It is telling that when other countries try to criticize Bukele, they don't do it out of concern for the citizens, but rather just trying to play an empty blamegame. None of the other countries want to take responsibility , but rather criticise something just for the sake of it.

@@lqlaliut897 exactly. they want to play their "look at me and how virtious i am" card, without actually having to sacrifice anything themself. Kind of like all those homeless activists that demand them to be able to setup tents in public parks and sidewalks anywhere, instead of just offering 1 or two of them to live rent free with them in their place.

Ripped the face of their smug hypocrisy. Like the mayors of dem sanctuary cities not taking border crossers

@@rubberroast1598 AMEN! I said that exact thing to a family member

Perfect response!

I'm happy that you're finally experiencing peace and that no one you know has been falsely imprisoned

Go over to Salvador,,, talk to prisioner And if you aré convice, faund a inocent The gobernent Will give It to you !! BUKELE Is the true, meaning of humans rights. For good people no for evil animales !! And Is of Cristian values. !! It Is fear,,, one inocent?? For a thousen criminals than. 1000 dead for 1 asesin. !! Now from a barbarian state,,,,to a state of law,, peace, and prosperity. !! May the lord guide, AND protect PRESIDENTE BUKELE. !!

Give your life to Jesus, and you will receive everlasting life. John 3:16

Prosperity comes from peace never from chaos,once stability is achieved then the conversation can of rights and amendments can begin!

@@Bromos777 Christianity is for slaves

Is she one of the 34% that knows someone that knows an innocent person.

I’m happy for u and ur mother!!! Forget all those who don’t agree with the crackdown. Enjoy feeling safe and drown out all other noise.

@@jakeg3126she’s probably part of the 95%+ that knows someone who was killed, raped, kidnapped etc. by those gangs.

Welcome to el Salvador

@@jakeg3126be quiet little Jake

Exactly my country also implemented this kind of crack down and it is working.

But did that need to come at the cost of democracy? Will Bukele restore Democracy in the next decade or more? When the gangs are gone for good What will happen with no impetus for its crack downs?

​@willichtenstein7071 wich is worse? The dictator in the capital or the 30 dictators on your block.

​@mrspeigle1 Honestly I'd rather there be 1 than many, I just wish the government would crack down on our billionaire dictators here in the US. I know it won't happen though.

​@@willichtenstein7071He is already starting to pull back the brutality. His crackdown on gangs includes providing scholarships for poor students

Some of the European countries with the lowest crime rates have the most lenient laws. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle

Thats not true. Look at any authoritarian nation in history.

And those countries have the same thing in common which is a culturally and ethnically homogenic population. Outside of them france, belgium, the netherlands, the UK and sweden are looking more and more thirdworldly as time goes by@@sarah70067

​@@kennystrawnmusicto jump to the conclusion that the crime rates are lower in Europe because of more homogenous populations is disingenuous and foolish

@@kennystrawnmusicgenuine question. Does El Salvador not?

100 percent true

Millions

That's facts.

you are so right! it is so easy to judge the el saldavorian government as someone who lived in freedom and safety their whole lives.

Americans ought to remember who is driving the demand for the billion-dollar narcotics industry in the first place...

The U.S. gives El Salvador financial aid! so no! The U.S won't stay the fuck out!!😂

@@conorcorrigan765 the world, people all over the world like cocaine

​@@xandercrews4729 True, the difference is most people around the world don't have the kind of money to spend on coke that Americans do.

>The "solution"... is only proportional to the issue itself That is a really good way to put it.

Thanks for commenting

Just a bunch of bleeding heart progressives who'd rather you suffer for the poor misunderstood gangers.

The solution is vigilantism, it has been for thousands of years. When the government or the king won't send men to take care of bandits, the people will come for them. This is ALSO the solution for a corrupt government. This scares the government so they don't like it when people have vigilantism. They want the people to feel powerless, you are just a number to them.

so how do you fix your poverty and economy now?

Doesn't change the fact that he's a dictator and has effectively thrown away human rights. Even if he is successful, he has thrown away El Salvador's future. Stop 👢 licking.

Alt right is just what the globalists and far left call anyone who opposes the anarchy and social degradation they’re after. Their end goal is literally to turn the entire world into a third world and make everyone second class citizens, all under the guise of moral superiority and virtuous, inclusive values. The saddest part is that they don’t even realize they’re being played by their billionaire masters who just want to profit on others suffering.

we will simply have to wait and see if he has a brain and a spine attached to that strong arm

He's Fascist. Like Franco, he is doing anything to keep his countryman safe. Fascism is the only way to fix a broken country.

