Easy to "clean up" the country when you throw suspected gang members in jail with no due process. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/el-salvador
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Proof is in the pudding, isn’t it? Rather presumptuous, honestly, as an outsider to criticize.
If you have ever lived in a 3rd world country where gangs and cartels run everything from the local bodegas to judges and government offices… you might feel different about “due-process”.
El Salvador wasn’t safe. Now it is.
It’s that simple.
He’s given his people sovereign money and a crime free society. If he was a malevolent dictator, he wouldn’t give up his biggest lever over the people… their currency.