It's just awful. Imagine a government that puts gangsters in jail so businesses can operate safely and free from extortion and so citizens can walk their streets freely. How dare they!
@@unclecreepy834391 indictments, multiple bankruptcies, guilty of sexual assault, guilty of lying (by a lot) on his land valuations and taxes, declining mental state, promising lots of revenge when he gets elected, his wife is hiding from him, literally DOZENS of the very best people he hired were fired or quit and none of them have anything good to say about him.
Not human rights, this are all criminal rights left organizations. The left is always on criminals side, they always defend all sorts of depravity and wrong doing.
I think the problem is they apply Blackstone's formulation, "It's better that 10 guilty men go free than a single innocent be punished." And maybe that was all well and good in England in 1760 when it was penned. But in the modern era, with the damage these guilty men are doing, we simply cannot afford for even 10 of them to get free.
lets be realistic, many of those human rights movements are funded by suspicious companies and "anonymous benefactors". The cartels are murdering entire families, they don't deserve the benefit of human rights and "fair trials" represented by lawyers bought with drug money.
Both my parents are from El Salvador and escaped during the civil war. The fact that they can finally see that El Salvador is becoming safer, they are happy to be able to go back without fear. They still have tears remembering the chaos and mayhem they lived in.
I lot of us lived that life.. we felt in 1989.. and I'm parent are so happy to see El Salvador prosper.. I wish this would have been sooner we lost a lot of my family.. cousin and aunts and uncle are not here to see to the change.. my cousin didn't pay and was gun down..
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It isn't better. Locals made your criminals . Citizens of elsalvador are the issue. That country will never find peace, they are lost tribes raped by the Spanish. Their original culture language and lineage of life has been stripped. Its nothing more then a memory now of what was. The criminals may be locked up now. Anyway they can overthrow anyway massgraves will be forming again, anyway new gangs new leaders new psychopaths will violate people and cause crime. Officials will be corrupt. These are issues with the people themselves. Elsalvador needs to rewrite its story for its future. Not bury more of its history to keep having the same future. Fixing the problem means changing. The people must change. The culture must change. It takes generations of families working together to make a good world.
I grew up in Los Angeles so I have never been to El Salvador growing up, but the information that was given to me not only by my parents but also other family members is rough to hear. As well as seeing them holding back tears to let us know, it is hard to imagine my family going through that.
WHY DO YOU THINK HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES ARE USUALLY LOUDEST IN SUPPORT OF CRIMINALS? Think it really through, Could it be that its exactly because that is where your Human rights matter most? That is just logic. Also Who is to decided that you are not a criminal tomorrow or next week? When you don't have rights, Anyone with a tiny amount of power could just say that you are a criminal. And that would be it. You go to jail for the rest of your life. With no way of escaping or being let out ever again.
How many innocent (actually innocent) people do you think got arrested because of it? Because ridding the streets of gangs is amazing (it truly is) but the way it's been done there makes it almost certain that some innocent people got wrongly accused and imprisoned with the actual gang members.
Wish this could work in the US but it isn’t possible since US resources that comes from Mexico and the cartel and they can’t take down the cartel cause it can harm the environment around areas of Mexico and also harm there trades. So it’s a lose, lose situation but to stop gang violence here they might have to pull off the same thing El Salvador is doing.
@MrThejboe3oh5 NO one is saying that but there is a difference between ha ing a rose on your top left arm like my friend has. Or having obvious tatoos with your gang name on them
im sure that some people were arressted and imprisoned who were innocent.... but you know what? From an individual perspective thats horrific, but from a societal perspective i think its perfectly acceptable considering the results.
@@islandwills2778 That's a terrible mindset because you'd be the first to change your tune if it happened to you or someone else you loved. That type of thinking opens up the dark ideas of humanity.
I think the president of this country is strong and intellectual, turning rat hole into a livable place. Yes, I said it. RAT HOLE. What about Mexico? Still dumb.
The only kind of school teacher that exists, sadly teaching academia is a closed club that only allows weakminded socialists to graduate. Similar to jounalist schools, you cant graduate unless you "agree" with the official consensus.
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There's a reason why the people massively supported him. For the first time in a long time, law abiding citizens could walk down the street safely. Well done.
Amazing how being tough on crime works, huh? Just watch the neighborhoods in Hartford, CT where the people are patrolling to keep their neighborhoods safe...crime has dropped significantly. Moreover, the people who live there are supportive of the patrols because they work!
There's nothing wrong with contract operated prisons as long as there's strict regulation and oversight. But that's the problem... Most governments that decide to move to private prisons don't want to monitor the conditions and operations as closely as is necessary. They just see a means of saving cash and having the budget look awesome.
@ch-yq5yn Tights are made up shit and no one is entitled to any. Especially not rapsists and sadistic murderers. I can tell you've never been affected by gang violence.
@chadherron2270 You have I backwards. El Salvador gang problem actually started from the US deporting gang members in the USA that had organize themselves into gangs while here without warning El Salvador of the dangerous criminals they were sending there.
The guy who helped me install my irrigation system bought a lemon farm down there and moved his family back. He said, "Bukele made my country safe and prosperous again. I'm moving back to raise my family."
@@LayzeeGiant many times people are forced into cooperating with or joining gangs...when civil society has collapsed, choices are you are either with the gangs or against..
THIS is how you take care of deadly gangs. Stop treating them with soft hands because that never works. Nayib Bukele understands this and he used a very hard hand and now El Salvador is a lot safer for non-criminals.
Yes, but authoritarian methods will have casualties. There is a good chance that most of them are criminals, but since their is no process of defence or intervention, there will also be innocent people being arrested.
@@gsuekbdhsidbdhd Innocent of what? Do you think that police arrest random people with no criminal background and who don't already associate with known gangsters? Even if they have not yet personally killed, raped, tortured or extorted anyone, they have bought into the lifestyle and aspire to it
The country is under martial law with no opposition partys or judicial system that has not been chased out of the country. Martial Law & extra judicial , death squads plus military sweeps is not a hard hand it reeks of a police state. enjoy your fantasy safety because nobody is safe under a police state backed by the countrys oligarchy.
So what do they want milk and cookies before bed a bedtime story hot chocolate every night ..... Fuck em give them one meal a day and those prison bed can go to homeless shelter they don't deserve them
@@rednecksonwas Mahatma Gandhi a warmonger? Especially when the British tried to attack his followers, and he told them to take it and not fight back? Was Martin Luther King a warmonger? I guess not everyone who wins the Nobel Peace prize is a warmonger huh? You are so ill-informed it's not even worth it to say that you're wrong... Because of how wrong you are
It kind of reminds me of saddam Hussein. When he was in power there was no terroism in Iraq. The. When he was removed isis popped up and took over. I don’t like Saddam but these brutal people need brutal consequences.
How do you think it would translate? You can't identify ppl in those cities as criminals based on tattoos. And the USA is a country where the rich are extorting normal ppl more than anyone else.
El Salvador is a tiny country compared to the United States. The number of Salvadoran criminals would only fill 1 American prison, not to mention that they fled America because they couldn't even take over Los Angeles
@@luislongoria6621they literally got deported because of how much harm they were causing in LA lol, you greengos are weird, so naive and clueless yet do confident when opening your mouths
GOD SAID IS NOT BY THE SWORD OR BY AN ARMY;BUT MY SPIRIT SAID THE LORD.WE HAVE BEING PRAYING FOR THIS COUNTRY TO GET RID OF THE SATANIST GANG MEMBERS,NOW WE HAVE TO GET RID OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS.WE CAN NOT PUT OUR FAITH IN BUKELE ONLY BECAUSE HE IS JUST A MAN.WE HOPE HE DOESN'T GET CORRUPTED GOD SAID COURSE IS THE MAN THAT PUT HIS FAITH IN ANOTHER MAN
@@hellatzejust like here in Philippines, when our former president Duterte crack illegal drug business, well the whole country became safe. But there are still few who criticize him.
My son’s wife and family are from El Salvador. I asked my daughter in laws mom, (my age 60) if she still visits family back in El Salvador. And if she likes what the new President has done. She said the streets are safer now and families can now walk the streets, visit parks, and conduct business without fear of these gangs. Therefore she is happy with the president’s policies.
As someone from Asia, where anything about Latin America is associated with drug cartels, videos on gore sites, gang violence and the like, it is very nice to see a country slowly erase such stereotypes
@@jphalsberghe1Agreed. I only call it stereotype because surely there is more than just violent crimes and cartel members going ham on gore site posting their killings in Latin America, but as you said: whatever nice things there is blotted out by these daily realities. As controversial as El Salvador's steps are in curbing crime, I hope the reduction of crime rate is not just a passing smoke, temporary and brief
I lived almost a year in Honduras, including 4 months in the territories of both gangs. The bulk of the poor people cannot but undergo their daily and nightly terror. Many have tried to reduce or eradicate the gangs, no one succeeded. Mr Bukele (and against my assessment) completely delivered his mission impossible. True, he dissed some ''democratic principles'', but none the liberated people will protest, except those profiting from crime and western far away and salon virtue signaling ''wokists''..🙌@@FBread-xj8qk
In Latin America a lot of Asian countries have the stereotypes of self-deleting. S. Korea self-deleting rate is only a couple of percentages below Mexicos homicide rate. And depending on the year sometimes it’s higher.
Human rights organizations are not about human rights anymore if you haven’t noticed. They don’t care about law and order and are prefer an environment of chaos. Good job president !!!
I guarantee you there are now some innocent people serving life sentences among dangerous criminals because of this guy’s policies. Yeah, there was a reduction in crime but this sets an incredibly bad precedent.
@@brandonsheets1883And how many innocent people on the outside are alive that would otherwise be dead? The alternative of turning the country around in a traditional way could take 2 or 3 generations, or longer.
it works because El Salvador is a small country compared to the US, there's hundreds of videos out there of US gang members doing heinous things even in prison, search up TD bingham.
