Making predictions is a difficult task for the Kremlinologist. I usually need the ‘what’ to happen in order to have info with which to figure out the ‘why’. But as with science, the hallmark of knowing what you’re talking about is the ability to call the shots.
My apologies for not having blogged much on El Salvador specifically and Central America generally. There is a great color revolution going on right now; GAE is using the international gangs to destabilize those national governments. You already saw it happen in the headlines, that Haiti’s government has collapsed into ‘anarchy’…
Haiti remains in ‘acute political and institutional crisis’, Security Council hears
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Special Representative Helen La Lime, who also heads the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), outlined the need for structural reforms to tackle gang violence, address impunity and corruption, strengthen the justice system and sustainably transform the economy.
“The contours of a common vision shared by all, will ultimately depend on Haitian stakeholders placing the national interest above their own aspirations,” she said. “Success will be determined by their collective willingness to compromise”.
Meanwhile, gang violence “continues to plunge major urban centres into lawlessness and grief.”
We gringos saw this for ourselves in 2020 with Antifa and BLM. Problem: anarchy in the streets. Solution: bankster-imposed Climate Change.
“Criminal armed groups have a strong hold on the economic and social lives of millions…Their indiscriminate use of abduction, murder, as well as sexual and gender-based violence, as a means to terrorize local populations in the fight to extend their territorial control is particularly abhorrent”, she explained.
Question: How do you know this isn’t a simple police action?
Answer: Cui Bono.
Against this backdrop, the UN and [new] Haitian Government have jointly resolved to strengthen international support, epitomized by the imminent creation of a multi-donor basket fund.
“The gang phenomenon cannot be addressed through policing alone”, Ms. La Lime explained…
h ttps://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2022-07-28/haiti-new-criminal-code-comes-into-force/
The new Criminal Code will make significant changes to Haitian criminal law, notably in its effect on women, children, and sexual minorities. Abortion, for example, whether done by food, beverage, medicine, or violent means was previously illegal. The new Criminal Code will legalize abortion carried out in a recognized public or private clinic for a gestation period of up to 12 weeks, or in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother. Sexual assault of a child under 15 years old was previously punishable by either 15 years of hard labor (in lieu of the 10-year sentence for sexual assault in general) or a life sentence of hard labor if the abuser was in a position of authority over the child. The new Criminal Code will add penalties for child prostitution, and includes a 15- to 20-year sentence for the rape of a child under 15 years of age. Crimes committed on the basis of a person’s real or presumed sexual orientation are now considered aggravating factors in sentencing. The new Criminal Code will also establish repeated sexual harassment as a crime…
Other major changes to Haitian criminal law through the decree will include the addition of crimes against humanity as a class of offenses.
GAE won.
On June 22, 2022, the Haitian newspaper Le National reported that the executive branch of the Haitian government had postponed bringing into force the new Code Pénal (Criminal Code) of Haiti from June 24, 2022, to June 24, 2024… The Haitian Conference of Bishops denounced the new Criminal Code for bringing what they viewed as foreign values into Haitian law, and a petition was launched calling on the president to revoke the new law, claiming it promoted homosexuality and lowered the age of consent to 15.
Eh, they kinda won. The priests who directly engage the ghettos of Squatemala are a tough breed. It’s fascinating that both the least and most intellectually capable people can recognize evil while the Normals never get a clue. That means even Satan does market research. Heck, he probably invented it.
Anyway, the Haitian gang violence will continue until the new government gets implemented, which means this ‘gang anarchy’ is actually a Hegelian dialetic.
Meanwhile, El Salvador has been trying very hard, and successfully, to avoid their own Hegelian dialetic. This is a typical headline:
In El Salvador, a Tough Anti-Gang Crackdown Proves Popular
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By AP, 27 December 2022
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — For decades, El Salvador’s main street gangs, Barrio 18 and the MS-13, have extorted money from nearly everyone and taken violent revenge against those who don’t pay. The gangs, which have been estimated to count some 70,000 members, have long controlled swaths of territory and extorted and killed with impunity.
Nine months into a state of emergency declared by President Nayib Bukele to fight street gangs, El Salvador has seen more than 1,000 documented human rights abuses and about 90 deaths of prisoners in custody. And Bukele’s popularity ratings have soared.
All is well… no?
More than 60,000 people have been arrested under the measures, which suspend the right of association, the right to be informed of the reason for an arrest and access to a lawyer. The government also can intervene in the telephone calls and mail of anyone it considers a suspected gang member. The time someone can be held without charge has been extended from three days to 15 days.
Rights activists say young men are frequently arrested just based on their age, on their appearance or whether they live in a gang-dominated slum. The country’s human rights official, Raquel Caballero, said 2,100 people have been released after arrest because they had no ties to the street gangs.
Why are Salvadorans putting up with seemingly unending renewals of one-month emergency decrees that limit constitutional rights and allow police and soldiers wide latitude in searches, arrests and pre-trial detention?
Because 58k/60k is a 97% success rate, the poor don’t suffer protection rackets, murders are way down, what’s not to like?
Juan Pappier, the acting associate director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch, said it was an error to think that “you can achieve success based on massive violations of human rights,” arguing that mass roundups won’t dismantle the gangs’ organizational structures.
The boldfaces proves that Pappier is a particularly hypocritical Marxist.
Bukele is defiant in the face of such criticisms, writing in his Twitter account: “They are afraid we will be successful, and that other governments will want to copy it.”
AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS DID!
