I read this all the way through and want to thank the author for his hard work and insights. I learned a lot and am grateful for the lesson. And the photos! Great stuff.
I've been very interested Bukele's project. The problem of gangs, or what people often refer to as delinquecia seems overwhelming. I don't know if I would have the strength to put up with the international push back, but without la mano dura how does one deal with a country overrun with crime. It seems the first job of a country is to keep its citizens safe. The mythology of the US West suggests theives and murderers were swiftly dispatched to the next life.
No one has the stomach for that now. I really don't know what is best, but Bukele is an example of one pole on the continuum.
Interesting that the CPAC types who bag on George Soros have no problem with a foreign billionaire stringpuller directly managing the government of the United States. Maybe because Elon Musk is an apartheid-legacy South African and not a Jewish globalist.
Cool article. I get the impression that Bukele did good work taking the gangs down, but it's getting time to relax a bit on the iron fist. There are only so many criminals to arrest.
Trump going crazy with tariffs would make it difficult, but I like the idea of near-shoring as a route to economic prosperity. The US doesn't want China to make all its steel for national security reasons, but also has better jobs for its own people to do than steel mill jobs which don't pay *that* much and end up very tough on worker's bodies. The same applies to a bunch of other industrial processes. El Salvador, for whom any increased industry would probably be a plus, should try to get some American businesses and engineers to help set up such factories with its cheap labour. Then once they industrialize on the basics, they might be able to move to producing more complex products.
From the ground removed by 2 flights, I will say that it won't work long term or even medium term unless this is just a little funding acquisition marketing round.
Dude is trying to be a liberal in a situation where it will never work. He needs to fake it while being a communist (or atleast a state capitalist), like the other states there you haven't heard of or thought about that have been quietly trucking along for the last 100 years.
You need to have state capacity to build stuff up and provide the bread and the stick, and you need to look liberal enough that when a con gets elected in the US they don't kill you.
The place I'm from has been in that racket for at least 80 years, and everything is progressing nicely. An avowedly liberal, capitalist free market cultist state where everyone has a state pension and a state parcella.
I read this all the way through and want to thank the author for his hard work and insights. I learned a lot and am grateful for the lesson. And the photos! Great stuff.
I've been very interested Bukele's project. The problem of gangs, or what people often refer to as delinquecia seems overwhelming. I don't know if I would have the strength to put up with the international push back, but without la mano dura how does one deal with a country overrun with crime. It seems the first job of a country is to keep its citizens safe. The mythology of the US West suggests theives and murderers were swiftly dispatched to the next life.
No one has the stomach for that now. I really don't know what is best, but Bukele is an example of one pole on the continuum.
Interesting that the CPAC types who bag on George Soros have no problem with a foreign billionaire stringpuller directly managing the government of the United States. Maybe because Elon Musk is an apartheid-legacy South African and not a Jewish globalist.
Is the intro a Blood Meridian reference?
Cool article. I get the impression that Bukele did good work taking the gangs down, but it's getting time to relax a bit on the iron fist. There are only so many criminals to arrest.
Trump going crazy with tariffs would make it difficult, but I like the idea of near-shoring as a route to economic prosperity. The US doesn't want China to make all its steel for national security reasons, but also has better jobs for its own people to do than steel mill jobs which don't pay *that* much and end up very tough on worker's bodies. The same applies to a bunch of other industrial processes. El Salvador, for whom any increased industry would probably be a plus, should try to get some American businesses and engineers to help set up such factories with its cheap labour. Then once they industrialize on the basics, they might be able to move to producing more complex products.
From the ground removed by 2 flights, I will say that it won't work long term or even medium term unless this is just a little funding acquisition marketing round.
Dude is trying to be a liberal in a situation where it will never work. He needs to fake it while being a communist (or atleast a state capitalist), like the other states there you haven't heard of or thought about that have been quietly trucking along for the last 100 years.
You need to have state capacity to build stuff up and provide the bread and the stick, and you need to look liberal enough that when a con gets elected in the US they don't kill you.
The place I'm from has been in that racket for at least 80 years, and everything is progressing nicely. An avowedly liberal, capitalist free market cultist state where everyone has a state pension and a state parcella.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/bukeles-rebuke