I am new right and I will condemn this man. Freedom and truth is being killed live on television and honor is being toss down the river. Another tyrant in making selling humanity soul for quick fix will not solve the problem in a long run Moreover, the question will remain… where will the gang recruitment pool go now because they sure as hell will not diassapear?

This. 100% this.

The government hasn't taken any rights from us...on the contrary: we are more free now then ever before

Time will tell. But history shows that resorting to dictatorship ends poorly more than often...

@@etienne8110 augusto Pinochet and Franco entered the chat

@@LegendaryCollektor yeah exactly. Follow the trail of corpses those 2 left behind...

How's he paying for it? Is he borrowing money? Or did he raise taxes (so that what used to be the gang's cut is now his)? Don't get me wrong, I hope it's successful. Stopping people from becoming gangsters in the first place is the best way to stop the problem coming back. But where is the money coming from? El Salvador is not a rich country.

@@Pushing_Pixels You can actually tax the money people are spending if the gangs do not steel it, it's not that the government takes the cut the gangs took before and more that the money is back in natural circulation. Plus the funny thing is, the same decentralization that was supposed to uphold the democratic principles lets you obscure how government money is used(or stolen) easier. Apparently when your government has a ruling super-majority and a president that does not take "not your business, fuck off" as an answer, for the first time in history they are forced to actually explain where the money is going.

​@@Pushing_Pixels "The government taking the gangs cut" 😂 You can't be serious. Its disingenuous to compare the 'benefits" a gang offer from extortion to those of the duly elected government. Here's a clue: the gangs aren't building roads, bridges, or funding education.

@@Pushing_Pixelsin the end, people will gladly pay more taxes if it mean their safety is improve upon

I bet people are able to pay more taxes now that they can spend their money inside of the system instead of letting it go into gangs pockets. Theres alot that could be done in the u.s. in terms of budget just removing bureaucratic bullshit in general honestly.@@Pushing_Pixels

I think that if we want to tell El Salvadore what to do, we should be prepared to pay for it. If we want the prisoners to have better conditions, well, we can help ease the burden on the El Salvarodan government to help that happen. Nothing they are doing is easy. You can't run a safe prison without well trained guards, money for food, a budget for healthcare... But they need the prisons, even if it means running them without those things. The US could could offer an alternative. Hell, we have experience with mass incarceration.

Plenty of Americans know just how bad gang violence can be. The US isn't exactly a peaceful place.

First world countries are full of left wing retards who make it possible for gang violence to thrive.

@@5kplamse you're comment reads 9 seconds ago (I don't know why that's important.) but I agree with you: Only in the USA, "protective custody" of Planet Earth, can gangs even exist. All the more reason to avoid the $hit.

@genesssisss, be careful! Bukele FOREVER will evolve into Buke 4evr (so it will fit on you're knuckles), and you will be at war with Americans who do not need the org.

​@5kplamse Yeah, the lefties LOVE criminals and rapists.

For anyone curious my wife told me that at 13 years old she went to visit a sick aunt and when they reached the entrance about 6 guys covered in tatts head to toe came up to their car with guns aimed at them (Kids and elderly in the car) if it wasn’t for their uncle driving who recognized one of the gang members and said he knew his father who knows what could’ve happened. My wife just remembers one of the guys grabbing his junk with one hand and pointing a pistols with the other blowing kisses at her and her twin sister. If this dictatorship means safety from that hell from before gimme some more of that.

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Bukele success... for today. tomorrow? a tyrannical brutal tyrant. every. single. time. people love them, as long as its not them personally being illegally sent to heinous prisons. predictable. but they always turn. ALWAYS. then there will be new levels of hell to pay.

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Its not dangerous, I'll tell you why buckle is able to do this because he has 99% of the country on board. The people give government authority to change the Constitution. Not the government itself the moment the people feel the government is missusing power is the time when people don't elect them again and they lose all support from the people making it to where they cant move a finger and change things any longer. The issue here in America is noone is united everyone is divided. In el Salvador everyone has united to end the gang violence even people from abroad that are in America in other countries that are Salvadorian support buckles decision 100%. America doesn't have that it has the Dems and Republicans are going against each other on everything they cant come together at all.

ironically, now in El Salvador, you can be an innocent person, in the "wrong place and the wrong time" (which you say us americans never experience loss which is just retarded, but regardless) and you can be snatched up off the street by the police, taken to jail, and rot there till you die, without any recourse or ability to defend yourself, or even hire a lawyer. Do you not understand what you have done? You have simply traded one evil away for an even darker evil, that is just getting started. The whole reason gangs in your country became what they are today in the first place, was BECAUSE your justice system lacked any protection for citizens, and the DEATH SQUADS of corrupt police and government agencies would snatch people yp off the streets, and make them disappear into the jungle, their bones never to be found. this is what you have allowed to happen, again.