@@chrisli3251 That's a wrong way to look at it. What he did was a big deal because the previous presidents didn't achieve the success at cracking down the gangs previously. So to turn the tide is no small feat.
There are alot of wrongly imprisoned people locked up for petty crime, they are preyed upon by the harder serious criminals.. the human rights are mainly there for those light prisoners and to stop the corruption & abuse by corruption guards... not everyone behind bars is guilty or hard-core gang members
Wouldn’t it be nice to send the human rights activist complaining about this for a stay at the prison for a couple weeks followed by an immersion into a culture that still plagued by the criminal activity. Maybe then, they would learn some fucking empathy if they survived the environment
The country is supposed to belong to its citizens and not to its criminals. People will think twice before acting in order to avoid trouble, watch and report any unusual or suspicious event or individuals. It works perfectly well in China, or PRK. It was the way of living in the communist Block till Gorbatschow screwed it big time.
@@razman4240they are. The cell mates are on rotation and are constantly shuffled like a deck of cards so there's no chance of unity and coordination for at least another decade.
The real winner is the majority of prisoners have not had a hearing or charges because that would require a judicial system. Prisoners have no right to lawyer or hearing. The beauty of ' Martial Law' & police state is real winner every time.
US criticising Bukele just shows how sinister they really are. Behind the scenes, one can only imagine what the government is up to. Perhaps they are secretly funding these terrorists groups and trying to act like the hero.
they just lock up everybody.... we all know this is a lie... look into it ya'll.... also the president works with the gangs and they still run the show.... yankees are so naive
The problem with Mexico is money. Mexican gangs are loaded, and they share their money with people in power. When a local Mexican police chief makes $15000 but the cartels pay him $35000 to look the other way, the lines between the good guys and the bad guys become blurred. In El Salvador all the bad guys did was steal from the locals, they didn't have a massive influx of cash from the drug trade. (Plus gang members tattooed their faces.)
you assume they all did that. Gang members do that for sure but not every single one does. Some have no choice but to join they have no family or options. A lot are forced into that life they see it as a civil war
@@tonylvezIf you are part of a gang that kills, murders, rapes,etc. You have to be aware of the consequences of the whole group. There is no sugar coating here
You mean the ones you think you elected in? Because they are the biggest criminals. I bet your President is as dirty as anyone else. Just like the US President. Just like the President of any and all nations. Crooks.
They care about the innocent people who haven't had a trial before being imprisoned. Are *you* willing to be wrongly imprisoned for these policies to be carried out?
@@kyleolcott1769 To these people all they can see is it happening to those they don't like and therefore can't see the downsides. I would not cheer this on so willingly if I were any of them, rather be cautious about it
"Bukele showed his dark side"... WHAT? Did the man forget about what he had just read about 87 people being massacred? He did what he had to do, period. Dude has balls
You have to remember that human rights for all of the country's citizens was thrown out the window as it became a surveilance state. The gang situation likely got so bad that it was worth it. But you have to acknowledge that that is a true cost and is generally not a good thing. Anyone with an adult brain has to acknowledge that there is both good and bad here.
@@ck9292 how did you handle the gangs? explain to us!!! look, you can't expect results on the old methods, because people is more easy killed than arrested, and gangs kill alote of people very quickly when they are press. there is no other method.
@@ck9292People would rather not be afraid of gangs anymore than never sacrifice their rights. This is how states operate. Hard decisions have to be made and done without hesitation, otherwise you can only live in uncertainty and fear. He literally just doesn’t want to play around with these people.
He forgot to mention that the violence stopped mostly because every time there was a killing of an innocent person, 40k inmates didn't eat food for 3 days. And even if it wasn't gang related, the gang members put a stop to it, so their people don't starve in prison. This method can work in any country. What's any type of violence.
@@adriansmith6993 They've got a lot of tats. I'm sure there is some way to turn that into art. Seriously though, farming by hand, ditch digging and earth moving with shovels only?
Im Mexican and I’m happy for El Salvador and it’s people. My friend who is Salvadoreña told me that she can finally visit her family in El Salvador for the first time.
Yeah at the same time anyone with a tattoo "looks like a criminal so is a criminal" based on their new system for arrests. So now innocent people are going to be beaten or killed in these prisons just because they had a tattoo.
I came in the Philippines in 2017. In that year, 50.000 people died of drugs/-crime. After Duterte became president, only 4000 people died. Half of them shot by the police. People felt safe again. Same in El Salvador. You probably live in a safe country? What a luxury. Pinochet and esp. Himmler are of a totally different category. But for you in your luxurious safety, everything is the same.@@lawsonj39
@Aiden-eu3wm yes, some of them didn't know better. Have you even watched the video? You can counter brutality with brutality, but only to a specific point. After that you have to have a long term solution. Like reeducation, rehabilitation, social support. The idea behind a good punitive system is not to lock a bad person for good, but to return him to society as a changed man. And the real deal with the Salvadorian measures is that at least a portion of the arrested are innocent, who are not getting the chance to defend themselves in front of a judge. Please eatch the video again, and explore the subject a bit more
@@ABlizzardIsClose most of them are. Imagine you are 15 or 16 and all you see around are youngs like yourself joining a gang. Now imagine you have nothing to do around because your government doesn't invest a dime in your future. Now imagine, joining a gang is "cool" and be outside a gang is simply dangerous. Now what would you do as a teenager?
That’s just the thing. If you remove the most basic constitutional protections like freedom of speech, press, privacy, and fundamental due process, it doesn’t just apply to criminals. History is quite liter littered with these moves, and there’s always folks saying “they aren’t me, so what do I care?” Until it is you or someone you love. Until a cop arrests you because he’s having a bad day, and you realize no arrest warrants means police don’t need any justification to arrest you. The same people in America supporting this regime, threw tantrums for 2 years over mask mandates, claiming their rights were violated. But aren’t concerned with (1) a government reading your texts with your wife without any reason to suspect wrongdoing; (2) a government criminalizing journalists publishing stories that would simply upset people (so, any story about government abuse or corruption or misconduct, or any story holding public officials accountable for say, committing crimes of their own?); (3) not having a right to defense counsel when they’re arrested for genuinely nothing at all….
He didn't want to waste money on jails instead of using it for the hospital he built and schools. But the pieces of shit kept pushing him and he had to waste money on building the mega prison. At least he's going to make the prisoners make school furniture and in some cases he even uses prisoners to help rebuild schools...
@@fluffy1931 Of COURSE it is a police state, but, I wonder how many HOURS you would have lasted in old El Salvador. Only you would never have visited it. Just like you will never visit Afghanistan; it is NOT safe there. Now you can visit El Salvador, it is safe.
Many of these men are held, committing no known crime and allowing zero contact with their lawyer. You should be able to understand how that kind of policy can be incredibly abusive. Let's say only 1% of these inmates are innocent. There have been just over 79K people arrested on gang related accusations. That means 790 innocent people are being held with no hope of due process. You should be able to acknowledge the good but also see the bad in these policies. If you're willing to trade public freedom for safety just say so.
I just hope El Salvador realizes what they have is sooo rare, the real battle is yet to come, if they want this to last they'll need build a strong sense of pride for there nation and families within their communities, law enforcement, and military... leave no room for criminals and corruption!
I've lived in El Salvador for many months at a time on three separate ocassions, as my wife is Salvadoran. When I say the crime was on a scale much worse than anything in the US, it's not possible to understand it unless you've been in a war zone, perhaps, or in some lawless African country. I lived there for 5 months in 2012 and in EACH of those months, I attended a Wake (Vela) of someone in my wife's family or friends who were murdered by the gangs, including her 17 year old nephew who was helping me shop for cheese in the Mercado the day prior. It's just mind boggling the level of extorsion, rape/assault, and robbery that existed. As a white guy, i stood out like a sore thumb and constantly had my head on a swivel. So, to look at what Bukele is doing NOW and seeing the success it is having is really incredible. The people there have suffered for so long with the war in the 80's and early 90's and then again with the gang problem, so if some toes are stepped on in the process, so be it. We have the luxury in the US and the West to point fingers at a smaller countries policies and nit pick and say they aren't "democratic" enough. In extra-ordinary situations like this, maybe level 10 Abraham Lincoln Constitutional policies just don't work, and so be it. They will work out there own problems, and in the meantime, street vendors aren't getting murdered for not paying their weekly 40% allotment to MS13.
My wife now is from El Salvador. Lived there during the worst of it in the mid 2000s. I couldn't believe the stories she told me. When I first heard about Bukele i was skeptical. Worried it was just another dictator. After hearing what her and her family went through it totally changed my opinion on things. He is a hero to the Salvadoran people. She plans on going back for the first time in 10 years next year. It's great to see the people live the lives they deserve.
I am surprised to find a RUclips channel that is so well-informed about El Salvador's history, covering the civil war and gang wars succinctly. As part of a CEAT unit, I personally fought against MS-13 and 18. However, the government's corruption hindered effective eradication efforts. Then President Nayid emerged and cleaned up the entire country. I Departed for Iraq and Afghanistan, I never imagined my homeland would be rescued by someone like him. We need more leaders of his caliber. I'm proud of what he has achieved. Now, I can return home without fearing for my life. Despite spending over 9 years in Texas and identifying as a Texan, my heart remains in El Salvador. I've shed blood for both my countries. Although I had lost faith in mankind, I find solace in the freedom to work hard in the United States. Previously, in El Salvador, hard work often meant funding gangs, a notion I now dismiss.
Wow sir, youve been through quite a bit. I do not blame you for losing faith in mankind. However perhaps faith in Jesus Christ could heal some of the wounds youve suffered in your heart. I don't know why but God wanted me to say this to you. I mean no disrespect to you whatsoever I only follow my heart when the Holy Spirit ushers it. May you and your family be blessed all the days of your lives.
