The Price of El Salvador's War on Gangs 

Almost like killing and extortion is a crime. And you go to prison if you commit a crime. I don’t know what’s so hard to grasp here. You do the crime you pay with your time. It’s not that deep. 🤔

​@@Simon_the_penguinEl Salvador should arrest even more people to make sure that there are fewer gang members

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tell that to woke westerners. Let them live in latam for 10 years or so, theyll change their mind.

EXACTLY. But it was the corrupt mafia politicians of the past who gave all the power to the gangs. the communist mafia terrorists of the FMLN and ARENA

​@@RM-el3gwBeing a western European myself, I know many do understand that this governmental intervention is necessary. I wish LATAM was a safer place as well. I visited Chile once and there were many limitations because of muggings and unsafe areas for western people. I hope it'll be better in the near future

There is no such thing as "El Salvadoran" people

It's not about criminals but rather the risk that with such massive amounts of arrests lots of non-criminals are very likely to be arrested with them. Given the situation *I think it's necessary* But do not misunderstand what the criticism is about. It's only about those who are arrested with the criminals not the real criminals themselves.

I feel sorry for the innocent people wrongly imprisoned who never had their day in court.

​@@cyberneticbutterfly8506they're gang members, they're all criminals 😂

@@hadihadidijalan4091 So you are saying the people doing arrests are guaranteed to arrest only gang members?

​@@cyberneticbutterfly8506yes all of them have literally tattoos of gangs . Yes sadly some innocents are definitely also trapped but it's extremely small number.

Being from India, I can say that even I am happy with your president. He is re establising dharma, or the righteous code of conduct.

As a German I would feel proud about it too! You have your country under control. I even know some European Friends that consider taking vacaition in El Salvador, because it is so safe now.

I went thru the same thing!

@@MsLuminous I can say the same for being Indian, before Modi it you sto be embarassing admiting that you are from a backward countrybut now it's a sense of pride. With major accomplishments like Chandrayan 3.

El Salvador remains a danger place to live … it might take bekele another 10 years to clean the country 😊

What people don't understand is, all dictators started as the cure to something. People fell in totalitarian regimes due to populists making them believe they were the solution, starting a cult of idolatry. As someone who has lived in one let me say, seeing him being praised as the one who did the miracle is the first warning. He didn't do it all by himself. His people voted for him in first place, they wanted this change. Everyone that is living and working rn in El Salvador did the change. Bukele didn't go and arrest them one by one, his armed forces did. So they did the miracle too. Bukele didn't do it, him and the Salvadorians did it. Seeing shirts of him and family being sold in the market hints a populist autocrat in the making. People should start to worry by now. It's in the human psyche, power corrupts, idolatry even more.

Be careful when appreciating a single person. Bukele is the figurehead of a political/social movement that manifested when a society decided they will no longer tolerate criminals.

@@thraxxxsdyesss. especially latin americans they move dictators for some reason. nd i heard bukele changed sum in the constitution something to do with his brother. they gotta tread carefully

@@thraxxxsd Nobody single-handedly achieved everything.

It’s a bubble. With no plan whatsoever. Rights suspension and no conviction is just a pressure cooker. Oh and old fashioned corruption.

happy for you brother

Are Salvadorans still immigrating to the U.S. ? If so, why?

Actually a lot of them are returning after the clearing of gangs​@Dah42

I’m glad for your country man! I’m from DR and that’s what we all dream to be safe in our own country but it is nearly impossible.

Being attacked from a different hand is still being attacked. However, as long as there's no election interference then Bukele would just be seen as a conservative in a lot of countries as brutal as his methods are. The other thing to fear, that this video hinted towards, is police having not enough oversight and doing almost whatever they want. That would just lead to state-sponsored "gangs" of police/officials in itself.

Being extorted and having family members murdered by gangs is freedom according to the NPC meatbots

We didn’t trade anything because now we got security and freedom before we didn’t have neither

🤡 So funny!

Excellent point.

​@cdchcs The problem is this is a short term solution. When the government has unchecked power to just arrest anyone they FEEL has committed a crime, that can spiral very quickly. Throwing people in prison cells won't work, especially if you don't have the funds to sustain their sentence.