Absolutely. This guy has never lived it, and is reporting on a very old prison/court system. And even worse, he's listening to things like the Washington Post. Let him go to somewhere like Somalia and get even a glimpse of what they were like.

I’m happy for you and your country

In a long post like this, it is best to use paragraphs and spacing. No-one reads books any more, so a large block of words just makes the eyes glaze over. This way you will get the upticks your excellent comment deserves.

I have another video I'm working on right now about how Bukele vigorously defends what he has done and accomplished. It's pretty good, I hope you get a chance to see it, and appreciate it.

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Agree 100%! 👍

I've never experienced gang violence and I understand why el Salvador passed these policies. It's the crying bleeding heart liberals that always pretend to think that these are just misunderstood victims of society.

That's if you believe that 100% of people locked up are with gangs. The "round them all up" strategy is problematic.

@MrNH718 They are. Hence, the historical drop in crime that took place basically overnight.

@@MrNH718 Not a concern. They all get their gang affiliation tattooed on their skin. If someone quits the gang, they die. If someone not a member gets a tattoo posing as a member, they die. Anyone with gang ink is an active member. It's a confession they wear on their body.

Yep. That is the USA today, unfortunately.

​@@tobystevens3109 Such as?

Basically the UK. If you defend yourself in any way you'll get a harsher punishment than the person assaulting you.

Sadly the USA is sinking into the same mud with this poisonous idea. Poverty doesn't cause crime, it's always crime that causes poverty.

Sadly the western world is choosing to embrace this insane ideology. “Criminals are victims. How dare you resist assault?” In these “progressive” places you’ll get arrested for defending yourself or someone else. Criminals are more and more brazen. I watch in real time as my city turns into a s**thole. The only deterrent is punishment and the promise of consequences. Without consequences people will do whatever they feel like doing no matter who it harms.

Exactly. If they didn't live there before then they have no right of opinion in the matter.

Funny enough is that the people who have a problem with it are non el Salvadorian people who probably never been in South America before

The west hypocrisy

These are probably the same people who would have your life destroyed if you misgendered them or triggered them. @@angryvaultguy

It is like at school, bullies and malcontents run wild and free and the second someone tries to stop them all the sudden everyone loses their minds.

Yes, he did a great job fixing the gang problem. I just hope that he doesn't become a Tyrant and keeps working for the good of his people. I would love to visit El Salvador in the future.

Next...when BTC, hits 100k/coin...it's people will become wealthy. Then. Crime will have no place in El'Salvadore. So this prelude of taking "losers" off the streets.. will pave the way to this country being invaded by the World's millionaires. .who finally realize that BitCoin is the only way to transact proper exchange for goods/services worldwide. Vendors...rich vendors worldwide...will seek to go where BTC is ubiquitously accepted...then spread out... again...and again. Ad all world Fiat/paper monies finally fie by 203_.

​@@sushmag4297Dictatorships can be tyrannical but so can dumbocracy.

​@sushmag4297 oh he'll become a tyrannical just wait.

He did bungle the covid response by buying into alt-medicine bullshit and he tried to integrate crypto into the economy right when it crashed. For every great idea that comes from a dictatorship, there's a few horrible ones that cause irreversible damage. I'm willing to give Bukele the benefit of the doubt because he did crack down on El Salvador's number one problem, though

well said ma man. all those liberal fucktards only know to spout bullshit all day long about "INNOCENTS"

Just goes to show there is no better system of government than a benevolent dictatorship.

​@xv9021 nah. Hard pass on that. Self proclaiming himself as dictator was an ironic response that was taken out of context. Think of it as a "if you want to call me a name, fine. Whatever, I'll take it and move on." Kind of like dealing with a playground bully 😂

@@xv9021Just like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore.

@@xv9021 Sadly no, because even if you are the smartest, nicest and coolest of dictators, once you leave power (are overtaken, die or something) you leave behind a system that's going to be abused by a not-so-benevolent dictator

And who protects the gang leaders? Why won't he give these monsters to the US? Bukele refuses extradition why..