Failure to remember Mercy when it is needed is to invite barbarism into ones soul, these men will eventually be leaving prison, and it is up to how you treat them that will determine if they go back or if they rejoin society
Bukkele's success and popularity, both inside his country and on the world stage, are a result of the fact that he operates consistently under one simple principle: COMMON SENSE
I like Bukele, but he's paving a road that may turn out badly for the country. While I think Bukele is doing what he thinks is best for his country, he has consolidated the government and has full dictatorial power of the country (he controls the senate, house, and Supreme Court due expanding the bench) and if the wrong person ever comes into power, it's going to be a disaster.
Salvadorans: "Yay! The streets aren't full of dead bodies and we're not afraid to go out!" Human rights guys: "Yeah, but all those murderers are no longer enjoying their lives."
I think the policy governments need to take is that once a gang has enacted a certain level of violence and crime the gang itself needs to be labeled as something equivalent to terrorists and treated as such. The no negotiations with terrorists policy and stripping them of legal rights is what defeats violent military scale groups from communities which is why a similar method worked in El Salvador.
A lot of us are children of war we are not gone our reform comes from eliminating the rappest in our garden and yours it's not black and white politicly it was smarter to let the president make a blow with us we have mothers and daughters we do not kill woman or children not all of this is true The Blue Prince of Darkness EME ESE Coronado's lil cycos
@@billyyank5807Prisoners in the US should be treated the same as those in El Salvador. This way, they'll think twice before committing another crime when they are paroled.
Viva El Salvador, your people have suffered long enough it is time did you get to live life free of this terror that has held power for many decades. I'm Mexican American and I pray for your people and your country that it continue to bloom and grow to its Max potential and I pray Mexico has a transformation such as yours.
I know a LOT of El Salvadoran's, and every single one, from across the U.S. political spectrum, are heavily supportive of the anti-gang initiative in their home country.
He was reelected in a landslide gathering some 83 % of the vote. Smartly, he didn’t allow the fascist BBC to video the inside of the CECOT prison until AFTER he was reelected in 2024. Q: Who are the 250k+ who voted against him? Liberals I assume.
@@benargee nah that's bullshit. got nothing to do with gangs, since you don't just fall into organised crime and extreme violence from some bad influence. poverty is only a reasonable explanation when conditions are unliveable, such as going hungry. but someone stealing because of that is still absolutely nothing like organised crime.
If the country had 70.000 gang members ( numbers confirmed by international community) and he arrested 70.000 - then it seems quiet spot on for me!! Well done Bukele, the world needs more politicians of his caliber!!!
@chinesecovidanalswabs4752 yep. That's exactly it. Even people with tattoos won't leave their house. Maybe for good reason. I'm not sure how popular non gang tattoos are in El Salvador
My son and his best friend are on vacation in EL Salvador this week. It's a beautiful country, he sends me pictures. I also have a co worker who is from El Salvador. He recently went back to visit family. He spoke how safe it is now and it's a great feeling. We're from canada.
@@CaptainHinesightall of the delusional “human rights activists” say that. they care about how the criminals suffer, not about how the population sufferED. if only they gave as much shits about the gp as they did about the gang members. they may think that “many are forced into gang life”. That may be true, but each person knows the consequences of gang life before they join, and they chose to do so.
Rehabilitation is the point. Not just punishment. If you put too much emphasis on punishment, rehabilitation becomes impossible. Everyone deserves a chance at rehabilitation. Everyone can be rehabilitated. Is everyone worth it? No, i dont think so, but most are. Crime is almost always a symptom of poverty and lack of opportunity. Criminals are usually people that have failed society because society failed them first
I just visited El Salvador for 9 days and felt completely safe. The people are so friendly and welcoming. They were patient with my broken Spanish lol. The country itself has beautiful views and I encourage anyone to visit the Surf City area. El Tunco is full of friendly travelers from all over the world. El Salvador is home to some of the best surfing in the Americas as well. I’m grateful I was able to experience such a beautiful place that I wouldn’t have been able to visit just a few years ago.
@@framusburns-hagstromiii808El Salvador’s population is 6.5 million…the United States population is about 330+ million and not to mention how massive the US is and the completely different infrastructure it has compared to a much smaller country in El Salvador.
@@redt7452 Yeah but let's look at money now. Without a doubt USA has way WAY more money than salvador and more militar resources than probably 90% of the world. If USA truly wanted, they could stop focusing in useless conflicts outsides and clean house.
No he’s being criticized for violating constitutional and potentially human rights. Machiavellian tactics are a slippery slope. He’s effectively turned El Salvador into a police state. While it has reduced crime, that is not a viable solution to the problem in the long term. Inevitably a police state comes under the control of corrupt individuals with agendas that can target marginalized groups or specific classes of people. What’s effectively stopping him from accusing the political opposition of being connected to gang members? He already made journalism practically illegal when it comes to reporting on crime. Do you see the problem here?
no, he was criticized for ignoring basic human rights and throwing 65,000 people into jail without any trial. If you watched the report anywhere between a third and a half of the inmates are innocent
I'd reckon a massive portion of them are innocent. Think of how corrupt police officers even in countries like the USA are and have been in the past, and that's despite having a 'fair' trial and assumption of innocence. Here, a officer could arrest anyone with no reason,and they would not have a trial.. this is crazy
how did they make sure they got the right people? how do we know they didnt grab somebody innocent? the video explained evidence was not needed, no lawyers. even with our justice system, the innocent get convicted. what if you accidently made a cop angry in el salvador and he "decides" you are a gang member. this could happen to you. be careful what you wish for.
Unfortunately it takes EXTREMISM to eradicate EXTREMISM. Hats off to Nayib Bukele. He probably saved thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of innocent lives.
@@victor75208 Until those in jail perish of old age! Only then, will they have had 2 generations of people with an absolute intolerance of, and freedom from organized crime! Subsequent administrations will need to continue the hardline, but as long as there are people such as yourself- an inevitable fact sadly, I doubt it will last long. You *_seem to_* care more for the criminals than their countless past and future victims.
@@marianrucareanu8802 In short, because she promotes individual egotism in a way that is ultimately both unnatural to the instincts of our species and would lead to even greater divides between rich and poor/powerful and helpless, and, if practiced across the board, would almost certainly lead to our planet becoming uninhabitable in record time. Ayn Rand is the darling of massive, international corporations and banks. Not of the common man.
I like that Bukele told those govts that complained about his tactics,"send over planes, I give them to you to take back to your country. How many you want? 5 thousand, 10 thousand?" He had no takers.
It's like German politicians complained to some African country about their shooting of wild elephants, such a rare species. They answered like "send ships, we can deliver you 20000 of them". Silence.
@@Just_A_Random_Desk they’re not, in the year this has happened the country has tried to keep it silent, but the country has imprisoned a lot of actually innocent people. Journalists, family of gang members, neighbors of gang members, victims that the gangs were extorting money from and basically anyone who remotely looks suspicious or has the slightest connection to affiliated gang members.
@@Just_A_Random_Desk journalist from out the country went in to El Salvador to film a documentary and actually caught the cops being shady. The cops heard rap music went to investigate the source and found a 15 year old kid sitting outside his house listening to rap. The searched him for tattoos, weapons, contraband and literally anything.
I had an El Salvadorian man visit my hotel. He's in the military. He said the goal is to control the gangs within the country, and then have all the ones abroad extradited back to El Salvador to be dealt with.
@@imw2902Meh, what you need is a Pinochet. He would have 'final-solutioned' these gangs instead of housing them. This guy is barely the 'sugar-free/Great-Value Brand' of a Ceaser.
I am a Bukele fan! The US coddles their inmates... gratuitous family visits with the opportunity of contraband handoffs, dorm style cells, a warm bed, blankets, commisary, a nice ride to court, walks on the yard to get into cahoots and set up factions, and a varied menu. Bukele has made the jail to court trip seamless bc its right at the prison, no blanket no cushy mattress and pillow, no dorm style roommate situation, no varied menu, no commissary, no visits, and their rec time is at gunpoint. No BS. The MS did worse to their victims so they better love their new life. None of them are choir boys with their arrest warrants literally tatted on themselves from head to foot. Good job Bukele!
Those gangs made life hell in El Salvador. I have Salvadoran friends who immigrated here during the civil war that finally are able to go home and visit family without fear. It may seem tough, but what Bukele has done in fighting these gangs has been a Godsend to the Salvadoran people. Screw the critics. The martyred St. Oscar Romero would undoubtedly approve of the change.
Doesn’t stop over 100 killed by guns everyday though, homelessness rising to above 600,000 and crime shooting up with no end in sight, this is freedom and democracy, for who?
what does that mean though? life in prison for gang affiliation? doesnt matter the crime commited? whether its some kid that gets dragged along or a murderer? how do you define this gang affiliation? is being seen with a group of gang members enough?
@@Wulfryk A capital crime deserves capital punishment. Accessories to capital crimes have usually received the same sentences as the main perpetrators. Almost by definition, if you're hanging out with a gang, you're a gang member. And if you're covered with the tattooed signs of the gang, it's prima facie evidence you're a member. Stop looking for excuses.
It's just awful. Imagine a government that puts gangsters in jail so businesses can operate safely and free from extortion and so citizens can walk their streets freely. How dare they!
The sheer fecking audacity...
Yes this is like a movie tale. Hopefully they won't be out within 2 day like in US or pathetic, fantastically retarded Europe.
Now they're in your backyard because of the biden administration 😂
@@unclecreepy834391 indictments, multiple bankruptcies, guilty of sexual assault, guilty of lying (by a lot) on his land valuations and taxes, declining mental state, promising lots of revenge when he gets elected, his wife is hiding from him, literally DOZENS of the very best people he hired were fired or quit and none of them have anything good to say about him.
