Augustin Luckenson (Ogisten Likennson)

I’m sure he does. He is quite an impressive person. “…he served as resident director in Haiti, Morocco, and Nicaragua for more than a decade. He has observed or advised on elections in more than 20 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere, and has taught and lectured at universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe.” More on him: Félix Ulloa’s political and public life has been shaped by personal tragedy, human rights work during El Salvador’s civil war, and decades of international democratic and electoral work. His father, engineer Félix Ulloa Sr., was rector of the University of El Salvador and was assassinated in 1980 by paramilitary groups. He is remembered as the “Rector Mártir.” The younger Ulloa, then a law student and activist, had already been involved in the university student movement (including as president of the Student Electoral Tribunal of AGEUS in 1973) and in labor organizing. During the civil war (1980–1992), Ulloa worked as a human rights defender. He represented unions such as the National Union of Salvadoran Workers (UNTS), political prisoners, and organizations including the Committee of Mothers of the Disappeared (COMADRES). Together with other lawyers he co-founded the Institute of Legal Studies of El Salvador (IEJES), which he led at various times, focusing on the rule of law, democratic freedoms, and social justice at a time when the military dictatorship largely suppressed traditional legal advocacy. After the 1992 Peace Accords, he moved into the institutional side of the democratic transition. He was elected magistrate of the first Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of El Salvador (1994–1999), the body created by the Accords to oversee free elections. He also participated in drafting the post-war Electoral Code and in the oversight of political parties. Internationally, Ulloa spent many years as an election expert and democracy consultant. He worked with the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division, the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, and especially the National Democratic Institute (NDI), where he served as resident director in Haiti, Morocco, and Nicaragua for more than a decade. He has observed or advised on elections in more than 20 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and elsewhere, and has taught and lectured at universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. In 2019 he became Vice President of El Salvador as Nayib Bukele’s running mate, a role he has held since and was reelected to in 2024. His earlier career combined human rights defense inside El Salvador with long-term work promoting elections and democratic institutions around the world.