@@Rox888-vx3hv The US? Those who founded the gangs were all deported by the US. Why would he hand them back to the US? The US is run by gangster called Democrats!

@@Rox888-vx3hv Are you yourself on drugs? Why would Bukele give its criminals to the USA? Under what law would the USA claim them?

​@@Rox888-vx3hv Because he knows the US won't do anything xD Bukele doesn't like how the US handles things thats why lol

@@KyleandPrieteniCrook..MS leader bukele hid him from the US. Who has him now? Look it up

BRAVO! Well said and 100% correct

Thank you. Good to hear from someone who experienced it firsthand rather than uber liberal academics that live in gated communities and debate social theories without ever having to experience the consequences of their "enlightened policies"

@@weirdshibainu Thank you, but just a correction that I didn't live there, but I did read extensively and watch many interviews of El Salvadorians on the situation, and some of what they said was hard to believe. The sheer savagery of the gangs is like something out of a history book on medieval battles, and it's a reminder that genuine evil exists in this world and it has no interest in 'rehabilitating' or being decent in society. Western liberals/academics have no idea what they're talking about when faced with such barbarity, and I think that they hate the current president of El Salvador because his actions prove all of their theories wrong. No, he says, you don't bargain and reason with evil, you defeat it.

Anybody that had to endure those years know that what we have in El Salvador today is the best it’s ever been and probably ever will.

That was a great comment rock on broski

From the USA, all the best to our brothers and sisters in El Salvador. You deserve the peace.

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I'm Canadian and wish you the best in 2024

@@Joedaniels007 I don't think hes an NPC bro... Anyone from Latin America who's lived there would support these results. If only others could do the same.... But for the first time, there is hope.

well, see the problem is, by giving up your voting power, and judicial branches of government to your mini-Maduro, you have no "say" or "choice" or "power" in not "letting" your country go back. You allowed yourself to be conned, by a dictator, into allowing him to consolidate power, and change your country from every having any hope of being a normal, peaceful democracy, by being tricked that this "band aid" solution, was a cure to your problems. Sadly, history has shown us that this has never ever worked in favor of the people, ever. And not manana, not en diez anos, but sometime in the next decade or so, you will regret giving away your freedom to this man. Its just a hard reality. Let me ask you a question, how come in Mexico, common , regular people unite into vigilante militias, and wipe out the cartel in their pueblo, but you guys never do that? Why not fight for your freedom to live, against the pinches salvatruchas?

Really? Like what changed? I’m curious

Like no crime you dolt

I have been through the airport many times and have seen it change quite a bit. I really want to go out and see the country. I love Salvadoran culture and would love to see more of the country. Saludos.

@@ryanlopez1050 like the other comment said the airport has become much nicer everytime i went there. Different tourist locations have become much cleaner and nicer along with the place i stay at which is more of a everyday kind of place. it also feels alot safer where im not hearing about people getting killed during the days im there.

@@juanpena7436 no shit I was curious how that sudden change effected things

I can and I can assure you. They are counting the chicken too early. I need at least five years to see whether or not this will be a success and they are going to adapt to this.

Your experience as tourists is positive, I bet your family there is well off. Did you visit their clinics and schools? The newest, biggest infrastructure donated and built by China. A soccer Arena in the works by CHINA.. this government has not initiated nor built anything in ES

@@Rox888-vx3hvChinese infrastructure are low quality built especially prone to earthquakes. Japanese infrastructure are way better since they get very strong earthquakes.

Meanwhile they are flooding into the USA and the crime rates are skyrocketing because Democrats are weak and incompetent.

Outcry wtf people around the world are upset. Biden is pissed he wants those criminals here.

@@Rox888-vx3hvwhy are you so afraid or imposed to what China is doing to help El Salvador? China is doing more good to the county than what the U.s. could have ever done.

right up until he decides people aren't praising him enough and he orders the troops to march. This pattern has repeated hundreds of times in history and we can see how it is most likely to go down.

@@josephd.5524 Well we can't look at history to see what democracy is doing, but my country is Fked

@@ken420 Our now often used word dictator came from the romans, where it was a political post to be given to someone in dire times where he could rule unimpeded to solve critical problems. Even they recognized that there are times where political debate is just not good enough. I wish all El Salvadorians a bright and safe future. Hopefully Bukele will do the right thing after the job is done. In America, George Washington could've crowned himself king and most would've supported him but he generously chose not to for the future of his country. It is not out of the question.

@@josephd.5524 Only time will tell. Not every despot dictatorship malevolent... I mean, most of them are, but we can't say El Salvador is one way or the other until it's been around for a while.

