El Salvador Doesn’t Need Helicopter Rides

This started off as a hilariously Red Pill reading of El Salvador’s recent crackdown on violent street gangs… pregnant girlfriends most affected… but it quickly diverged into a failed color revolution and a nation’s remarkably competent leadership breaking free of the banksters.

‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands into despair

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By Tom Phillips in Salcoatitán, 8 June 2022

Let’s try that headline again.

‘It’s a war on the whores’: El Salvador’s mass arrests of violent young men send thousands of their lovers into despair

Only a few weeks ago, Sandra García was looking forward to the brighter future Nayib Bukele promised El Salvador’s opportunity-starved youth when he swept to power three years ago.

“I gave him my vote believing we’d have a better life,” said the 23-year-old, one of hundreds of thousands of young Salvadorans who chose the authoritarian-minded millennial as their president.

Bukele is only age 41.

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El Salvador’s murder rate decreased to historic lows during Bukele’s tenure, falling by over 50 percent during his first year in office. 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. Between March and June 2022, Bukele’s government arrested over 37,000 people with gang affiliations after a significant spike in murders, leading to accusations of human rights violations being committed by El Salvador’s security forces.

He’s getting good results AND the GAE accuses him of playing footsie with organized crime like it always does? I am already impressed with Bukele.

Bukele… has been accused of governing in an authoritarian manner. On 9 February 2020, Bukele was criticized for sending soldiers into the Legislative Assembly to encourage the passage of a bill that would fund additional purchases of equipment for the police and armed forces. On 1 May 2021, he led a move to fire the attorney general and five supreme court judges of El Salvador, which the United States Department of State and Organization of American States (OAS) denounced as democratic backsliding.

Authoritarian, maybe; anti-GAE, absolutely!

Following the approval of Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador on 7 September 2021, protests against Bukele’s government took place.

Anti-GAE is CONFIRMED WITH AUTHORITY! He’s running the banksters out of town!

In February 2018, The Times of Israel published an image of Bukele “in deep reflection at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City.”

He married Gabriela Rodríguez, a psychologist and educator, on 6 December 2014. In 2018, Bukele told the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, that Rodríguez has “Jewish-Sephardic blood”.

Sounds like he had a smooth entry into the GAE… foreign-loyal, ruled over by his Jewess wife… whence the falling out?

In February 2020, Bukele wanted to secure a 109 million dollar loan from the United States to go to increase funding for the [anti-gang] Territorial Control Plan.

So far, he sounds like a typical GAE plant.

…On 1 May 2021, Nuevas Ideas made a coalition with three other political parties, gaining control of two thirds of the legislature. On the same day, the Legislative Assembly voted to remove the five justices of the Supreme Court’s constitutional court and Raúl Melara, El Salvador’s attorney general. The event has been condemned as a self-coup by opposition politicians, accusing Bukele and Nuevas Ideas of committing a power grab. The incident was condemned by the United States and has been cited as an instance of democratic backsliding.

It WAS a coup, obviously, but a nationalist one. Opening theory, Bukele is a skilled politician who saw a chance to help his nation AND secure himself in power at the same time… and to judge from the timing, that loan was merely a robbery of Wall Street to pay for the “regime change”! Methinks it ain’t gonna be paid back.

On 17 May 2021, the United States named five of Bukele’s ministers and aides as being corrupt… Following the report, the United States diverted funding to El Salvador away from government institutions, instead giving funding to civil society groups.

Color revolution INCOMING!

On 4 June 2021, Bukele placed Ernesto Muyshondt, who succeeded Bukele as Mayor of San Salvador from 2018 to 2021, under house arrest on suspicions of electoral fraud and illegal negotiations with gangs to gain votes for ARENA in the 2014 presidential election. Muyshondt had just been named by Luis Almagro, the General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), as one of his anti-corruption advisors, and as a result, El Salvador withdrew from the Organization of American States’ anti-corruption accord.

Bukele nipped it in the bud. You rock, world’s coolest dictator. (His words, not mine)

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Those dreams imploded when the man she planned to marry, Juan José Ibáñez García, was seized during of one of the most ferocious security crackdowns in recent Latin American history.

Two days later Ibáñez – who friends and family say worked in a local pizzeria and had no links to crime – was moved to a maximum-security penitentiary housing many of the 38,000-plus people the government claims to have imprisoned since the offensive began in late March. A fortnight later the 21-year-old was dead – one of at least 35 prisoners who have reportedly died in mysterious circumstances since Bukele declared a draconian state of exception supposedly designed to annihilate his country’s gangs.

He was a goot boy g’wan ta college.., who was inexplicably accused of being a violent ganger, then unnecessarily transferred to high security, where he still ended up dead in a violent confrontation that his dreamy-eyed girlfriend insists wasn’t his fault. Hmm.

Many of El Salvador’s 6 million citizens are delighted at the assault on US-born gangs, which have wreaked havoc since taking root here after the 12-year civil war ended in 1992. “He’s been rounding up all these scoundrels … we feel so much safer,” said Sandra López, 61, a supporter who attended a recent pro-Bukele demo in downtown San Salvador. Polls show Bukele has become even more popular since the state of exception started, with approval ratings of more than 90%.