Honduras declares state of emergency against gang crime
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By Marlon Gonzalez for AP, 25 November 2022
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras became the second country in Central America to declare a state of emergency to fight gang crimes like extortion.
For years, street gangs have charged protection money from bus and taxi drivers and store owners in Honduras, as in neighboring El Salvador.
If this has been the situation for years then why is the government taking drastic action now?
“This social democratic government is declaring war on extorsion, just as it has, since the first day, declared wars on corruption, impunity and drug trafficking,” Castro said. The measure must still be approved by Congress. “We are going to eradicate extortion in every corner of our country.”
On Friday, supported the move, saying bus drivers were tired of being threatened and killed for not paying protection money. Lanza said drivers had been asking for a crackdown for years.
“We can’t put up any longer with workers being killed and paying extortion,” Lanza said. “We hope these measures work and remain in place.”
[Jorge Lanza the leader of the bus operators in Honduras,] said that 50 drivers have been killed [for not paying protection money] so far in 2022, and a total of 2,500 have been killed over the last 15 years. He estimated the companies and drivers have paid an average of about $10 million per month to the gangs in order to operate.
[A similar] measure has proved popular among the public in [neighboring] El Salvador, and has resulted in the arrest of more than 56,000 people for alleged gang ties.
The Associated Press lied. This crackdown isn’t about bus drivers facing protection rackets. It’s spillover from their neighbor; the gangs are using Honduras as a safe haven from Salvadoran crackdowns. THAT is why they’re finally addressing the problem.
Bukele is currently my favorite politician on the planet. While he still (officially) plans to rely upon Dumbocracy to maintain his authority in 2024, his current enjoyment of emergency powers gives me hope.
So, GAE has a problem: MS-13 destabilization is not working in El Salvador and the latter is now inspiring copycats. Worse, the latter is a nonparticiant with BOTH the Swift and BRICS banking systems. GAE believes it must act; here’s the smoking gun, from both sides of the U.S. Congress:
Cassidy, Risch, Menendez Introduce Legislation to Mitigate Risks of El Salvador’s Adoption of Bitcoin
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16 February 2022
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today introduced the Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act to require the State Department to write a report on El Salvador’s recognition of Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, as an accepted currency within the country. The State Department report would study the dangers of this law regarding cybersecurity, economic stability, and democratic governance in El Salvador, as well as the potential risks to the U.S. economy.
“El Salvador recognizing Bitcoin as official currency opens the door for money laundering cartels and undermines U.S. interests,” said Dr. Cassidy. “If the United States wishes to combat money laundering
and preserve the role of the dollar as a reserve currency of the world, we must tackle this issue head on.”
“El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender raises significant concerns about the economic stability and financial integrity of a vulnerable U.S. trading partner in Central America,” said Sen. Risch. “This new policy has the potential to weaken U.S. sanctions policy, empowering malign actors like China and organized criminal organizations. Our bipartisan legislation seeks greater clarity on El Salvador’s policy and requires the administration to mitigate potential risk to the U.S. financial system.”
Torres, Crawford Introduce Bill to Mitigate Risks of El Salvador’s Adoption of Bitcoin as Legal Currency
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4 April 2022
Congresswoman Norma J. Torres (D-CA-35), Chair of the Central America Caucus, and Congressman Rick Crawford (R-AR-01), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation, today introduced the Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act to mitigate the risks to the United States of El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal currency.
“Global financial institutions have studied and detailed the numerous risks of El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin, and the international community acknowledges the potential danger,” said Congresswoman Torres. “El Salvador is an independent democracy and we respect its right to self-govern, but the United States must have a plan in place to protect our financial systems from the risks of this decision, which appears to be a careless gamble rather than a thoughtful embrace of innovation.”
TORRES EXPLICITLY ADMITTED SHE WAS ATTEMPTING TO VIOLATE A SOVEREIGN NATION’S INTERNAL DECISIONS.
GAE needs to converge El Salvador in order to end Bitcoin’s threat to their petrodollar surveillance state. The criminal-gang color revolution isn’t working, the 2024 elections are imposing a time limit and Bukele don’t do dhimmi:
Why I love Bukele, is that he didn’t just talk smack in response to that naked threat of bankster intervention. He proceeded to THIS:
President Nayib Bukele hosts 44 countries in El Salvador to discuss Bitcoin
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By Florence Muchai, 16 May 2022
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced on Twitter that Monday, 16 May 2022, 32 central banks and 12 financial authorities from 44 nations would convene in El Salvador. The meeting will address financial inclusion, the digital economy, banking the unbanked, El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption, and its opportunities in the country.
Bukele’s tweets arrive days after the Twitter feed “Bitcoin Beach” announced that several countries have flown to El Salvador, officially confirming the meeting. On 13 May 2022, the Twitter account for Bitcoin Beach announced that central bankers from Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Burundi, Congo, Costa Rica, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, India, Namibia, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, and 25 other developing nations would fly to El Salvador.
YES! YES! YES! When Evil, Inc. tells you that it’s going to come after you, the correct next step is recruiting allies who are themselves, less than thrilled at how Evil has treated them. Who knew that so many nations are interested in a banking option that’s neither GAE nor China?
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We believe in Bitcoin, not blockchain. Bitcoin, not crypto. Bitcoin, not Defi. Bitcoin, not Web3. Bitcoin, not CBDCs. Bitcoin, not centralized neo-banks that sell you fractional-reserve paper bitcoin.
Oh yeah, baby! Shots fired!
My prediction for 2023: GAE will attack El Salvador directly. It must, in order to survive.