That's should be the definition of Democracy, not the western version

Yes, but where just saying to be cautios, this is how dictatorships are made, now if you think dictatorships are good then by all its your belief but just know whats going up and own up to your own lies

​@@gsst6389Ultimately they lived under tyranny before so it's an improvement

@@dioniscaraus6124 well if it worked for the galactic republic i guess the galactic empire ain’t so bad after all

@@gsst6389 Dictator has become such a buzzword nowadays

@@miliba dictators arent dictator to the people when they start, is when they end, and with buckele where just saying to be cautioues and wait for time will tell if he wont end up like maduro

The crazy part is Simon hinted at that with his statements on what the gangs were doing for "fun". It should be easy to ID them. They are tattooed up the wazoo. For him to be like "but human rights" after not even giving us the facts tells me his liberal ideology is really bad when it actually comes to safety for law abiding individuals at the cost to the criminals. Criminals have zero moral qualms about killing people, but we as the civilized, should care about their human rights.

Problem is, once the gangs are taken care of you are left with a president with no accountability and a very well armed military and police that does whatever he says. In the long run I think this is the equivalent of burning your own house to escape the cold.

​@@mukamasalike I said-a slippery slope. But I strongly believe for countries as violent as El Salvador and nations with similar levels of chaos, there is no alternative. Period. The Salvadoran people have had enough-even if that means risking everything else they hold dear down the line. I respect their commitment, even if I don't entirely agree with it

​@@thebestcentaur a slippery slope is a risk of something worse happening. When you already have a dictatorship, that's not a slippery slope. It's an already unacceptable situation that is made to appear palatable by way of violent extortion. Take away the violence, the extortion remains, and now you have consented to it.

​@@burbanpoison2494that clearly doesn't matter to the people of El Salvador-not for the time being at least. You read as much-they don't know what true democracy is, so forget about having lived in one. I learned years ago that thinking about one country from your own country's mindset is unwise-UNLESS the two are in similar situations. The people are willing to pay the hefty price for a seemingly better tomorrow for themselves and their loved ones. I say let them, if they feel it is what is needed

especially since previous governments did fuck all.

I can totally see how the citizens would support Bukele. I would also put up with a lot to make sure my family was safe.

LOL

@ You do realize the guy is ridiculously popular over there, right? He also offered the EU to take in any one of the people swept up in these crackdowns that they thought were being mistreated. In Ecuador, there is massive popular demand to import Bukele's policies due to their own, even worse problems.

You are not making any sense bud. On the one hand you say that you don’t support Bukele's authoritarian tendencies but on the other you just told us how successful his policies are. Are you schizophrenic or just a bleeding heart liberal???

@@crowe6961do you know of any dictatorships that have ended well? It always ends badly because nothing is ever enough for a dictator, there is always more. More enemies, more traitors, more power, more looting…always more. Trading fear of the gangs for fear of the government, fear of illiterate cops who now feel the rush of their new found power over everyone else who isn’t a cop or soldier isn’t progress.

His authoritarian tendancies seems were necessary

Sweden should take note.

I am from Singapore. Believe it or not 40 to 50 years ago we had many gangs, but our late Supreme Leader changed all that. Now we are one of the safest country on the planet.

I visited every year for the 20 yrs and I never had any incidents either. What's the point?

You just have a much more powerful and legitimate looking gang. It will be fine until they want to extort you, or make you do or think what they want.

Not happening.@@jj4791

@@jj4791Sounds like the government in california and in the united states under the disguise of “democracy “ when we are really an oligarchy lol How does that sound ? Just pull the mirror in front of yourself and come to the realization his actions worked ! I don’t believe in total absolute power kind of like an all democratic ran california but in dire situations in order to set “law and order” it’s takes a dictator to move with swift and fast immunity! I don’t think he’s a bad guy and if the people are happy and safer that’s all that matters ! There has been bloodshed for the last 30 + years and all you are worried about is the optics of how it looks based on your ideology and indoctrination of how you grew up ! Learn to be more stoic and look at things in context rather than basic pseudo intellectual taking points ! He put a fire out that has been burning for the last 30 years so don’t complain about the smoke that went into the air !!!!

its the lesser of the two evils @@jj4791

​@@jj4791keyword is until. Since that's not happening though you're just crying about nothing. If it works, it works.

The 90% have human rights that need to be respected too. And as law abiding citizens they should come first in the queue. Why should their rights be sacrificed to give rights to criminals. It is insane. So I would not worry about your lack of concern if I were you.