At the costs of legal rights, due process, warrants, evidence, and access to lawyers and legal defense.
Sounds Trumpian to me.
It is funny how human rights people always think about criminals and not the people who are being abused by these animals.
Not human rights, this are all criminal rights left organizations. The left is always on criminals side, they always defend all sorts of depravity and wrong doing.
Their dumb privilege people their cowards all they do is talk instead of taking action
Because they support indirectly criminals in many third world countries! Human rights organizations are also corrupt!!!
I think the problem is they apply Blackstone's formulation, "It's better that 10 guilty men go free than a single innocent be punished." And maybe that was all well and good in England in 1760 when it was penned. But in the modern era, with the damage these guilty men are doing, we simply cannot afford for even 10 of them to get free.
lets be realistic, many of those human rights movements are funded by suspicious companies and "anonymous benefactors". The cartels are murdering entire families, they don't deserve the benefit of human rights and "fair trials" represented by lawyers bought with drug money.
Both my parents are from El Salvador and escaped during the civil war. The fact that they can finally see that El Salvador is becoming safer, they are happy to be able to go back without fear. They still have tears remembering the chaos and mayhem they lived in.
👏👏👌
I lot of us lived that life.. we felt in 1989.. and I'm parent are so happy to see El Salvador prosper.. I wish this would have been sooner we lost a lot of my family.. cousin and aunts and uncle are not here to see to the change.. my cousin didn't pay and was gun down..
Beckybc89, I like El Salvador's cachiporras: From The Ilobasco Latin Band: Jimena Ziliezar💕💋, From Los Tiburones Music Band: Ashley, Vanessa Aguierre, and Alexandra Espinosa, and from Sotero Musc Band: the captain of the cachiporras and the second in command.
It isn't better. Locals made your criminals . Citizens of elsalvador are the issue. That country will never find peace, they are lost tribes raped by the Spanish. Their original culture language and lineage of life has been stripped. Its nothing more then a memory now of what was. The criminals may be locked up now. Anyway they can overthrow anyway massgraves will be forming again, anyway new gangs new leaders new psychopaths will violate people and cause crime. Officials will be corrupt. These are issues with the people themselves. Elsalvador needs to rewrite its story for its future. Not bury more of its history to keep having the same future. Fixing the problem means changing. The people must change. The culture must change. It takes generations of families working together to make a good world.
I grew up in Los Angeles so I have never been to El Salvador growing up, but the information that was given to me not only by my parents but also other family members is rough to hear. As well as seeing them holding back tears to let us know, it is hard to imagine my family going through that.
I think this Bukele guy is responsible for saving thousands of people’s lives .
Around 3k a year
I'll say around 20k lives saved in his first 5 years term.
I think this bartjohnny guy farts alot😂
Leave red spot@@zochiang
More than that.
Where are the Human Rights Groups when it comes to the rights of the victims of gang violence? Kudos to Bukele, keep up the great work!
They are writing those articles of criminals rights from Martha’s Vineyard.
Simple: there's no money in milking the woes of people outside of the Approved Pitied People list.
@@crapparcSo you think people campaign for human rights to make money? 🤣🤣🤣
@@lawsonj39So you think people are in it for something other than money or social credit? You naive little boy.
WHY DO YOU THINK HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES ARE USUALLY LOUDEST IN SUPPORT OF CRIMINALS?
Think it really through, Could it be that its exactly because that is where your Human rights matter most?
That is just logic.
Also Who is to decided that you are not a criminal tomorrow or next week?
When you don't have rights, Anyone with a tiny amount of power could just say that you are a criminal. And that would be it.
You go to jail for the rest of your life. With no way of escaping or being let out ever again.
Who would’ve guessed it, arresting criminals actually works.
Biden wouldn't know how that works.
@@kevincarter6001he doesnt know where he is most of the time
But, but: You gotta keep them.!
Tell that to the democrats wokers....
But you can’t arrest American police officers so easily bro use your head man come on
I am from El Salvador. All I can say is that you can live there now.
That’s right brother
I live in the US. Can we switch leaders? Lol
How many innocent (actually innocent) people do you think got arrested because of it? Because ridding the streets of gangs is amazing (it truly is) but the way it's been done there makes it almost certain that some innocent people got wrongly accused and imprisoned with the actual gang members.
@@nps1024cope
@@nps1024Too many, although what is it worth?
This man has won the hearts of his own people as well as the hearts of millions around the globe. No one else has ever achieved such victory.
Wish this could work in the US but it isn’t possible since US resources that comes from Mexico and the cartel and they can’t take down the cartel cause it can harm the environment around areas of Mexico and also harm there trades. So it’s a lose, lose situation but to stop gang violence here they might have to pull off the same thing El Salvador is doing.
I think it's quite thoughtful of the criminals to tattoo themselves to aid the authorities in identifying them.
Not everyone with tattoos is a gang member.
would-be gang members, some of them @@MrThejboe3oh5
@@MrThejboe3oh5promoting gang/queer culture
@MrThejboe3oh5 NO one is saying that but there is a difference between ha ing a rose on your top left arm like my friend has. Or having obvious tatoos with your gang name on them
@@MrThejboe3oh5 most of them actually do , because its their tradition and part of the initiation rite
The fact that crime has dropped by 90% shows the right people went to jail.
im sure that some people were arressted and imprisoned who were innocent.... but you know what? From an individual perspective thats horrific, but from a societal perspective i think its perfectly acceptable considering the results.
The ends don't necessarily justify the means
@@islandwills2778 That's a terrible mindset because you'd be the first to change your tune if it happened to you or someone else you loved. That type of thinking opens up the dark ideas of humanity.
I think the president of this country is strong and intellectual, turning rat hole into a livable place. Yes, I said it. RAT HOLE. What about Mexico? Still dumb.
Which doesn’t happen enough in the US.
Those "human rights" activists are similar to school teachers who ignore the bullying but punish the victim who fought back.
Exactly.
The only kind of school teacher that exists, sadly teaching academia is a closed club that only allows weakminded socialists to graduate.
Similar to jounalist schools, you cant graduate unless you "agree" with the official consensus.
You're right
totally right
Right
What Mr. Bukele has done is nothing short of a miracle. God bless El Salvador, it's people and it's president.
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Bukele is a Godly man - a believer. I pray he is safe and will bring God and prosperity to El Salvador.
Beautiful
Bless you too fam
Amen.
There's a reason why the people massively supported him. For the first time in a long time, law abiding citizens could walk down the street safely. Well done.
Give it time it will go back to where it was.
@@Harrison_Rs Anything's possible, but until then, citizens get a chance at normalcy. They might get addicted to it.
Unless he also addresses the social and geopolitical problems that created it, it will just come back.
@@Harrison_Rs ok debbie downer
Amazing how being tough on crime works, huh? Just watch the neighborhoods in Hartford, CT where the people are patrolling to keep their neighborhoods safe...crime has dropped significantly. Moreover, the people who live there are supportive of the patrols because they work!
Wow a country using a prison for criminals and not running a prison as a business. Thats amazing.
How amazing
That’s what liberals are really upset about
Maybe the US can use this policy-TOO. Naw,won't happen. LOL.
Too many p ticians would be hind b ars. Remember, they have stocks in the private ones.
There's nothing wrong with contract operated prisons as long as there's strict regulation and oversight.
But that's the problem... Most governments that decide to move to private prisons don't want to monitor the conditions and operations as closely as is necessary. They just see a means of saving cash and having the budget look awesome.
Criminal gangs do not care about YOUR human rights
@ch-yq5yn Is that your name or your gang number?
@ch-yq5yn Tights are made up shit and no one is entitled to any. Especially not rapsists and sadistic murderers. I can tell you've never been affected by gang violence.
@@jimandersen3003 :P
@ch-yq5yn act human to be treated like a human
Well... no, and rapists don't respect women... so we shouldn't respect women? I don't think you understand your argument.
Bukele has balls of steel. Mad respect. If only all leaders did this.
Bukele is a hero of the Salvadoran people
now they are here in america
@chadherron2270 You have I backwards. El Salvador gang problem actually started from the US deporting gang members in the USA that had organize themselves into gangs while here without warning El Salvador of the dangerous criminals they were sending there.
@@chadherron2270those gang started here in America and went back to El Salvador when we deported them
Dude that guy works with the other big gang in his country... Check your facts.
The guy who helped me install my irrigation system bought a lemon farm down there and moved his family back. He said, "Bukele made my country safe and prosperous again. I'm moving back to raise my family."
The people of El Salvador deserve freedom from the tyranny of gangs.
They can start by raising their kids right.
Yeah lets just hope Bukele doesn't turn into the next Stalin or Mao...it's sad when democracy fails..
@@LayzeeGiant many times people are forced into cooperating with or joining gangs...when civil society has collapsed, choices are you are either with the gangs or against..
Show me a country that does.@@LayzeeGiant
Look at what Democracy has created.@@ameyas7726
THIS is how you take care of deadly gangs.
Stop treating them with soft hands because that never works.
Nayib Bukele understands this and he used a very hard hand and now El Salvador is a lot safer for non-criminals.
They have no value to the world to keep on re-producing the same results on this planet
Yes, but authoritarian methods will have casualties. There is a good chance that most of them are criminals, but since their is no process of defence or intervention, there will also be innocent people being arrested.
After a few years they will vote for some socialist who will release them all.
@@gsuekbdhsidbdhd
Innocent of what? Do you think that police arrest random people with no criminal background and who don't already associate with known gangsters? Even if they have not yet personally killed, raped, tortured or extorted anyone, they have bought into the lifestyle and aspire to it
The country is under martial law with no opposition partys or judicial system that has not been chased out of the country. Martial Law & extra judicial , death squads plus military sweeps is not a hard hand it reeks of a police state. enjoy your fantasy safety because nobody is safe under a police state backed by the countrys oligarchy.
