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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I don’t understand how the UN can complain about undeveloped countries and then COMPLAIN more when someone figures out how to fix it
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Brazilian here. Some mayors down here are following the public security Bukele playbook, and it is working.
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What a great line: “Bukele has been condemned by just about anybody in the business of condemning"
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Bukele is the biggest case study in letting someone cook and them actually cooking.
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Another Salvadorean here, when you have been robbed on the street at gun point or with a knife to your ribs for DECADES, when you knew people killed by gangmembers (in my case former co-workers), when you could not visit your family out of fear due to heavy gang presence. Having Bukele as president and actually seeing the results It feels like an unreal victory for the good people. Really like something I would not see in my lifetime. You have to be insane to want to go back to the hell we were before.
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I’m an immigration attorney in New York focusing primarily on Asylum cases. Based on what I’ve heard from clients about the gang violence I can understand why the citizens would overwhelmingly follow Bukele.
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"Choosing between a corrupt democracy or a virtuous dictatorship was one of the most difficult dilemmas faced by human society."
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I'm from Mexico, also a crime-ridden state, and I literally cried over hearing that it's possible for a violent country to find peace. Thank you for sharing
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As a small business owner living here, I can say the ambience of the country has changed incredibly. The thing most people would openly and understandbley criticize Bukele about is his questionable decisions with Bitcoin, and also some accusations of corruption and lack of transparency with where some of the government spending goes. Besides that though, pretty much everyone wants him to stay as president. Businesses have been booming and so has foreign investment and tourism. The international community can lambast him as much as they want, but it's worth noting it was an autocrat that made Singapore into what it is today (it's actually something Bukele has vocally stated he wants to emulate). Who's to say El Salvador might not also go down that road in the future.
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As salvadorean, Bukele is the best thing that has ever happened to our country, he has saved so many lives, hes given hope and we can finally say we are proud to be Salvadoreans, we are literaly the safest country in the entire american continent and its a FACT
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I was born in El Salvador but fortunately my parents brought me to the US before the gang issues intensified. My mom has many aunts and nieces in El Salvador and my grandmother spends 2-3 months of the year in her hometown of San Vicente, El Salvador.
MULTIPLE times my family in ES were robbed, beaten and taxed by the controlling gangs. My grandmother would have to call and ask the gang leaders to allow her to enter the neighborhood safely (after paying yet another tax) whenever she landed in El Salvador.
President Bukele’s measures may be drastic but they were needed. He entered office and not only liberated the country from the terrorist gangs, he’s going after the corrupt politicians that made those “agreements” with them. He’s going after politicians who have a 30,000 salary but somehow because multimillionaires in office. He’s going after the parties that stole 265 million dollars in 20 years of power. He’s represents the people, he represents change and development in the country. Emigration levels are at an ALL TIME LOW for El Salvador. Citizens and children have access to healthcare & education that they’ve never had under and president in the history of the republic. The man is a blessing to a country that desperately needed one
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The images of the gang members in prison clothing forced to destroy the gang monuments of their graveyards did it for me. The man delivered the strong message: no freedom, no honor, no memory for the gangs.
I hope this can be maintained.
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I'm form El Salvador too, and I'm really impressed at how fairly you spoke about Bukele. It's hard to find anything that doesn't depict him as a saint or a demon. This video made me even tear up a little because of how much our country has gained in safety, but also how much it cost in terms of democracy and wrongful imprisonments. Thankfully no one close to me has been taken but I know people who have relatives they haven't heard of in months. It's horrible, but the improvement in safety is undeniable. I myself have a hard time supporting Bukele due to his blatant disregard of the law, but at the same time I wouldn't want to go back to the way it was before.
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Let me clarify two things. Gangs had a 18 or MS tattoo that only they could have, as if you had it, and you were seen with it by the other gang, your life would be a risk, not to say that if by accident you were in a town from the other gang you would be 100% dead. I remember having a shirt with a 18 number in the middle (nothing related to gangs, it was just the name of the commerce) and I was advised to get ride of it as I could get in troubles.
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I’ve been going to El Salvador all my life to visit my parent’s family and my husband’s family and for vacations. I just came back this weekend and I can say this was the first time ever in 48 years where I have gone and never once in these past 2 weeks was I scared for my or my family’s safety. Great feeling! Go El Salvador 🇸🇻!
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I hope it ends well. I can totally understand that people would vote for anyone that let them not be murdered in the streets.
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As a Singaporean, yes, sometimes a single "benevolent" leader who's willing to play hard ball and clean up the country will appear, and democratic checks and balances will hold this person back.
Unfortunately such "benevolent" leaders are once in a generation. It's unlikely the successors will be as good as he was. Lee Kwan Yew was a product of his time. Modern Singapore has been incredibly peaceful and made the small ruling elite filthy rich, hardly the ideal environment to produce a leader of LKY's calibre.
Make sure to close up those legal loopholes and reintroduce the checks and balances after use.
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Im 16 years old I was born and Raised in El salvador till 2014, i experienced shoot outs since i was a baby, i lost my uncle to gang violence, i lost my friends who were also kids no older than 10 due to shoot outs, i lost family i lost neighbors, we were forced to flee the country by these gang members or we were gonna die. I was no older than 8… seeing how my country has changed brings sm tears of happiness. I do hate seeing how
some people get to visit but im stuck in another country since i am still undocumented. Even tho my country was dangerous, it was beautiful. and i miss it everyday. and i miss my family i havent seen them in almost a decade . hopefully one day i’ll be able to experience the peace my president has achieved🇸🇻🫶🏻💓😊
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He is not a dictator. He is an excellent administrator.
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@Throwaway-kg7ft
11 months ago
I'm salvadoran so I will leave my two cents here. I experienced my first shoot out when I was 5 years old. I have lost people to gang violence, both family and classmates. A big chunk of my family and childhood friends had to leave the country. My generation grew up surrounded by an obscene amount of violence. Everyday you would read in the newspapers that 15-30 people were murdered by gangs in a country that's the size of Delaware. However, since Bukele took office: My family's small business has stopped paying protection money, the gangmembers who collected it have all been sent to jail or shot down by cops. Also, most family members have come back and are trying to make a living with the newfound peace we are enjoying. It's not much, but at least it's BETTER than the hell we were living in before. I'm not here to convince anyone about anything. Just wanted to state facts that I, as a salvadoran citizen, have experienced. Take it as you will.
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