I'd help stop them if I could

​@@Hereford1642 Humans rights of victims of the gangs who formed the majority of the country needed to be respected. I concur 90% of the population.

100% ANYONE saying otherwise is insane. FAFO

What about the people who were wrongly arrested, such as the children....?

Unfortunately, they are humans, and this is what humans are capable of. That's why we need a rule of law and the means to back it up.

Well... its not like they have the highest IQ... so I can see why they would say that.

Soymon would rather the gangs run free murdering half the country cause he is a total brainless leftist shill.

You as a citizen also need to be loyal and respectful of your troops. Take care of them and they will take care of you.

@@tobystevens3109 troops can't be trusted it's an institutional gang. when we see Bukele out we will see how much was taken by the gang :)

We need a Bukele in Haïti 🇭🇹

I bet nobody in El Salvadors civil society has a tattoo now.

I see it in a simple way - the higher crime rate grows, the closer you're to chosing whether you prefer the right to vote and right to live, rights of criminals and rights of children.

Yea, Simon simps for gang members. 🤣

Yeah if you have certain tattoos, and aren’t a member of the gang those tattoos are affiliated with; boy oh boy, that person is going to be in for a world of hurt. Impersonating a gang member when not apart of said gang, they don’t take kindly to that, not in the slightest.

Thats very true. Also... literally ZERO innocent people will copy the tattoos of one of these gangs as like a personal tattoo for fun. That kind of disrespect to the gang will get you murdered. Which means 100% of people with a distinct gang tattoo is a hardened member of a gang

So why aren't you there now? You should go back. Your fatherland needs you and there are no excuses anymore.

​@@tarstarkusz SMDH

@@JonathanKDeau Why are you shaking your head? It is a man's duty to be in service to his country.

​@@tarstarkuszfatherland though?

@@abc4781 Do you like "homeland" better? It's common for a people to refer to their area of the planet the motherland or fatherland.

It won't. Even a fool can see that. What happens when you pack 1/4 of a countries population into overcrowded detention camps? If you think that is a road to peace then I can't wait to look at you shocked face in 10 years.

It's a philosophical question, for sure. The safety comes at the cost of who-knows-how-many thousand innocent people being locked up with little/no trial. It's safe for everybody until you're caught up in it (and no one ever thinks they will be until they are). Personally, I think they're trying to hammer a nail with a grenade and it will blow up in their faces later, but I also haven't lived through the uncertainty and violence they've lived through, so I'm not one to tell anybody they're wrong for supporting it.

Even a benevolent dictator, is still a dictator. Bukele won't last forever, who ever replaces him will inherit this authoritarian system he has built, can you say for sure if you would trust the next President?

@@1blackice1 the future is always uncertain, and that goes to every single nation. Nobody cared about El Salvador during the reign of terror that the gangs caused, I bet that most people never even read or actually thought about that situation. It’s just so funny how the world only starts caring once the shit holes start to straighten themselves up.

@@PalmelaHanderson If you had lived there during those times you would see that the measures taken are the only way out. We are talking about criminals that would shoot an 8 year girl just so they can get back at the government for locking up their “homeboys”

​@@reylovo97it is still a dictatorship, but not all dictatorships are inherently evil. This is one of those cases where a dictator is acting in the best interest of the general public.

God bless you and I'm sorry for what you suffered Thank you for taking the time to share your story. Liberals and their lawlessness needs to hear your story

These people criticizing this president are the same ones criticizing Isreal and the Gaza. It’s funny no other Country wants the Gaza Trash though !

And what about all the innocent people that he incarcerated at the same time while rounding up gang members without the right to a fair trial? Ok, so I'm sorry, but you do understand that when you were in the NAVY, that el Salvador was NOT A dictatorship, it was a democracy. The point is, that he took a bunch of rights away from the people like "the right to defend yourself if you are arrested but are innocent of the charges" and that El Salvador is going to BECOME a dicatatorship. you see Edwin? Now Edwin i know you are hispanic, but you aint one of those hispanic trump supporters are you? I just cant keep a straight face, Edwin, at the ridiculous naivity of your post. Its as if you have turned your back on the idea of democracy, while living in a country with all the benefits OF a democracy. Edwin, would you be ok if Biden wrote an executive order which suspended the rights to a fair trial for Jan 6th insurrectionists, and then just rounded up anyone who was found to be sympathetic the coup attempt on social media along with Trump and his traitor gang that attacked the Capitol? Like would you be ok if the DOJ just locked up TRump because the MAJORTY of americans are convinced he is guilty of his crimes, just like the majority of El Salvadoreans are convinced that having secret police squads that do not answer to the law, is just fine to sweep up gang members and innocent bystanders alike? And what about the next step? Since the police in el salvador are no longer answering to the supreme court or the people, they can literally just make people disappear without consequence. Thats what you think is good for the long term future of el salvador? Like why didnt Bukake at least try Economic reform FIRST, like taking away the 2% that own ALL the coffee bean fertile land in El Salvador for hundreds of years; its been the same few families, why not break that up and give it back to the people ,so they can make a living exporting coffee beans which is the main export, and has been controlled by 2% of the population? But the people are so used to being slaves without freedom, they allow themselves to be conned into thinking that taking away people's rights for any reason whatsoever is a "good solution" when history has PROVEN it NEVER works. Trump supporters are just as ignorant about true freedom and liberty as these uneducated peasants are.