Exactly.

Financing them, probably.

The fact that the ngos are allowed to work there and that protests are allowed to walk in the streets in broad daylight... Doesn't look like a dictatorship to me

Funneling money to Israel as per usual most likely

NGOs have issues with everything, but never offer any solutions.

Absolutely.

I'm all in for Bukele's plan, but such operations always entail collateral damage where inoocent people get wrongfully arrested too. And there's a lot of them. Never forget that.

@@pavelio89 in any other country, that would be valid. But El Salvador's crime statistics were so high, that at that point this operation is necessary. Many of those "innocents" are usually not so innocent anyway.

exactly, life has consequences

@@swoopyeagle7102 And even if they were truly innocent, the diar state of E.S. was such that this sad reality of many innocents being imprisoned is far preferable to the mafia state that was before. Its colateral damage. A sad trade-off made by just how massive the problem was.

They don’t target random people

well as shown in this video, what if those inmates are innocent. Then it would be reasonable for any normal working person or human rights grouped to be a little worried that some innocent people are facing unjust punishment in these harsh prisons.

uh...collateral damage to societal order, death to bystanders,?@@HahaDamn

Well said. I am not from El Salvador, I am from Iraq and I know what it means to not have a stable country. Those organizations always try to steal the show. Viva El Salvador

Why do you assume what the father is saying true? Of course he wants his daughter out of prison. That doesnt actually prove she was not involved in gang related activity.@@dabby249

Thats what they were able to do in Japan with the Yakuza

not, really, the yakuza is disappearing@@anthonyanth8368

Exactly

When critizicing an authoritarian regime is conflated with "romanticizing gang members", then you know it's an authoritarian regime. Every government should be open to criticism, especially the ones that concentrate power. Aknowledging that taking away people's freedoms is shameful, does not make gang members less shameful. You're making a false dillema.

​@@vichomangiola wrong. No rights for gang members

The loss of civil liberties? What happens when crime is finished and he does not give back power?

1,000% correct! I knew they would make videos like these. They don’t like peace and losing control.

@@Daniel23544 nato countries are among the most peaceful in the world but sure thing putinist

@@Chris-sm2uj your a robot

​@@Chris-sm2ujNot among, but ARE the safest. No country in their right mind would ever attack a NATO country.

​@@Chris-sm2uj.....coming from the same brainwashed mind who couldnt even foresee the carnage coming if an 80 year old, 50 years in gov, dementia riddled, establishment, Democrat, Became prez......yeah lets get more insights from this one 😂

Right? How dare the government not allow these gang members to continue killing innocents?

Yep

Basically

Realistically not even lol

Same ones that made and created them 😂

I feel sorry for them but that alone doesn't stop crime. Sometimes radical measures are necessary to at least create a safe enough environment to then solve the crime at its root causes, poverty and injustice.

Problem is not every "criminal" is a criminal and those that are may not have broken laws that are morally wrong to break. Doesn't apply to the majority of the people in this video, just saying in general

Anime pfp, checks out.

​@@YaBoiBaxter2024 what did lil bro mean by this

@@muntadar1655 It’s cuz I've had to deal with people with questionable opinions who have anime pfps before and it's not necessarily the comment they made that comes off as "questionable", moreso the fact that they've got an anime pfp.

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If they break the law yes , or what you expect?

8% - Left wingers

LOL😂😂😂

That is literally what is scary about this. You could arrest anyone and call them a gang member. I'm sure plenty of people were arrested for political reasons.

Freedom to stay indoors and pay gang extorsion money 😂

Yes, a lot of freedom, 😂😂

they are crazy and most of them complaining have family that were part of the gang

The only people who complain about this are radical leftists who can and must be ignored

They had none! The people couldn't even travel between towns without fear of extorsion or even being killed for being accused of supporting an enemy gang. Now you can travel ALL over El Salvador thanks to Bukele!!!

Western and European countries find ways to criticize him.