That percentage seems legit, which is unreal and per the mathematical concept of regression, not going to last. I know my country exports many evils but street gangs surprise me. *checks* sigh, Drumpf Derangement Syndrome.

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How the US helped create El Salvador’s bloody gang war

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In 2015, homicides in El Salvador rivalled the most violent peak of the civil war, and it ranks consistently among the world’s most violent nations…

The story of El Salvador’s gang problem is a study in shortsighted thinking – from governments in Washington and San Salvador, on both sides of the political spectrum – that has backfired disastrously. In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump railed against “the savage gang MS-13”, and called on Congress “to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminals, to break into our country.”

The gang is the president’s favourite public menace to invoke in his bid to convince US voters that illegal immigration constitutes an urgent crisis and a threat to national security…

Obviously biased article is biased. What would life be like, if I lived among only people who thought like I did? Even here in the Manosphere and Dissident Right, we have many strong disagreements with each other. Yet we still hang out together and given half a chance, cooperate. Frankly, we’re the better off (and know it) because we challenge each other’s ideas.

Rather than a problem to be deported away, however, the reality of the gang is considerably more complex. Born out of the ecology of Los Angeles’s fierce gang warfare, MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a brutal civil war still raging at home. In time, the gang expanded to include other nationalities, and it spread to other American cities. Today, in the US, it numbers no more than 10,000 members and functions mostly – its penchant for sensational violence aside – like an average American street gang, fighting to control neighborhood turf and local drug sales.

That is a lie. Living in Los Angeles and working for a utility company, I was assigned to gang territory specifically because I was white. All the white gangs had been persecuted into oblivion, thus… paradoxically… the barrios were safer for native whites than for the imported diversity.

The smug hippie liberal bubble boy writing this article has no idea how much violence overlooks him simply because he’s not perceived as a competitor.

In the late 90s, the Latino gangs of LA found an export mechanism: in response to MS-13’s growing clout and amid Bill Clinton’s immigration crackdown, the US began deporting foreign-born residents convicted of wide-ranging crimes. Thousands of convicts were sent back to the Northern Triangle each year – the neighboring Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Among them were members of MS-13 and their LA rivals, the Eighteenth Street gang, or Barrio 18. In a region reeling from endemic poverty, wars and political violence, the struggle for survival and dominance of these Americanised gangsters produced a sociological phenomenon.

Export mechanism? Americanized? Screw you, bubble boy. I’m a Los Angeleno who lived what you described. Those murderers were imported specifically to murder. Ninety percent of the murders in Los Angeles, 90s-00s, were by illegal immigrant gang enforcers because they faced no punishment worse than deportation. Hell, the authorities would PAY for their return faster than the police could trace the bullets!

Thus did LA’s politics encourage the immigration of the most violent members of Central/South American gangs. Don’t blame Trump for pushing against that; it’s one of the things he did right despite you.

El Salvador had small, disorganised neighbourhood gangs before. But, according to a popular view in El Salvador, these mass deportations changed everything in the country. Many have come to believe that the US got rid of its problem at El Salvador’s expense. The state’s institutions had been gutted by conflict, poverty and corruption. The deportees came back from the streets of LA with tattoos and baggy clothes and brought along with them gang culture, urban warfare tactics and criminal networks from prison. The Salvadoran youths, a generation of jobless foot soldiers who made easy recruits, flocked to their banner. The maras have since drawn three generations into an escalating cycle of conflict that offers no easy escape. Today, the countries of the Northern Triangle, where the maras predominate, rank among the world’s highest murder rates and account for 75% of the migrants arriving at the southern US border. The maras, in this analysis, are the primary and most urgent problem facing countries such as El Salvador.

Which is it, you piece-of-shit Dumbocrats? Are illegal immigrants only coming here hoping for a better life, or is El Salvador the murder capitol of the world because Trump sent them back?

El Salvador’s government and its law enforcement have been quick to support this view. According to Salvadoran government numbers, there are 60,000 gang members and some 10% of the population are dependent on or otherwise tied to the gangs – in a country of just over 6 million.

Bukele imprisoning 30,000 suspected gangers is reasonable given that context. And no, it’s not America’s fault if we return the criminals. At least, not the ordinary Americans.

There remains the GAE, that vast, institutional evil that has organized this massive migration. You don’t really think all those poor people are traveling to USA on foot with no supplies, do you? No, the effort is well- and internationally-coordinated, and the media is careful never to discuss HOW they’re getting here.

So far as the headlines tell you, migrants just appear at the border, shoeless and hungry.

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But the crackdown has been a nightmare for the hundreds of women who have been sleeping rough outside La Esperanza [prison], desperately seeking information about loved ones arrested on vague charges.

Uh-huh. Bucky Beta doesn’t have any woman (mothers excepted) holding a candlelight vigil for his release just outside the prison gates. For weeks.

“This isn’t a war on gangs, it’s a war on the people,” seethed one woman from the city of Santa Ana who was looking for her brother and asked not to be named.