Every country needs to learn from this. You need to take drastic steps to keep the people safe. I give the president of EL Salvador my full support!
Imagine having a zero tolerance for violence. Crazy!
Yea just need to ignore certain rights hope the next administration doesnt abuse this
Disarming the lawful only serves to enable the criminal.
@@Joncenalol235Except it's the criminals who have all been put in prison lmao
@USERZ123XD Governments around the world have a monopoly on violence.
When USA criticize you, you KNOW you are doing the right thing! USA government is just another Cartel.
The media “If you treat the prisoners like that, they will become more violent when they get out!”
Bukkele “Who said anything about getting out?”
Lmaooooo 😂
So what do they want milk and cookies before bed a bedtime story hot chocolate every night ..... Fuck em give them one meal a day and those prison bed can go to homeless shelter they don't deserve them
😂😂😂
He‘s the man
Imagine having more empathy for literal cannibals and mass murderers than the common folk 💀💀💀
Bukele is a hero to all who detest gang violence and the murder of innocent people He should receive the Nobel Peace Prize in my opinion!!!!!!!
only warmongers get that prize
@@rednecksonwas Mahatma Gandhi a warmonger? Especially when the British tried to attack his followers, and he told them to take it and not fight back?
Was Martin Luther King a warmonger?
I guess not everyone who wins the Nobel Peace prize is a warmonger huh? You are so ill-informed it's not even worth it to say that you're wrong... Because of how wrong you are
@@rednecksonsad but true. After bombing sudan, obama surprisingly got the nobel peace. He is surprised himself 😂
cool story dude. keep up your meds.
@@fluffy1931 _"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent."_
I think he is the best. We need politicians like him in Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, LA, and any other city plagued by gangs and drugs.
In other words, all the Democrat-run cities.
It kind of reminds me of saddam Hussein. When he was in power there was no terroism in Iraq. The. When he was removed isis popped up and took over. I don’t like Saddam but these brutal people need brutal consequences.
How do you think it would translate? You can't identify ppl in those cities as criminals based on tattoos. And the USA is a country where the rich are extorting normal ppl more than anyone else.
Facts from Philadelphia
This is exactly how gangs should be handled everywhere and especially in the USA
Honestly, the biggest threats at the moment are the pewdoohfaylehz and all the groups affiliated with them.
El Salvador is a tiny country compared to the United States. The number of Salvadoran criminals would only fill 1 American prison, not to mention that they fled America because they couldn't even take over Los Angeles
As well as migrants
@@luislongoria6621they literally got deported because of how much harm they were causing in LA lol, you greengos are weird, so naive and clueless yet do confident when opening your mouths
@@TheSleepingonit Yes, but it's the group I mentioned that is letting them in by the hordes.
Biggest balls on planet earth award goes to Bukele!!
What better to think with? Balls or brains?
GOD SAID IS NOT BY THE SWORD OR BY AN ARMY;BUT MY SPIRIT SAID THE LORD.WE HAVE BEING PRAYING FOR THIS COUNTRY TO GET RID OF THE SATANIST GANG MEMBERS,NOW WE HAVE TO GET RID OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS.WE CAN NOT PUT OUR FAITH IN BUKELE ONLY BECAUSE HE IS JUST A MAN.WE HOPE HE DOESN'T GET CORRUPTED GOD SAID COURSE IS THE MAN THAT PUT HIS FAITH IN ANOTHER MAN
@@DannyvirkYou need both to accomplish anything of note
president for life !!
Nayib Bukele por vida! 🎉
A politician that kept its citizens safe? That’s rare!
what suprise me that some people criticize that politician.
smh.
@@hellatze i mean there are obvious flaws in his system, but i honestly believe the results and the history make it justifiable
@@hellatzejust like here in Philippines, when our former president Duterte crack illegal drug business, well the whole country became safe. But there are still few who criticize him.
My son’s wife and family are from El Salvador. I asked my daughter in laws mom, (my age 60) if she still visits family back in El Salvador. And if she likes what the new President has done. She said the streets are safer now and families can now walk the streets, visit parks, and conduct business without fear of these gangs. Therefore she is happy with the president’s policies.
As someone from Asia, where anything about Latin America is associated with drug cartels, videos on gore sites, gang violence and the like, it is very nice to see a country slowly erase such stereotypes
The truth is, they were no stereotypes, they ware daily realities
@@jphalsberghe1Agreed. I only call it stereotype because surely there is more than just violent crimes and cartel members going ham on gore site posting their killings in Latin America, but as you said: whatever nice things there is blotted out by these daily realities. As controversial as El Salvador's steps are in curbing crime, I hope the reduction of crime rate is not just a passing smoke, temporary and brief
I lived almost a year in Honduras, including 4 months in the territories of both gangs. The bulk of the poor people cannot but undergo their daily and nightly terror. Many have tried to reduce or eradicate the gangs, no one succeeded. Mr Bukele (and against my assessment) completely delivered his mission impossible. True, he dissed some ''democratic principles'', but none the liberated people will protest, except those profiting from crime and western far away and salon virtue signaling ''wokists''..🙌@@FBread-xj8qk
In Latin America a lot of Asian countries have the stereotypes of self-deleting. S. Korea self-deleting rate is only a couple of percentages below Mexicos homicide rate. And depending on the year sometimes it’s higher.
Asia is much better to live in, we’ll move back from SA.
Extorting a street vendor is lowest of the low.
Extorting anybody is period.
Coming to a street near you, unfortunately.
@@dancemunki Eh. The ruling class could use some. Modern Robin Hood type stuff.
Extorting schoolgirls is the lowest of the low
@@Phearsum ah yes, reaching into the pockets of the poor and rich and putting it into your own pockets is "robin hood type stuff"
"Human rights groups are dismayed" that gore content has seen a 90% decrease.
Human rights organizations are not about human rights anymore if you haven’t noticed. They don’t care about law and order and are prefer an environment of chaos. Good job president !!!
yeah how else can you launder money on the graves of innocents? cmon man!
@@blacktophemirt8526 finally someone else gets it
Human Right groups are more worried of the right of criminals...no more ONG.
Human rights, you mean murderer rights.
He said " they are never getting out, don't worry" 😂😂
When you start treating a criminal like a criminal people are less inclined in becoming a criminal.
I guarantee you there are now some innocent people serving life sentences among dangerous criminals because of this guy’s policies. Yeah, there was a reduction in crime but this sets an incredibly bad precedent.
Very true. If crime pays people will consider it a job opportunity.
This will lead to nothing other than perpetual police violence, becomeing a police state and not resolving poverty at all
When you start treating a Rabid Animals like a rabid Animals people are less inclined in becoming a criminal.
There; FIFY
@@brandonsheets1883And how many innocent people on the outside are alive that would otherwise be dead? The alternative of turning the country around in a traditional way could take 2 or 3 generations, or longer.
Imagine a president who puts a country back in line by stopping the criminal gangs from destroying it. Oh, the horror...
it works because El Salvador is a small country compared to the US, there's hundreds of videos out there of US gang members doing heinous things even in prison, search up TD bingham.
Agreed. Trumplethinskin should be locked up now. With his own mafia, the U.SS.
@@chrisli3251 That's a wrong way to look at it. What he did was a big deal because the previous presidents didn't achieve the success at cracking down the gangs previously. So to turn the tide is no small feat.
Oh the blatant beginnings of fascism by blocking civilian rights. Stop looking at it with rose tinted glasses.
@@lotus1219Eh, let’s be real. This was achieved by Bidens open border policy.
I hate how people complain about gang members not having their human rights in prison..where were the human rights of their victims?
even more sad is the news media aiding criminals - due to making money off it. As they explained in the video - the news is working with gangs.
There are alot of wrongly imprisoned people locked up for petty crime, they are preyed upon by the harder serious criminals.. the human rights are mainly there for those light prisoners and to stop the corruption & abuse by corruption guards... not everyone behind bars is guilty or hard-core gang members
Wouldn’t it be nice to send the human rights activist complaining about this for a stay at the prison for a couple weeks followed by an immersion into a culture that still plagued by the criminal activity.
Maybe then, they would learn some fucking empathy if they survived the environment
This is false socialist moralism
Not all of those people in jail are gang members. They arrested anyone evidence or not
Human rights is for humans not brutal criminal gangs.
Finally a real man,who cares about the citizens
Unfortunatelly many innocents are being caught.
The country is supposed to belong to its citizens and not to its criminals. People will think twice before acting in order to avoid trouble, watch and report any unusual or suspicious event or individuals. It works perfectly well in China, or PRK. It was the way of living in the communist Block till Gorbatschow screwed it big time.
Amén brother
@saul like in many other countries..that don’t mean it’s wrong to jail criminals.
That comma 💀
I have to say, mixing gangs in prison and not caring about prison violence sounds like a real winner to me
They aren’t mixed. Where did you see they were?
@@razman4240 They mentioned it in this video.
@@razman4240they are. The cell mates are on rotation and are constantly shuffled like a deck of cards so there's no chance of unity and coordination for at least another decade.
The real winner is the majority of prisoners have not had a hearing or charges because that would require a judicial system. Prisoners have no right to lawyer or hearing. The beauty of ' Martial Law' & police state is real winner every time.
@@fluffy1931 The steep drop in crime rate says it all.
They transporting prisoners in there underwear. Thats humiliation to the max. No kid looks at a gang member as someone to look forward to. Way to go
Here, the prisoners or wannabes show theirs for advertising
US criticising Bukele just shows how sinister they really are. Behind the scenes, one can only imagine what the government is up to. Perhaps they are secretly funding these terrorists groups and trying to act like the hero.