​@@HiggenterAnd look at the state of the West right now.Europe and America are inviting the criminals in and wonder why there are crime waves in all their countries.

@@Higgenterno?

​@@Higgenterand leftist media outlets in South America

US Dem here. I support Bukele.

This is the most underrated comment.

😂😂

With all due respect your country has been cooked for a long time.

Duvalier would have laughed at the state of Haiti right now.......was he that monster we know of?

😂😂😂😂 bro in America a person can be caught on camera killing someone and they still say allegedly lol

thats how it is in a normal world, no matter how you see it, or what evidence you have, they are alleged until judge makes the decision. Obviously in this case they can stay in prison for the next 40 years, sitting there, waiting for their hearing

@@aurelijus1 Sounds like how we dealt with Jan 6 protestors.

That was already there when I got here.

Not sure if you’re aware but often times youth HAVE to give themselves those tattoos even if they’re not part of gangs.

😂😂😂😂

Subtle.

If liberals had any sense they would be liberals.

Yeah, the tattoo's kind of give away if your part of a murderous gang or not... I didn't see hardly any without tattoos.

Easily to identify.. 5 million people.. even tough out of control

You are right. Human rights organizations are often misused.

Some police act worse than the homeboys

I'll still feel safer with the police

​@@TrentAdam police take extortion money or dismember people's families ? 🤡

Kim Jong has a similar approval rate

"If 92% is the approval rate you got your answer" - 🤖

No one in America trusts Bloomberg, and this video just proves their point.

@@jaad9848 I don't like what you are implying. Do you have proof he wasn't rightly elected? Or are you just gonna accuse him like a bot. lol

@@chinesecovidanalswabs4752 3000 reporters were there, no one was taken to jail or frighten, can you say the same for Korea?

Well said

Only people that don't know the reality criticize bukele.

@@eduardojuarez1449 That's what north koreans say.

So what​@@vichomangiola

​@@eduardojuarez1449 Reality is that Bukele and most politicians deliver the drug market to the cartels with drug prohibition.

and 92% of people once agreed with George W. Bush see how well that turned out.

​@@jamesmitch9792Not ever country on the planet is America. Unlike Bush fighting wars in distant lands this is actually about national stability. Dont use your incompetent leaders as an excuse for your idiotic worldview.

@@jamesmitch9792You clearly haven’t spent a minute in Central America

go visit caracas and try surviving with that mindset@@jamesmitch9792

The world needs more men like him.

exaclty

Imagine if anywhere else in the Americas would do that, they'd solve their problems dramatically like El Salvador did.

if BUkele was a dictator or as violent as the gangs were, he would have killed them all. But he didn't, he respect their right to live, so instead of killing them he has imprisoned them.

​@@Rainbow-jb4xgBefore he was elected,I saw a documentary about El Salvador,when the police caught gang members,they would cut off the wrists,and castrate them.. probably a way to warn others, don't know if they still do this, probably not...

True. And those are exceptional circumstances. With time Bukele needs to reroute the state from exceptional circumstances to routine ones (and end the state of emergency and pay more attention if someone innocent wasn’t taken by mistake)…. but that takes time. Of course even Bukele (as much as like him so far) can be tempted by the dark side and keep the powers indefinitely … but give him time

Exactly. Let’s trot out the 3 people that disagree with the process and give them a platform. Lol. It’s like who cares

1000% agree

@@lyndonalms8664I like Bukele and the policies so far, but as governments you have to be careful not to violate civil liberties. It’s not just 3 ppl who have an issue with the exception bill being overused, it’s the families of the 70000 detainees. You should be able to locate your family members within the prison systems. When doing sweeping reforms all adjacent systems have to be reformed as well, the courts, the prison system, the conditions of the prisons, all have to be reformed

every parent thinks their child would NEVER be a criminal!

There is a popular saying. The people who are okay with the rights of others being taken away are okay because it isnt there rights. The lawlessness did not happen over night so why does el salvador want to fix it overnight? What is going to happen is he will continue to take away everyone rights if he gets away with it. You think the criminals are the real villans, no they arent, they are often product of a lawless society often caused from poor parenting but give the goverment this much power and you will see who is the real evil.