Yes. No American can fathom what it was like down before. Don't listen to these whining 'human rights' people, who did not worry about the human rights of normal citizens trying to live their lives in peace under the gangs. Where were they for all those years? Tell them to get lost. My ES family is so much happier, like being freed from jail themselves. Don't listen to anyone who did not live there before, they have no right of opinion on the matter. We support Bukele and plan to visit this year to finally enjoy the wonderful country and people.

@@strannick2212 Liberalism towards the police started because of unjust laws targeting poor black communities, leading to a gazillion convictions for low-level shit. Which led to attempted reform and Portland being a hellhole. And now we're back at square one again with a militarised police force.

Makes me wonder if the low crime there now has something to do with so many crossing the southern border.

One thing I hear from others is how skeptical of Bukeles economy. If that fails, well what would happen?

​@@Jesus_Zendejaswe didnt elect him for his economic promises, thats all i have to say

​​@@Jesus_Zendejas I remember a quote, not sure by who. "It's better to be poor in freedom, than to have riches in slavery". ''. I can imagine the people of El Salvador feel as if they've got their freedom back after being held hostage by the gangs for decades, being able to go outside safely, being able to go to work safely, not having to worry your child won't return home, that is more important than anything else.

​@@jonathansibrian695you did well in electing him. I can't speak on his economic skills, but I feel not having to give away 50% of your income to gangsters is an economic boom in itself

@@jonathansibrian695 you elected him to take your freedom and rights away. you voted in your last election. you didn't vote to eliminate gangs. you voted to make bukele the only legal gang. the bukele gang now has the monopoly on violence. well what can i say. this isn't new in latin america. soon all the street gangsters will be dead and bukele will need more slave labor, so now anyone who criticizes bukele can now be considered a gang member, because "bukele can do no wrong. if you think he's doing wrong, you must be the one who's wrong." See how quickly this can devolve into north korea? Oh yeah by the way, north korea has zero homicides. does that mean we should want to emulate their society?

Was a frightening place, ...hopefully.

WAS. Thanks Bukele.

The irony is that Canada is more dangerous today than when she moved here thanks to the incredibly lax criminal code lmao.

El Salvador was a dangerous place to visit or live .

You mean WAS a frightening place, now is the safest country in our hemisphere, thanks to Bukele

Chill, this is just criticizing the bad things el salvador is doing, that previous dictatorships use to hold into power and rightfully so, if you wanna be a nazi sure go ahead just dont be shock when you get told your the bad guy

@@gsst6389"Oh my science, wanting to stopping heckin criminals makes you a literal nazi and a bad guy".

Poverty doubled, health and education at its lowest in decades.. false security can only go so far if you stay in power by threatening to bring back gangs if you don't vote for him

I don t think the dictator suppress them to be honest. Yes. You depend on one man, but if the guy is good for his country then it s not a problem at all.

Is that your wife in the profile pic? She looks African American not Salvadoran.

​​@@V.E.R.O.they come in all colors dumba$$ 😂.....save Some money and take a trip there someday.....

Salvadoran is a nationality, not an ethnicity. They're people of all sorts of races. @@V.E.R.O.

@@alexp.199 I'm Salvadoran, 90% of the population is mixed, the only black people I ever saw there were African diplomats or people from Honduras. Perhaps her parents moved there from Honduras. My point is she doesn't look like a typical Salvadoran.

​@@V.E.R.O.afro Latinos exist my dude

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? lol you see this video and think this is not part of an echo chamber. delusional

@@dariohenriquez7773for real this video acting like the damn gangs who terrorized El Salvador for a decade deserve a second chance. He also didn’t bring up how previous government was corrupt as fuck.