@@cvhinson1you want to try be a wannabe gangsters watch them cry when there faceing prison for life
Exactly.
they just lock up everybody.... we all know this is a lie... look into it ya'll.... also the president works with the gangs and they still run the show.... yankees are so naive
"This strategy won't work anywhere else. Don't bother trying."
This presentation brought to you by The Mexican Cartels.
The problem with Mexico is money. Mexican gangs are loaded, and they share their money with people in power. When a local Mexican police chief makes $15000 but the cartels pay him $35000 to look the other way, the lines between the good guys and the bad guys become blurred. In El Salvador all the bad guys did was steal from the locals, they didn't have a massive influx of cash from the drug trade. (Plus gang members tattooed their faces.)
It can work but Mexico is to corrupt
"these prisoners are tortured" but like... These guys were literally raping and killing
And torturing...
you assume they all did that. Gang members do that for sure but not every single one does. Some have no choice but to join they have no family or options. A lot are forced into that life they see it as a civil war
@@tonylvezmeh, i believe every single one of them have done torturing
@@tonylvezIf you are part of a gang that kills, murders, rapes,etc. You have to be aware of the consequences of the whole group. There is no sugar coating here
Two wrongs don’t make a right… this is the kind of policy Trump would implement.
No human right for those gang members.
You mean the ones you think you elected in? Because they are the biggest criminals.
I bet your President is as dirty as anyone else. Just like the US President. Just like the President of any and all nations. Crooks.
Easy to tell who they are because they stamped it on their forehead lol
They are not human...so it makes sense.
They don't deserve it.
@@Raquel-r1w tf are you dumb🤓
It's sick when society cares more about criminals than victims.
They care about the innocent people who haven't had a trial before being imprisoned. Are *you* willing to be wrongly imprisoned for these policies to be carried out?
@@kyleolcott1769Number of murdered victims can be calculated from tattoo designs of some of these “innocent people.” Everything you say i nonsense.
😂😂😂😂@@kyleolcott1769
@@kyleolcott1769 To these people all they can see is it happening to those they don't like and therefore can't see the downsides. I would not cheer this on so willingly if I were any of them, rather be cautious about it
@kyleolcott1769 this police state is bad. The decades of gang rule was worse
We will happily accept bukele with love and respect in Haiti 🇭🇹
Is your country still broken or are they starting to fix things.?
not from Haiti but i think it'll a long time before Haiti recovers.... very long time unfortunately @@detdet3871
"Bukele showed his dark side"... WHAT? Did the man forget about what he had just read about 87 people being massacred? He did what he had to do, period. Dude has balls
You have to remember that human rights for all of the country's citizens was thrown out the window as it became a surveilance state. The gang situation likely got so bad that it was worth it. But you have to acknowledge that that is a true cost and is generally not a good thing. Anyone with an adult brain has to acknowledge that there is both good and bad here.
@@ck9292 how did you handle the gangs? explain to us!!!
look, you can't expect results on the old methods, because people is more easy killed than arrested, and gangs kill alote of people very quickly when they are press. there is no other method.
Some of his actions are quite draconian
@@ck9292no, this is a good thing.
@@ck9292People would rather not be afraid of gangs anymore than never sacrifice their rights. This is how states operate. Hard decisions have to be made and done without hesitation, otherwise you can only live in uncertainty and fear. He literally just doesn’t want to play around with these people.
It's interesting how the news in the US stopped covering it after his actions worked.
So true! Even FOX (controled opposition)fake news
does it Really surprise you?
@@dead2802 No. Just interesting.
They dont cover it because Reagan caused it and Bulele is the son of a Palestinian Muslim. There ya go.
Wow, I never even noticed that. Good point..
He forgot to mention that the violence stopped mostly because every time there was a killing of an innocent person, 40k inmates didn't eat food for 3 days. And even if it wasn't gang related, the gang members put a stop to it, so their people don't starve in prison. This method can work in any country. What's any type of violence.
@muzaki28
I hope that’s true, that is smart.
Interesting method. Where did you get this information at?
Thats smart
I don't see how these gangs in prison can be rehabilitated. Now what to do with them
@@adriansmith6993 They've got a lot of tats. I'm sure there is some way to turn that into art. Seriously though, farming by hand, ditch digging and earth moving with shovels only?
Imagine, 65,000 gang members that wont end up in the U.S. and El Salvador. This is a huge part of their culture.
Im Mexican and I’m happy for El Salvador and it’s people. My friend who is Salvadoreña told me that she can finally visit her family in El Salvador for the first time.
It’s nice of the thugs to brand themselves so they’re easier to identify and arrest.
Yeah at the same time anyone with a tattoo "looks like a criminal so is a criminal" based on their new system for arrests. So now innocent people are going to be beaten or killed in these prisons just because they had a tattoo.
intellectuals
At last a man who understands how to reduce crime
Ever heard of Duterte in the Philippines? Pinochet in Chile? Himmler in Germany?
I came in the Philippines in 2017. In that year, 50.000 people died of drugs/-crime. After Duterte became president, only 4000 people died. Half of them shot by the police. People felt safe again. Same in El Salvador.
You probably live in a safe country? What a luxury.
Pinochet and esp. Himmler are of a totally different category. But for you in your luxurious safety, everything is the same.@@lawsonj39
@@lawsonj39sure, all the same...no, not at all. they are still too nice to them
@@diatomdiatom 😂 you copy and pasted this Marxist drivel on any anti crime post
How about reducing the poverty and broken families,that produce these gangs…nah
One of the greatest president for El Salvador save the country from thugs.
Where were the human rights groups when gangs controlled there and violated good people's rights?
Exactly.
Only now, libs decides to stand up against "government corruption"
Did just find out ? Or better yet are listening to the narrator ?
Too scared to say anything
brother what....
Human rights groups nowadays often prefer the criminals
"...level of cruelty..." ? ! Again, the Gang Members thought NOTHING of the rights of their VICTIMS !!!
so? does that mean you need to lower yourself to their level?
@@parsifal6094 I guess not, if you want to lose.
@Aiden-eu3wm yes, some of them didn't know better. Have you even watched the video?
You can counter brutality with brutality, but only to a specific point. After that you have to have a long term solution. Like reeducation, rehabilitation, social support.
The idea behind a good punitive system is not to lock a bad person for good, but to return him to society as a changed man.
And the real deal with the Salvadorian measures is that at least a portion of the arrested are innocent, who are not getting the chance to defend themselves in front of a judge.
Please eatch the video again, and explore the subject a bit more
@@parsifal6094Didn't know better? lmao treating them like children
@@ABlizzardIsClose most of them are. Imagine you are 15 or 16 and all you see around are youngs like yourself joining a gang. Now imagine you have nothing to do around because your government doesn't invest a dime in your future.
Now imagine, joining a gang is "cool" and be outside a gang is simply dangerous.
Now what would you do as a teenager?
When you write your own arrest warrant on your face, I'm not too concerned about your human rights.
I was thinking the same.
I think you gotta give them so recognition, after all, they are aiding the authorities in making the right arrests.
That’s just the thing. If you remove the most basic constitutional protections like freedom of speech, press, privacy, and fundamental due process, it doesn’t just apply to criminals. History is quite liter littered with these moves, and there’s always folks saying “they aren’t me, so what do I care?” Until it is you or someone you love. Until a cop arrests you because he’s having a bad day, and you realize no arrest warrants means police don’t need any justification to arrest you.
The same people in America supporting this regime, threw tantrums for 2 years over mask mandates, claiming their rights were violated. But aren’t concerned with (1) a government reading your texts with your wife without any reason to suspect wrongdoing; (2) a government criminalizing journalists publishing stories that would simply upset people (so, any story about government abuse or corruption or misconduct, or any story holding public officials accountable for say, committing crimes of their own?); (3) not having a right to defense counsel when they’re arrested for genuinely nothing at all….
Yeah exactly a little stupid idea for tattoos on your face to show the cops your a criminal smart idea well we have those in USA too
To true
Good work, Bukkele. Keep it up.
He didn't want to waste money on jails instead of using it for the hospital he built and schools. But the pieces of shit kept pushing him and he had to waste money on building the mega prison. At least he's going to make the prisoners make school furniture and in some cases he even uses prisoners to help rebuild schools...
That’s why they only have 1 toilet and 1 sink per Cell Block. To save money😁✌️
Meh, the old jails looked so terrible that people could feel pity for the scum. The mega prison looks nice and modern and he can dismiss any critics.
@@danieltinoco5428I bet you have somebody from your family in there. They should've locked up you too.
@@xhagast yes by putting them in the mega prison. enjoy your police state. obey!
@@fluffy1931 Of COURSE it is a police state, but, I wonder how many HOURS you would have lasted in old El Salvador. Only you would never have visited it. Just like you will never visit Afghanistan; it is NOT safe there. Now you can visit El Salvador, it is safe.
I love how a country actually stopping organised crime is portrayed as a bad thing
You didn't watch the full video did you
@@wolvekrome2475You didn't know the entire history of El Salvador didn't u?
@@AfiqAziz-ki1kn it covered enough didn't u see it
@@Cronusm It didn't cover enough. Read more. It was one the most violent countries in the world. Desperate measures calls for desperate actions
Many of these men are held, committing no known crime and allowing zero contact with their lawyer. You should be able to understand how that kind of policy can be incredibly abusive. Let's say only 1% of these inmates are innocent. There have been just over 79K people arrested on gang related accusations. That means 790 innocent people are being held with no hope of due process. You should be able to acknowledge the good but also see the bad in these policies. If you're willing to trade public freedom for safety just say so.
You can't have civil rights without civilization. One step at a time.
Well said!!!!!
that is so insightful, more likes for this person please
You can't have civilization without civil rights. If anyone can be arrested without evidence or cause, society won't last long.
Exactly
enjoy your police state sir.