I wish the United States of America followed the same principles. We have criminals, both internal and migrants, taking over and law-abiding citizens are being punished for trying to defend themselves when these thugs violate their rights.

Brilliant

@@user-io2ym6gm8z They will never because the US is an instigator

Exactly!!!

Well said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The problem comes when innocent people end up in the crossfire, and even more worrying is the man being interviewed deciding that the number of deaths inside prisons should not be made public, saying transparency shouldn't happen.

​@@CityWhisperer querido no hay inocentes, los que están detenidos son personas de pandillas se las reconoce por sus tatuajes

@@Merry19ss Querida, hay inocentes por simple estadística. En un país donde la policía no tiene que decirte la razón del arresto ni puedes ir a juicio, gente inocente va a acabar dentro. Negarlo es negar la evidencia.

​@@Merry19ssI dislike full-body tattooes, so the images of these prisons were actually really amusing to me

@@getnoob3945 no son cualquier tatuajes, son tatuajes que representan a las pandillas terroristas.

Amazing! If you ever saw the interview between Bukele and Tucker Carlson, Bukele talked about how those leaving El Salvador wouldn’t be great. He essentially wants his people to feel proud of where they’re from. Not embarrassed of where they’re from, or feeling a need to leave because of its gang violence problem.

No one in America trusts Bloomberg, and this video just proves their point.

facts especially back in the early days of trumps presidency, if you told someone that you even had Salvadoran ancestry they think you're MS lol

​@@streetrider1001 Facts

Fernando Quevedo You are a lier , he never say that your friend is one of the corrupts criminals that are mad because they are not getting money

This comment right here! 👆 👍

one sided?

They dont like strong leaders, they wanna wake and patetic presidents, so they can RULE THEM ALL in the shadows

Can't trust western media.

@@stefanobonaiuti8243 They are asking "If security should be exchanged for personal freedom" referring to the personal freedoms of those arrested, even thought most of the people arrested are gang members who have violated the country's law and order and should have no right to freedom as they have violated the terms of their freedom and the freedom of others. They are trying to humanize those arrested.

Lets make it 0.5%. Bravo El Salvador. You make our country of America look like a joke.

sadly true@@Zarozian

​@@Zarozian USA is a joke from the beginning sorry not sorry.

Oh and some woke Americans who think criminals are just "misunderstood" and that locking them up is so cruel, their victims; who cares.

American and French don't like it either! What about criminal-I mean human rights?! Come on!

(if you were one of the unfortunate wrongly imprissoned young men, not a gang member just mistaken as one, thrown in jail with no due process would you still stand behind bukele then?...the answers probably yes, you'd stand behind him in your jail cell & ``say thank you sir for locking up an innocent young man like me, *at least if/when i finally get out of here the country I re-enter will be safe``)

@@wuhaninstituteofvirology Simple, mas de un 92% de apoyo popular y que se plasma en las calles con la actitud del pueblo deja en claro que el inevitable 1% de error se ha mantenido en los mínimos.

WOW VERY DANGEROUS SIR! I WILL NEVER GO TO EL SALVADOR ! 😡😡 THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

@@wuhaninstituteofvirology here is another way to think about it. What if you are a young man falsely imprisoned but during the temporary time you are in jail you can be grateful for the fact the rest of your family can be safe from rampant gang violence

Mientras hace recortes en vuestros servicios públicos? Mientras suben las tasas de pobreza e inseguridad alimentaria? Y qué pasa cuando los prisioneros terminen su condena y vuelvan a incorporarse en la sociedad? Volverán a lo mismo porque no les queda otra opción. No es amigo del pueblo.

Mientras hace recortes en vuestros servicios públicos? Mientras suben las tasas de pobreza e inseguridad alimentaria? Y qué pasa cuando los prisioneros terminen su condena y vuelvan a incorporarse en la sociedad? Volverán a lo mismo porque no les queda otra opción. No es amigo del pueblo.

@@Joe-cb6extu madre

Bukele says nada on building the economy.

