthful, unconventional image, Mr Bukele also wants to break with the left-wing foreign policy alliances his predecessor in office, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, forged.
He says that instead he will prioritise El Salvador's ties with the United States and closely scrutinise the country's recently established relations with China.
Change at the top
Mr Bukele's convincing election victory on 3 February represents a break in the long-running dominance of the two traditional parties in El Salvador.
Key facts
The left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the conservative Arena party had alternated in power since the end of the country's civil war in 1992.
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