I just hope El Salvador realizes what they have is sooo rare, the real battle is yet to come, if they want this to last they'll need build a strong sense of pride for there nation and families within their communities, law enforcement, and military... leave no room for criminals and corruption!
I've lived in El Salvador for many months at a time on three separate ocassions, as my wife is Salvadoran. When I say the crime was on a scale much worse than anything in the US, it's not possible to understand it unless you've been in a war zone, perhaps, or in some lawless African country. I lived there for 5 months in 2012 and in EACH of those months, I attended a Wake (Vela) of someone in my wife's family or friends who were murdered by the gangs, including her 17 year old nephew who was helping me shop for cheese in the Mercado the day prior. It's just mind boggling the level of extorsion, rape/assault, and robbery that existed. As a white guy, i stood out like a sore thumb and constantly had my head on a swivel. So, to look at what Bukele is doing NOW and seeing the success it is having is really incredible. The people there have suffered for so long with the war in the 80's and early 90's and then again with the gang problem, so if some toes are stepped on in the process, so be it. We have the luxury in the US and the West to point fingers at a smaller countries policies and nit pick and say they aren't "democratic" enough. In extra-ordinary situations like this, maybe level 10 Abraham Lincoln Constitutional policies just don't work, and so be it. They will work out there own problems, and in the meantime, street vendors aren't getting murdered for not paying their weekly 40% allotment to MS13.
Thanks for your sharing.
My wife now is from El Salvador. Lived there during the worst of it in the mid 2000s. I couldn't believe the stories she told me. When I first heard about Bukele i was skeptical. Worried it was just another dictator. After hearing what her and her family went through it totally changed my opinion on things. He is a hero to the Salvadoran people. She plans on going back for the first time in 10 years next year. It's great to see the people live the lives they deserve.
Thank you for verifying this.
The Salvadoran gangs' habit of tattooing their gang affiliation on their bodies made rounding up gang members a snap. What a dumb group.
What do you mean white are salvadorians not white?
I am surprised to find a RUclips channel that is so well-informed about El Salvador's history, covering the civil war and gang wars succinctly. As part of a CEAT unit, I personally fought against MS-13 and 18. However, the government's corruption hindered effective eradication efforts. Then President Nayid emerged and cleaned up the entire country. I Departed for Iraq and Afghanistan, I never imagined my homeland would be rescued by someone like him. We need more leaders of his caliber. I'm proud of what he has achieved. Now, I can return home without fearing for my life. Despite spending over 9 years in Texas and identifying as a Texan, my heart remains in El Salvador. I've shed blood for both my countries. Although I had lost faith in mankind, I find solace in the freedom to work hard in the United States. Previously, in El Salvador, hard work often meant funding gangs, a notion I now dismiss.
Isn't there now the danger of a vacuum that will be filled by Mexicans and Columbians?
Wow sir, youve been through quite a bit. I do not blame you for losing faith in mankind. However perhaps faith in Jesus Christ could heal some of the wounds youve suffered in your heart. I don't know why but God wanted me to say this to you. I mean no disrespect to you whatsoever I only follow my heart when the Holy Spirit ushers it. May you and your family be blessed all the days of your lives.
You are amazing, man. Glad to have you here ❤
feel good about your country being saved while you helped destroy 2 others.
@@Jack-he8jv Good point, but only about Irak.
Mercy to criminals is cruelty to victims.
Lord, have mercy!
THIS
Failure to remember Mercy when it is needed is to invite barbarism into ones soul, these men will eventually be leaving prison, and it is up to how you treat them that will determine if they go back or if they rejoin society
Bukkele's success and popularity, both inside his country and on the world stage, are a result of the fact that he operates consistently under one simple principle: COMMON SENSE
Bukele is a global hero -I rate this man high
I 2nd that
As an el Salvadoran yeah
I like Bukele, but he's paving a road that may turn out badly for the country. While I think Bukele is doing what he thinks is best for his country, he has consolidated the government and has full dictatorial power of the country (he controls the senate, house, and Supreme Court due expanding the bench) and if the wrong person ever comes into power, it's going to be a disaster.
@@MegaMongrol enjoy your police state.
@@fluffy1931 👍
Salvadorans: "Yay! The streets aren't full of dead bodies and we're not afraid to go out!"
Human rights guys: "Yeah, but all those murderers are no longer enjoying their lives."
You do remember the war right?
Lawyers loose their jobs.
@@bastek66 lawyers who make a living protecting criminals fuck em
@@LHLK-q2vnope
This is so hilarious and so sad, that "human rights" are actually nothing but "criminal rights" in disguise
El Salvador is showing how it‘s done. Respect from Belgium.
Allez les belges non di dju
I think the policy governments need to take is that once a gang has enacted a certain level of violence and crime the gang itself needs to be labeled as something equivalent to terrorists and treated as such. The no negotiations with terrorists policy and stripping them of legal rights is what defeats violent military scale groups from communities which is why a similar method worked in El Salvador.
Obviously a pro-gang point of view. If you want freedom from the acts of criminals sometimes you have to hurt the gangs little feelings!
I don't see it as pro gang at all. It just presents more than one point of view.
These gangs don’t deserve civility. They are animals.
@@JoeyBlogs007i dunno.. it portrays ms 13 as petty criminals as their origins which is simply untrue
So what about BLM? That's a gang.
A lot of us are children of war we are not gone our reform comes from eliminating the rappest in our garden and yours it's not black and white politicly it was smarter to let the president make a blow with us we have mothers and daughters we do not kill woman or children not all of this is true
The Blue Prince of Darkness EME ESE Coronado's lil cycos
Wow. Mind blowing. Punishing criminals stops crime. WILD
Wow You're posting this comment only after 1000 people already did
Really? punishing crime stops crime? XD
@@92501le386 still doesn't make it any less true. Even something as common sense as this appears to be lost on some politicians (democrats)
Keep snort'n wood glue sparky.
Bukele is a hero. May he remain in power for a long time.
Forever.
Yea,because that has always solved everyone's problems with long term dictators.
@@billyyank5807Prisoners in the US should be treated the same as those in El Salvador. This way, they'll think twice before committing another crime when they are paroled.
@billy no dictator has been as good as Bukele tho.
@@cortransport give it time. the boot is coming. it always does when people give one group too much power.
Viva El Salvador, your people have suffered long enough it is time did you get to live life free of this terror that has held power for many decades. I'm Mexican American and I pray for your people and your country that it continue to bloom and grow to its Max potential and I pray Mexico has a transformation such as yours.
I know a LOT of El Salvadoran's, and every single one, from across the U.S. political spectrum, are heavily supportive of the anti-gang initiative in their home country.
Good now they can go back to there country
He was reelected in a landslide gathering some 83 % of the vote. Smartly, he didn’t allow the fascist BBC to video the inside of the CECOT prison until AFTER he was reelected in 2024. Q: Who are the 250k+ who voted against him? Liberals I assume.
Using poverty as an excuse won't work. Millions of people are poor but still lead honest lives.
Poverty leaves impressionable youth vulnerable to bad influence.
Liberal Democrats always try the ether the race card of I so poor bullshit concerning on why they do crimes.
@@benargee nah that's bullshit. got nothing to do with gangs, since you don't just fall into organised crime and extreme violence from some bad influence. poverty is only a reasonable explanation when conditions are unliveable, such as going hungry. but someone stealing because of that is still absolutely nothing like organised crime.
@@benargee Poverty doesn't make someone rape a woman.
it doesn't work that way though
It's brutal but it works. Violence: that's the only language criminals speak and therefore can understand.
Only in the short term, violence always begets more violence.
@@Jafar545 lmao cope.
Nope. If locked up or dead, the violence ends. Sometimes you fight a fire with a bigger fire.
How did we stop Hitler, hmm?
@@Jafar545 Maybe they can live with you
@@rokor3578 Why should they?
If the country had 70.000 gang members ( numbers confirmed by international community) and he arrested 70.000 - then it seems quiet spot on for me!! Well done Bukele, the world needs more politicians of his caliber!!!
In July 2023 I vacationed El Salvador!! I witnessed my self of how safe and beautiful that country is!! I am definitely going back this summer!!!🙌🏼🙌🏼
Really? It's actually safe now. Like walk at night alone safe or just not get murdered safe?
@peterboyle-py4if from my understanding, it's walk around after dark safe. Even petty criminals are scared to sneeze.
safer than chicago and new york . i am in chicago , you cannot walk in downtown after dusk@@GettingSchwiftyy
@@homealone5087 "Even petty criminals are scared to sneeze."
Probably don't want to be mistaken for gang members and put in maximum prison. lmao
@chinesecovidanalswabs4752 yep. That's exactly it. Even people with tattoos won't leave their house. Maybe for good reason. I'm not sure how popular non gang tattoos are in El Salvador
My son and his best friend are on vacation in EL Salvador this week. It's a beautiful country, he sends me pictures. I also have a co worker who is from El Salvador. He recently went back to visit family. He spoke how safe it is now and it's a great feeling. We're from canada.
Yep! I live in Guatemala but have visited El Salvador recently very safe
And Mexico still sux, comparatively speaking. Cartel seems to control both sides of the border! Sad!
And Canada is now a sh**hole cuz of migrants, as an Asian don't hate on us for being conservative
Nayib Bukele is an outstanding leader and brought peace to his country. It seems his policies have been effective.
Gang violence is a breach of community human rights
Criminals are not victims. Stop treating them as such and watch things get better quickly.
Yah the people who live in low crime gated communities be all about that.
@@MindlessTube”be all about that” go back to school groid. Save the nation bring back segregation
@MindlessTube Nope. Good people living under gangs begged the us government for help in the 90s and still do today. Go touch grass and find out
At the very least they should get a fair trial for fairness' sake. If it gets you off they'll be in there for a while.
Humans are not good for nature. Don´t stop nuklear war and don´t watch how nature will recover.