Further up the street sat a woman in even greater distress. Mari Hernández said her partner, Saul Gómez, had worked at a sugar-grinding plant until police arrested him at their home in late April.

“They said it was an order from the president that people should be brought in whether or not they were criminals … and that if they didn’t detain him they’d be arrested themselves for not following the law,” claimed the pregnant 24-year-old.

Pregnant and not married? I thought El Salvador was Catholic. I bet 90% of it is… the 90% glad to see the government ending those up-to-fifty murders per day.

Police don’t arrest people “just because” during a major operation against specific targets. I’m not saluting them or anything, just pointing out the obvious fact that they don’t have the spare time to fool around for no good reason in that situation.

The officers told Hernández her 25-year-old partner would soon be free – but five weeks later he remained behind bars while she was two weeks away from giving birth.

It is not difficult to understand why the authorities are eager to depict El Salvador’s violence as the original sin. Doing so has allowed the Salvadoran regime to blame the cause not only on a gang culture imported from the US…

Per Wikipedia, Bukele went on record on Twitter not wanting his people to leave for USA. He’s not upset that some of them are coming back.

…but on often simplified notions of crime that have little to do with difficult and costly political solutions.

Hehheh. “‘Lock ’em up’ doesn’t work because it’s too simple a response! We need a political solution! Specifically, a regime change to somebody that Creepy Joe Biden says is okay!”

And in case you weren’t already thinking CIA:

Bukele declared his “war on gangs” on Sunday 27 March after an explosion of bloodshed shocking even for a country that until recently was considered the most violent on Earth. El Salvador’s murder rate has plummeted since the populist took power in 2019 – allegedly thanks to a secret pact with leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha gang. But on the eve of the crackdown – in a wave of attacks seemingly calculated to puncture one of Bukele’s key claims to success – 62 people were murdered in a single day.

“That Saturday was just horrifying … I told my kids not to go out because things were really messy,” said Jorge Beltrán, a crime reporter who has covered the gangs for more than two decades. “Once, on the most terrible day, there were something like 50 [murders]. But 60-something? This had never happened before.”

One body was dumped at the entrance to Bukele’s pet project: a resort town nicknamed Surf City with which the former advertising executive hopes to boost the economy and rebrand El Salvador as a tropical paradise for sunseekers and cryptocurrency fans.

“It was a huge blow to the president’s public image – and image is so important to him, that he needed to come up with something that had never been done before,” said Tiziano Breda, a Central America analyst from Crisis Group.

Immediately before implementing something that had obviously been planned in advance, “street gangs” attempted to cripple El Salvador’s tourism industry in a way that would make Bukele look weak. Then a globalist NGO claimed that the subsequent, planned crackdown is only because Bukele is protecting his ego.

Three things to know about Crisis Group:

1. It’s headquartered in Brussels
2. To “prevent war”, which is a euphemism for preserving the international status quo and
3. Its CEO is a Kenyan named Comfort Ero.

Closer to ego than eros, I would guess.

Bukele’s “something” was a state of exception that was immediately approved by the parliament his party overwhelmingly controls.

So much for Crisis Group’s theory that Bukele was protecting himself.

The results have been jaw-dropping, with more people arrested during the last two months than in the whole of last year – most of them young and underprivileged men and women whose names and photographs are splashed across state media each day. “It is really, really stunning,” said Breda. “This is an all-out, nationwide operation to capture anyone who may have or has had any relationship to gangs.”

Wow, a high-level politician is taking risks to defend his nation’s national security and people. Jaw-dropping indeed!

The tourism minister, Morena Valdez, celebrated the crackdown during a visit to Surf City, where an international surfing competition was taking place. “For the tourist sector it has been a boom,” Valdez said.

Tourism is up! Murder is down! This is a problem because it made the people love their leader!

Yet critics see the state of exception as the latest phase in El Salvador’s march towards tyranny under a messianic leader who has already amassed huge power and sarcastically calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator”.

I’m sure Bukele is no saint, but he might just be… indeed… the world’s coolest dictator.

Because in addition to securing a nationalist government, at GAE’s expense no less, then heading off a retaliatory color revolution, then cracking down on street gangs that GAE has begun funding instead of his government… guessing that latter from GAE’s projection, constantly accusing Bukele of allying with organized crime… and then giving the ultimate F-U to GAE banksters by taking his entire economy Bitcoin, Bukele is proving to be way more interesting than all the single suits of North America combined.

He’s actually doing stuff. And the popped cherry on top, is all the unmarried skanks crying that her lover is now rotting in a prison cell.

We should do something about that.

Methinks that the next great advancement in criminal justice, will be when we start going after the bad guys by going through young women outside male authority.

Maybe civil-rights protections should only be for men? Women will either enjoy those protections by proxy, by belonging to a man, or police can check up on her at will to determine who she’s texting all the time.

I bet we could end the drug war by declaring a War On Skanks instead. The benefit of the drug war has always been 1. the ease of prosecution for possession, plus 2. the people who deal drugs tend to be criminal lowlifes in general.

Nailing them for fornication instead has… possibilities.