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​@@Joe-cb6ex esos criminales no deben salir de la cárcel nunca! Hamas

American propagandists.

the mentality to defend criminals comes from Democrats who live safely in their suburban homes and need to prove how they defend the "oppressed" because they have a Savior complex

The thing Is alot of them aren't criminals and get arrested with no trial

@@ibrake4rappers Most of them were criminals, sure there were some innocents but that's a small price to pay for the safety of the entire country.

​@@ibrake4rappers it's their fault because they join their gangster friends Even if they didn't do nothing, but because they are part of the group, all groups received the same

@@ibrake4rappersget off drugs

Que bien hombre. Te felicito

El Salvador really is the beacon of hope for Latin America. I'm Mexican-American and know first hand how bad Mexico is from personal experience. Wish we had someone like Bukele to get Michoacan and all of Mexico in order.

@@Andy-im3kj unfortunately Mexico borders the u.s so access to firearms is so easy for the cartels

Have a happy retirement day in this country.👍🏻

@@seyamrahman6722well the guns are just hunks of metal and polymer if all the cartel members are locked in cages, no?

You’re totally misconstruing the argument. No one’s saying they shouldn’t be arrested. They just think people should be able to know if their family members in prison are alive or dead. Or wanting to defends a family member in prison who is innocent that didn’t get a trial. Those are the freedoms being infringed

And I'd argue, criminals breaking the law SHOULD fear the law enforcers. You don't have to respect the cops, you have to fear the law enough to not break the law.. And as far as I can tell, regular people have nothing to fear from the law.

@@bararobberbaron859 It's a cultural and systemic issue though. It's far better to promote a culture where people respect the law and respect the law enforcement as a result, then it is to allow conditions to degrade to the point that gang-life seems appealing to regular people, and then use fear and excessive control to counter it. You don't see people living in Iceland needing any reason to "fear" the police, because people there respect their own country, their own laws and the enforcers of those. Culture and economic opportunity are a far better way for a safe society than a police-state running on fear.

​@AK-jm1sc How do you think culture comes to be? A culture of respect will be build after all the gangs are rid off, and then a clean slate of a state will be build, then the government is respected

​@@AK-jm1scif Iceland tries to develop economic first with a rampant gang issue the country would burn

No one in America trusts Bloomberg, and this video just proves their point.

No one in America trusts Bloomberg, and this video just proves their point.

Yeah it wild

You forgot to mention the part where you also have throw in thousands of innocent civilians. But why stop there?! You could have a 0% crime rate if you just throw everyone in jail

Yes, 100,000 yes

@@therolando608 "You forgot to mention the part where you also have throw in thousands of innocent civilians" They literally have the name of the crime syndicates they're part of tatooed on their faces. It is only Criminals in the gangs and Criminals that want people to think they're in the gangs that are in there.

Tough on crime vs stripping constitutional freedoms for ALL citizens

@@johnsnow6019What freedoms does one have in a country run by gangs? These people have gained freedoms, not lost them. Go ask them how much freedom they have now vs 10 years ago.

​@@johnsnow6019 If gangs control your streets you don't have any constitutional freedoms my friend.

@@johnsnow6019 6-20k people died every year because of gang members, they had to pay protection money to gang members. were was the freedom then they couldnt even walk the streets. their was no freedom before they lived in fear dont talk.

This is what happened in New York city when Rudy G. was there. What is the difference??

It’s not a flaw. It’s a tactic to make other countries stay corrupted and unsafe.

They only show up when someone wants to/did fix the problem.

The human rights activists did actually complain about the gang violence, you just weren't listening

@@therolando608that’s not true you are a lier

​@therolando608 Whether human rights activists complain about gang violence or not, criminals gangs tend to laugh at when they are told they are violating human rights so it's pretty useless. President Bukele did the only & obvious thing that needed to be done which is to be tough on crime.

Not people say its a dictatorship, Americans does

People from the far left in the West do that.

