Nayib Bukele and El Salvador
People often say to me, “What do English people think about…?” and it’s difficult to reply- what do 65 million people think and how many of those people can I really claim to know?
So, it’s difficult to say what’s happening in El Salvador and what the people there think about it but I’m going with Steve Sailer on this one.
It may be that he’s done a deal with a gang, it may be that’s what the opposition is saying to discredit him but the murder rate has definitely gone down.
If we choose a neighbour, Venezuela, things are completely different. It appears anything up to 25% of the population has left the country.
Without being too imperialist/Western about this, we have to ask;
Just how would you try to govern a country which is controlled by gangs?
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1882229656163901667
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1679056073444171778
Here’s Bukele on money supply
https://x.com/__US17__/status/1801013552561442868
Related topics: is the UN declaration of Human Rights a useful document?
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Where are the duties and what happened to “my rights end where my neighbour’s begin”?
My freedom to swing my arm ends where the other fellow’s nose begins.
Should Nayib Bukele be the next leader of the Palestinian Authority
Did Mahmoud Abbas kill one of his opponents?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Banat
And if so, should the West support him?
For me, a key marker is arresting someone on charges of “insulting national sentiment”.
Was one of his sons named in the Panama Papers?
El Salvador's murder rate decreased to historic lows during Bukele's tenure, falling by over 50 percent during his first year in office.[1][2] Although Bukele attributed the decrease in murders to his deployment of thousands of police and soldiers to gang strongholds and an increase in prison security, his government has been accused by the United States of secretly negotiating with Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) to reduce the number of murders. After nearly 80 people were killed by criminals during a single weekend in March 2022, Bukele's government has since arrested over 71,000 people with alleged gang affiliations, leading to accusations of human rights violations being committed by El Salvador's security forces. However, Bukele's crackdown on gangs was credited as effectively "decimating" them, resulting in a nearly 60 percent decrease in homicides in 2022.[3][4]