Oddbean new post about login | logout Bukele has detained over 76,000 Salvadorans, many with little evidence or access to due process. More than 1% of his country’s population. Forty thousand children have seen one parent or both detained.
True, but narcos don't use due process and have no limits or rules. Not saying Bukele is a hero, but I'm not sure he's wrong about this. When you are being attacked, you don't win by 500 years of trials.
If they have specific gang tattoos across their faces or bodies, i .e. known affiliates of violent gangs, do you want them to be free and participating in normal daily life? If the tattoos didn’t indicate gang membership, the gang themselves would detain and dismember impersonators. The cities in El Salvador were not suitable for tourists before Bukele, and now they are… Are there better ways to achieve this? I’m sure there are, but not as expedient considering the scale of their problems pre-Bukele.
And he has like 99% approval rating from Salvadorians. Maybe interview a few of them?
Where did ES' bitcoin money come from? Why didn't the IMF push back harder against them moving to bitcoin? What are they afraid of?
Why would the IMF care about a country the size of a postage stamp and with a long, long history of misrule? They figured El Salvador would be back soon enough. On their knees. Metaphorically and perhaps literally.
They would care because what if every country that is under the thumb of the IMF followed suit and escaped the globalists' control (read Confessions of an Economic Hitman)? Access to their natural resources would become dangerously limited. They also cared enough to visit in person right after Bukele announced it.
I have read it, but I'm still pretty sure Bukele is still alive and a free man because of the insignificance of his little country and its resources. If Australia tried this, or (good heavens!) Qatar or Bahrain, there would be trouble...
I don't think it's because they are small. The IMF has done worse to smaller places. ES has some interesting friends these days.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/china-and-el-salvador-update
Honestly, the Trump administration's tepid reaction is as weird as the IMF's. Has El Salvador seceded from the Monroe Doctrine? Its not like China could do anything to defend them, or would even actually care. China can buy coffee and soybeans in lots of places.
Here's something to think about. China could be fighting asymmetrical warfare. If MS-13 is spending too much time on American law enforcement radar, China could have stopped the flow of MS-13 into the US in favor of the Venezuela gangs. In addition, just like in Africa, ES gives China an unobtrusive foothold in the Western Hemisphere.
Mmmm? USA LE could stop MS-13 any time they wanted to, its not like their tradecraft is particularly novel. And USA LE undoubtedly has deeper relationships with regional security forces, and probably their hardware, that they can leverage and China cannot. China is buddies with Cuba and Venezuala already, who are much more defensible against US invasion. Not that China minds new friends, but I'm not seeing a compelling interest to justify taking the slightest risk. I'm still baffled. Maybe somebody close to Trump really didn't give a toss for El Salvador and decided to sabotage agency efforts to get involved?
Asymmetrical. Cuba is political. Venezuela is energy. El Salvador is economic. They are doing the same in Africa and the Middle East.
But for some reason no one is interested in the question. Strange.
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How long Assange has as arrested? And what for? For making the truth public? 🤔
👍 he has 99% approval
US justice system sucks and would not work in El Salvador either. The people he has arrested lost their rights the day they join the satanic gangs. Those poor children are probably better now. Talk to the people from El Salvador, light and hope is in the streets again. He isn’t perfect but for now he is helping El #Salvador. More people have been killed and incarcerated in #Cuba and #Venezuela with no trail just for wanting freedom and no #communism.
Should have just let the murderous criminals run wild amirite
There are always tradeoffs, and the alternative requires time, people, and money that El Salvador simply does not have. They don't have the luxury to enforce due process. When your house is on fire, you don't form a committee to discuss, debate, and vote on which exits your children should take; you grab your kids, throw them on your shoulders, and get out through the closest door or window available. El Salvador has been metaphorically on fire for a long time, and Bukele was the first president to finally treat it as the emergency it is. Yes, corrupt political leaders often create more "emergencies" in order to keep themselves in power, and if that happens with Bukele then we can talk about that at that time. But crying wolf when he is actually benefitting his people more than any other political leader on the planet is very unhelpful.
fuck em. Don't tattoo MS-13 on your face
The only people who care about this are Western liberal retards
Or, fix your own country before judging another 💩
Bukele viola la Constitución así que es un delincuente. Habrá consecuencias por tal acción, ya sucedió en Cuba. No se debe permitir que una Constitución soberana sea violada.
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A palavra pra descrever esse sujeito é vagabundo amante de assassinos de bebê e criminosos. Eu sinceramente não vou perder meu tempo explicando a diferença pra um filho da puta desses. nostr:nevent1qqsrr32lhpftf5s0qchs484cu6z94e8l3fptz8x9tkzcnnmzuy8d7nspz4mhxue69uhhwmm59enkjunfdehjummjvuhsygy08y0a20vl32za00wwclc2aufaen9vxa954rp82pmstzuw6yc4rqpsgqqqqqqs6q4d9r
i hear that the country ~was~ in violent chaos because of gangs ruling over the country instead of civil law & order…and that el salvador is taking steps to grow & develop after recent civil war & violence. the united states has one of the highest incarceration rates for a first world nation at about 0.7% the US has an actual problem with incarceration/brutality/injustice, comparing it with the more civilized first-world nations.
Erm, bombing? Allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering? Links to Hizbollah, Putin and Hillary, all at once? The usual. Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad the Trump administration didn't Noreiga him. It's a break with tradition, and one I approve of.
i see. So if he were protecting US interests IYO, he would have thrown the kitchen sink at them? I had to look up "Noriega" on Gemini, and it just refuses to answer any question on "politics" right now. So I'm risking asking obvious questions. Perhaps Mr. T has more on his mind than El Salvador. It's a literal standoff, liberals holding him at gunpoint, distracting him from holding El Salvador at gunpoint to change their politics. It's a hold-up, win-win for everyone.