@@briangonzalez8514 Exactly. Those gangs were pretty sadistic and evil and the previous administrations in El Salvador were as useful as a feminist.

Bukele loves his country while Duterte loves money..

Because apparently they work. Extreme remedies for extreme evils, simple.

The violence has observibly stopped but has the poverty, the initial impetus for the gangs. He kept mentioning Canada's low crime rate but Canada has yet to have a country so economically divided. Not yet!

Good thing I never got tattoos, not even small innocuous ones, if I ever want to visit El Salvador, lol.

usually you can tell who's a member of a gang by checking if their body is covered in tattoos, it works as a sort of marker

@@galatheumbreon6862 Indeed, you can even tell which they're a part of and what crimes they've done

Sounds similar to the black tear tattoo in the US which is worn by criminals who have killed police or law enforcement

do noot waste time. anglos and some europeans are beyond salvation. their knowledge comes from snowflakes that come to our countries and , being the world is not sunshine and rainbow as she think it is a given, she goes for the "victim". so they interview the mother of some mara, who, as you said, is more ink than skin. what do you expect? that mom will see it is justice to have his son in prison?. also, I ve spent a couple of seasons in guatemala (work), they do have some maras, but is not big in guate. heard from at least 5 people the fact that having those tattoes if you are not mara is to put a mark on your head. the moment they find out, you are dead.

It can be insane. I never joined a gang but I've driven guys around that nobody explicitly said anything but he was 100% using me to make his dealing mobile, and I made any potential cops ignore us.

Did he though?

He should still be accountable for his crimes don’t you think, or am I hearing that if you decide to get out then that’s good enough?

@@randomanon7040 Hater

​@@arthas640cops ignored because they always work with gang members and now they do the same for the government. Military transport it and cops control the streets. Drugs will continue to reach the US.

Indeed - it's almost as if "human rights" advocates don't consider victims of gangs humans, incredibly. Only gang members. How warped.......advocating for the people who have willingly seared their own humanity with a branding iron.......

Spoken like a well payed employee of a dictador

@@Rox888-vx3hv From his actions, Nayib Bukele is not a true dictator yet. You are raging against any benevolent application of government power in extraordinary situations solely because you are conditioned that empty promises are better than actual results. Weak and impotent "democratic people" have been deceiving El Salvador for years with their promise of "utopian, clean and eventual solutions" for these people's problems. Nayib ENDED the problem in less days then the amount of years these "democratic advocates" were peddling their promises.

​@@Rox888-vx3hvyes it was better living in fear of gangs or getting raped what is your angle anyway?

@@Rox888-vx3hv I get paid by an American airline but ok 😂 they do act like Ghadaffi sometimes, I give you that lol

Was your brother-in-law's mother pregnant in the early 90's or in 2023 ? I'm just asking this because the math doesn't exactly make sense.

​@@ricardozetino6907 I'm thinking "pregnant at the time"...unless she's from one of those communities that think a woman who isn't pregnant isn't worth anything and must be giving birth for as long as they can (and start at a very early age) 😂. Like the Duggars...

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Oh ok, thank you for the clarification.

@@ricardozetino6907 Sorry for the delayed reply. Yes, pregnant in the 90's when they immigrated. The fact my brother-in-law's brother (technically half brother but they don't make that distinction) was on the way was the reason his family decided to arrange for them to flee when they did instead of go the long due process route and hope they would get emergency refugee status.

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley I don't know her too well. She is VERY traditional in terms of family values, generational homes, and religion... but she isn't delusional levels of traditionalist, so it was just my brother-in-law and his brother

Trust me. What Bukele is doing is nothing new. In fact, it's just the cycle repeating yet again in Latin America. Some charismatic far right guy comes onto the scene somehow having all the solutions to very complex problems. He pretends to solve some problems, pumps his record with state-owned media, and then consolidates all power. You're seeing in El Salvador not the elimination of gangs, but the consolidation of all violence and power into one gang, the Bukele gang. Make no mistake. Power corrupts. Bukele's true face will start to unravel in a few years. By then it will be too late for El Salvadorans.

You know what they say, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Throughout history many dictators started out with good intentions when they seized power, but most of them became what they fought against.

This is the typical pro-democracy cope. People would rather live in shitholes filled with violent crime than entertain the idea of letting one leader fix everything.

Here's the thing. Dictators rarely step down. Even ones that start out well meaning are usually forced to stay in power in order to keep their lives.