@@tonytaf107 chhhhh i guess america says that bcz he has roots from Palestine hhhhhhhhhhhhh

Someone who actually is more familiar with American far-left here(Marxists particularly). Absolutely not. Don't get me wrong, they do have their criticisms of Bukele, especially on an economic level. But believe me, they mostly have a nuanced take on Bukele in regards to the crackdowns on gangs. They do worry about false arrests (many Marxists severely criticize The Great Purge for this issue). But if you ask Marxists, they (usually) don't fail to acknowledge that Bukele's gang crackdown was an overall positive thing that brought stability during unstable times. The people you are referring to are likely just hard-line Democrats. Democrats are not as radical as you think. Sometimes they are twice as anti-communist as even very hard-line Republicans.

Not to mention, one can also make the deduction that the most of the non approving 8% is likely to be people who have been benefiting from the crime one way or another. Why? Well 8% happens to be half a million of the population, how many of them would you guess to be related to the 75k gang members in prison? Be it familial ties, lover of one, friend, or associate etc., with such numbers it really wouldn't be strange for quite a few of the half a million non approving to have ties to crime one way or another even if they aren't active participants yes? And it also wouldn't be strange for them to oppose and protest the current regime huh? They have all the incentive to do so. If this conjecture is anything close to reality, it would mean basically almost 1/10th of the country was getting along with crime, while the 9/10 suffers. That's a terrifying rate of entrenchment of criminal culture with deep roots, that sure needs drastic measures to get rid of. Until a lasting stability and change in mentality can be achieved, these harsh measures must be kept, or change will not be lasting.

My motto, exactly ❤

Facts.

Central America but yes El Salvador is a miracle.

@@josecontreras6702 thanks. Edited

@@maka6134they all follow the same globalist agenda

They aren't allowed to say otherwise. If they do they'll end up in prison.

@@ratatatuff HAHAHAHA you’re definitely not Salvadoran, we’re all happy about the new change and president, we have experienced crime for decades, why would we fear a government who finally gave us liberty to walk in peace.

@@brandonisaaclopezgiron3904 I see a clear resemblance to Germany 1938 ...

​@@ratatatuffAtleast their not being murdered by your buddies

@@ratatatuff US IQ over here...

Everything in America is a business, especially probationary and rehabilitation services, they don’t want a solution like this to happen because they’d be out of a job

And they are saying it now, since they now have the freedom and safety to say it. The fact they don't see their hypocricy is incredible.

By the way 90% of NGO's are propaganda tools of US deep state and Soros and WEF If and NGO tells you something, sure do believe the truth is the opposite.

Obviously

Obviously it's biased everything you see and hear has a bias, but how is it idiotic?

No one in America trusts Bloomberg, and this video just proves their point.

As always. The media plays a big role on why the world is so bad today. Crooked jornalist regurgitating master puppets sayings.

how is this biased and idiotic? when he is clearly showing the opposition and their point of view?

It is not threat. It's already harming

@@sweetsour401Good.

at least eggs are worth something, these gang members are not even worth anything, the opposite.

I feel with the advances in technology we're having, in the near future, this statement just simply won't be true anymore.

​@@aussieballs8215it'll always be true, tech is just a tool.

you wouldnt say that if u were sitting in that prison because of false accussations

@@whis3968 I know some of the police are acting on their own. I don't think the innocent should be imprisoned. There should be avenues for them to be exonerated

Agreed. I visited recently and I'm not sure I've ever felt so safe while travelling. Town squares were lively and full of families late into the night, something which - as explained to me by a local - was unheard of a few years ago.

I stayed in Santa Ana in hostel last year. It was late at night but I was hungry so I asked the owner if it was safe to walk and grab food. He said yes, so I walked at night, ate, and walked back without any incident.

@@THEUSMCMOTA I traveled there for business reason few years ago, back then I wouldn't even bother to ask, you stay at hotel, lock the door, no exception, I wouldn't even dare to stay in cheap hostel. You tell me someone can change that without waging a civil war with 10% population dead at the end, I would have laughed at you.

Prolonging state of emergency could be used as a tool to never leave the position of power but if the people are happy then thats all that matters.

