Compact Mag publishes some silly or counterproductive stuff. It also publishes some hugely valuable REALISTIC coverage of important things and places. This article on Bukele has a silly-sounding headline but turns out to be a REALISTIC history of a long-suffering nation that our media ignore.
The history reveals why our media ignore it. El Salvador was destroyed by our Color Revolutions and proxy wars.
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For the next decade, it became a central arena of US-Soviet proxy conflict in the Western hemisphere and one of the bloodiest charnel houses of the final years of the Cold War. Despite copious American aid to the ruthless Salvadoran military, the ragtag left-wing insurgency held out until 1992, by which time its Soviet patron was disintegrating.
Peace accords followed, turning insurgents and counterinsurgents into politicians overnight. The Nationalist Republican Alliance and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front became the two main parties alternating in power in a nominally liberal-democratic system. This was El Salvador’s End of History, in which the violent ideological antagonisms of the 20th century were supposed to give way to peace and prosperity under the benign imperium of the World Trade Organization. But the brutality of the earlier era reasserted itself in the post-ideological form of teenage gang members deported from the United States. These lost children of the civil war proceeded to subject their country to a bloodletting that was even more staggering and senseless than the one their parents had fled—and that successive governments were unable to stop.
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In one paragraph the author explains why we encourage “asylum seekers”. We do it to create crime here. We then deport the criminals to create crime in their home country. It’s a classic Deepstate manufacturing process. Bring in toxic raw materials, process into reagent-quality poison, sell the poison back to the farmers.
Bukele has done a lot of stupid things like Bitcoin, but he remains hugely popular for reasons that seem mysterious. Again the author explains tersely:
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The real centerpiece of Bukele’s national rebranding has been ending this de facto rule by criminals. Just under two years ago, when a spate of killings ended a truce between the gangs, he responded by declaring a 30-day state of exception. This suspension of constitutional rights enabled the police and military to round up tens of thousands of suspected gang members. Today, the state of exception still remains in force, and something close to 2 percent of the population is behind bars. But there is more than image-making at work: The murder rate has declined below Canadian levels, making Bukele’s security policies an object of emulation for leaders across the region.
For most ordinary Salvadorans, the p.r. isn’t necessary, since the results speak for themselves. Before the state of exception, the gangs were everywhere, extorting, terrorizing, harassing, and killing; now they are not. Amid the new freedom from fear, aspirations have become possible that were not before.
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Normal people want SECURITY, not “freedom” or “rights”.
When crime is controlled, normal people have REAL FREEDOM TO LIVE A NORMAL LIFE.
Our endless evil nonsense about “rights” and “democracy” has made this basic understanding impossible and unthinkable. Both of our “sides” argue about utterly trivial crap like “voting” and “laws”. Both of our “sides” agree violently that infinite invasion shall be eternal and no criminal shall ever be punished. NEVER AGAIN!
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