>overcrowded in prisons
Oh no, those poor criminals!
Who actually says that though?
@@CaptainHinesightall of the delusional “human rights activists” say that. they care about how the criminals suffer, not about how the population sufferED. if only they gave as much shits about the gp as they did about the gang members. they may think that “many are forced into gang life”. That may be true, but each person knows the consequences of gang life before they join, and they chose to do so.
over crowded means they are doing a better job, sometimes.
Rehabilitation is the point. Not just punishment. If you put too much emphasis on punishment, rehabilitation becomes impossible. Everyone deserves a chance at rehabilitation. Everyone can be rehabilitated. Is everyone worth it? No, i dont think so, but most are. Crime is almost always a symptom of poverty and lack of opportunity. Criminals are usually people that have failed society because society failed them first
One in a cell. Remove the t.v the sofa the armchair, the bookcase. 4 in a cell.
I just visited El Salvador for 9 days and felt completely safe. The people are so friendly and welcoming. They were patient with my broken Spanish lol. The country itself has beautiful views and I encourage anyone to visit the Surf City area. El Tunco is full of friendly travelers from all over the world. El Salvador is home to some of the best surfing in the Americas as well. I’m grateful I was able to experience such a beautiful place that I wouldn’t have been able to visit just a few years ago.
I am planning to go, do you have some recommendations?
Greetings from El Salvador. Glad you liked our country😊
What does one do with trash? YOU BURY IT.
From one of the most violent and unsafe nation on earth, to one of the safest.
What he accomplished is truly amazing.
Usa should take a lesson from this.....although the medicine was distasteful but look at the result.....time to prescribe it here imho.
@@framusburns-hagstromiii808El Salvador’s population is 6.5 million…the United States population is about 330+ million and not to mention how massive the US is and the completely different infrastructure it has compared to a much smaller country in El Salvador.
@@redt7452 Yeah but let's look at money now. Without a doubt USA has way WAY more money than salvador and more militar resources than probably 90% of the world. If USA truly wanted, they could stop focusing in useless conflicts outsides and clean house.
Hopefully other countries will follow soon.
The democratic party didn't f that country up but they are in the US...
Wait, so Bukele has been criticized for making his country safe?
They called him nazi for sending the murderers of 120,000 Salvadorans to jail. Those liberals are really dumb.
No he’s being criticized for violating constitutional and potentially human rights. Machiavellian tactics are a slippery slope. He’s effectively turned El Salvador into a police state. While it has reduced crime, that is not a viable solution to the problem in the long term. Inevitably a police state comes under the control of corrupt individuals with agendas that can target marginalized groups or specific classes of people. What’s effectively stopping him from accusing the political opposition of being connected to gang members? He already made journalism practically illegal when it comes to reporting on crime. Do you see the problem here?
what you expect from western activist? most of them living and grew up in peaceful society, sure their perspective about rights is stupid oftenly
no, he was criticized for ignoring basic human rights and throwing 65,000 people into jail without any trial. If you watched the report anywhere between a third and a half of the inmates are innocent
@@parsifal6094 How do you know that?
They are concerned about the rights of gangs but not of the innocents.
Always
@@drivenmad7676ha! You see this hmmm 🤔, they only care about criminals but not innocent civilians.
I'd reckon a massive portion of them are innocent. Think of how corrupt police officers even in countries like the USA are and have been in the past, and that's despite having a 'fair' trial and assumption of innocence. Here, a officer could arrest anyone with no reason,and they would not have a trial.. this is crazy
how did they make sure they got the right people? how do we know they didnt grab somebody innocent? the video explained evidence was not needed, no lawyers. even with our justice system, the innocent get convicted. what if you accidently made a cop angry in el salvador and he "decides" you are a gang member.
this could happen to you. be careful what you wish for.
Those hypocrites, that's why I despise human rights groups because they don't care about the people.
El Salvador was considered a lost cause. Now, it has a chance of survival.
Unfortunately it takes EXTREMISM to eradicate EXTREMISM. Hats off to Nayib Bukele. He probably saved thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of innocent lives.
Ok so when does his police state end? His move reduced crime for a while now.
@@victor75208you're asking the right question
@@victor75208when he loses the public support, and people vote for somebody else...
That's how a GOOD democracy works....
@@victor75208 Until those in jail perish of old age!
Only then, will they have had 2 generations of people with an absolute intolerance of, and freedom from organized crime!
Subsequent administrations will need to continue the hardline, but as long as there are people such as yourself- an inevitable fact sadly, I doubt it will last long.
You *_seem to_* care more for the criminals than their countless past and future victims.
Probably millions since these criminal groups sell drugs.
"Mercy upon the guilty is a cruelty to the innocent"
_"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent."_ - Ayn Rand
😀
@exnihilonihilfit6316 I honestly don't know the original, I just remember it from a Tumbler shitpost.
Ayn Rand is probably not someone you wanna quote and idolize.
@@rosalind1635 and why not?
@@marianrucareanu8802 In short, because she promotes individual egotism in a way that is ultimately both unnatural to the instincts of our species and would lead to even greater divides between rich and poor/powerful and helpless, and, if practiced across the board, would almost certainly lead to our planet becoming uninhabitable in record time.
Ayn Rand is the darling of massive, international corporations and banks. Not of the common man.
I like that Bukele told those govts that complained about his tactics,"send over planes, I give them to you to take back to your country. How many you want? 5 thousand, 10 thousand?" He had no takers.
Joe was a taker they're here now
@@roberttilford7991 your absolutely correct.
It's like German politicians complained to some African country about their shooting of wild elephants, such a rare species. They answered like "send ships, we can deliver you 20000 of them". Silence.
😅 😂 😮
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! 🤡
Imagine the civil rights violations the people of El Salvador must now endure by not being terrorized on a daily basis by thugs! The horror!
Imagine putting murderers in jail!
And also tons of innocent people
@@mattbomb100gang members are innocent?
BIGOTRY! They're only that way because they had cruel childhoods! THEY'RE VICTIMS!
@@Just_A_Random_Desk they’re not, in the year this has happened the country has tried to keep it silent, but the country has imprisoned a lot of actually innocent people. Journalists, family of gang members, neighbors of gang members, victims that the gangs were extorting money from and basically anyone who remotely looks suspicious or has the slightest connection to affiliated gang members.
@@Just_A_Random_Desk journalist from out the country went in to El Salvador to film a documentary and actually caught the cops being shady. The cops heard rap music went to investigate the source and found a 15 year old kid sitting outside his house listening to rap. The searched him for tattoos, weapons, contraband and literally anything.
I had an El Salvadorian man visit my hotel. He's in the military. He said the goal is to control the gangs within the country, and then have all the ones abroad extradited back to El Salvador to be dealt with.
Imagine if Mexico did this.
Amen 🙏
Holy Jesus, if he pulls it off!!
@@robertwilsoniii2048???
Most Mexican gangs are composed of American citizens with Mexican ancestry. Cartel tends to stay in Mexico.
This is all the gangs know. Meet them with what they know! The gangs know no humanity, you can’t show them humanity!
As if I needed more reasons to vote for this guy. Stop trying to convince me. He's already got my vote.
Trump?
@WoodysAR, Trump is Salvadoran?
@@yangerjamir0906 Hi. Former President Donald Trump is a U.S. citizen without any dual citizenships.
I want this guy to be my PRESIDENT
@@imw2902Meh, what you need is a Pinochet. He would have 'final-solutioned' these gangs instead of housing them. This guy is barely the 'sugar-free/Great-Value Brand' of a Ceaser.
I am a Bukele fan! The US coddles their inmates... gratuitous family visits with the opportunity of contraband handoffs, dorm style cells, a warm bed, blankets, commisary, a nice ride to court, walks on the yard to get into cahoots and set up factions, and a varied menu. Bukele has made the jail to court trip seamless bc its right at the prison, no blanket no cushy mattress and pillow, no dorm style roommate situation, no varied menu, no commissary, no visits, and their rec time is at gunpoint. No BS. The MS did worse to their victims so they better love their new life. None of them are choir boys with their arrest warrants literally tatted on themselves from head to foot. Good job Bukele!
Those gangs made life hell in El Salvador. I have Salvadoran friends who immigrated here during the civil war that finally are able to go home and visit family without fear. It may seem tough, but what Bukele has done in fighting these gangs has been a Godsend to the Salvadoran people. Screw the critics. The martyred St. Oscar Romero would undoubtedly approve of the change.
something had to be done
Nayib Bukele is a gift from G-d for the El Salvadoran people. G-d bless and heal El Salvador !!!
If your face is tattooed, go to jail. Love the self ID.
No need to self-censor the word GOD. "Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them" Luke 9:26
@@desolder75g*D, j*S*S
@@desolder75 I understand it may look that way but that is how many Jewish people write it although not law but an observance I practice.
@@stevencurry9349 They use G-d because they are afraid God might hear them and punish them for their hateful hearts.
The U.S. should have zero tolerance for gang members. Thank God for people like the new President of El Salvador.
Been saying that forever.
good I agree ..... lock up police gangs in california and all over the country.... there are literal police gangs in america
Doesn’t stop over 100 killed by guns everyday though, homelessness rising to above 600,000 and crime shooting up with no end in sight, this is freedom and democracy, for who?
what does that mean though? life in prison for gang affiliation? doesnt matter the crime commited? whether its some kid that gets dragged along or a murderer? how do you define this gang affiliation? is being seen with a group of gang members enough?
@@Wulfryk A capital crime deserves capital punishment. Accessories to capital crimes have usually received the same sentences as the main perpetrators. Almost by definition, if you're hanging out with a gang, you're a gang member. And if you're covered with the tattooed signs of the gang, it's prima facie evidence you're a member. Stop looking for excuses.
Throwing violent criminals in jail and throwing away the key works? WowWw AmaZinG