​@@Filippenzen413 It is not sustainable as drug prohibition keeps injecting gangs with money. However the opposition ignores drug prohibition has been a disaster too.

well said. El Salvador is a democratic country. Acts and administrations are made under collective wills.

Yet*

yes, but never trust an NGO.

Remember when the 🇨🇦 PM used the war measures act and seized the bank accounts of truck drivers who were peacefully protesting? Pepperidge farm something something...

​@@davidjackowski4336Brotha you're telling me that these people had freedom under MS-13?

No one in America trusts Bloomberg, and this video just proves their point.

“Assuming the vote isn’t rigged”

Several international organizations checking for irregularities confirm there was no fraud, so yeah, the election wasn't rigged.

@@skeetxeeter6893 50/50 Plus we are not from El Salvador to really know or care to search it up lol, I myself am not even from united states

South American needs authoritarian regimes that take away peoples privacy, freedom, and liberties?

South America has Milei too

Can you guys spare some for us Americans?

You mean CENTRAL America. But yes indeed ! If Mexico wasn't so corrupt they would follow suit !

Especially Venezuela. I’m an American Patriot but I was born in Venezuela. Would be nice to see the country were half my family is at turn around for the better

I wish we could have him here in the USA. 😢

It would be nice, he is like JFK was very popular.@@GameOnShanny

better than sleepy joe or any politician in power

You are right, We got a mayor problem here in the US with both political parties. @@WrapperPresidentsShow

​@@GameOnShannyyou already have Biden 😂😂😂

Actually drug prohibition delivered the profitable market to the gangs. That is their main source of income.

@@jonatand2045 bruh, pretty much everywhere drug prohibition is real but not every country has gang that kills poeple on the street lol

@@Dezu123 Some don't have many drug consumers or a large export market. That isn't the case here. In America prohibition has been failing for decades and will keep doing so.

Your counter-argument makes no sense either because the people still don't have any freedom because of dictator Bukele turned El Salvador into a dictatorship.

@@jonatand2045 make super harsh penalties for drug making and dealing and you will not have drugs on the street. Simple as that.

Shocking concept: when you throw everyone in jail, even without evidence, crime rates go down

bro 😂 90% of them literally have gang tattoos plattered all over their bodies . A few other percentages are people who are related to gangs indirectly and actually falsely imprisoned

@@therolando608 "without evidence" your incredulity is irrelevant.

@@therolando608 shocking concept: Society with massive societal problems cannot afford to uphold luxury modern values. In the words of Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake."

​​@@therolando608When you make stuff up...nothing happens

The Arab is making the country poorer because there are fewer workers in the economy and they are wasting money on big jails.

Sometimes you just gotta parent.

Just remember drug prohibition is what made the gangs powerful in the first place.

@@jonatand2045 Hush now, there is no such thing as adaptation

@@jonatand2045 Of course, prohibiting drugs, no, this is not at all related to the historical context of the country's conflict and how the Salvadorans deported from the United States brought with them the Gangsta culture of the marginal neighborhoods.

@@jonatand2045 Besides, what stupidity, with drugs or not, there are still gangs in places where, yes or no, there is a prohibition on drugs. it doesn't make a difference.

Thank you love Australia and it’s people from El Salvador ❤️

I swear it's some matrix sht. I don't know why they're doing so much to protect criminals instead of their honest, hardworking citizens. It's not just el Salvador. It's everywhere else. It's like they want to us remain oppressed so they can remain in control.

They are fighting for those they believe were falsely accused. They still have a right to see their loved ones especially when they are being held for crimes they aren't being told

There are prisons for "normal criminals" , the CECOT is for terrorism. I think terrorism it's not the same as some random tief getting caught. And before the gangs were classified as terrorist a lot of them were parading theirs tattos and doing crimes left and right, because they were the bosses of the neighbourhoods. They weren't hiding. They even had their meeting places. Everybody knew. It wasn't a secret.

@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 if crime is down so much, then they were clearly not falsely imprisoned huh

@@ninofromkitchennightmares1497 Rights are a luxury, and resources are limited. That's what it meant to be in a state of emergency.

Couldn't have been said better. That's basically the whole video