Posted on 09/04/2023 12:03:21 AM PDT by beaversmom
MEXICO CITY — In Peru, there is talk of building a monument in his honor.
In Honduras and Ecuador, leaders have copied his draconian security policies, his tough-on-crime rhetoric — and even his fashion choices.
In Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia and Guatemala, citizens have taken to the streets calling on their own governments to embrace his extreme strategies for combating violence.
The brash young autocrat has won legions of fans throughout the region for a sweeping crackdown on gangs that has dramatically lowered violent crime. That his “mano dura” policies draw scorn from human rights and democracy advocates seems to only feed his cult-like status as a renegade willing to get things done, whatever the cost.
“He is a role model,” said Diego Uceda Guerra-García, the mayor of a district in Lima, Peru, who has called for stiffer laws and longer prison sentences, and who hopes to build a public park in Bukele’s name. “He has put an end to the scourge. In countries like ours where there is a lot of ignorance and a lot of underdevelopment, sometimes we have to be a bit heavy-handed. Half-measures do not work.”
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This guy was on Tucker’s show a couple of times. The press hates him because he doesn’t coddle criminals.
And the deep state doesn’t like him for making Bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador.
So the LA Times prefers the George Gascon approach to violent crime. It works so well.
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El Salvador is a backward country full of volcanos. They could potentially make very cheap electricity from these, but since they don’t have industrial expertise and infrastructure they wouldn’t have anything to do with it.
That’s the Bitcoin dream. Build electricity stations and bitcoin farms on these volcanoes that connect to the internet through satellite and churn out pseudomoney. No infrastructure and local expertise needed.
Leftists here can cry all they like. The verdict from the people is clear. They wholeheartedly support Bukele’s tough on crime policies. Not only has crime plummeted in El Salvador, economic growth is taking off now that people are no longer plagued with extortion, violence, murder, etc. If that took locking up a bunch of gangbangers, well then tough mierda.
The Left is pro-crime because chaos helps them acquire political power.
Mexico needs this guy
“Mexico needs this guy”
And the LA Times is obviously afraid Mexico may get him.
Seems to be a growing trend these days among journalists.
If someone who isn’t favorable to big government becomes popular and is proficient at winning elections, journalists slap the word “cult” on them or otherwise mix it into the reporting somewhere.
It can’t actually be that the person was simply popular and had good policies. It must be something creepy!
Robert Rivas, Speaker of the California State Assembly
and this guy
Alex Padilla, United States Senator from Mexifornia
Are really worried, because if anyone up here gets any ideas, that means their power base ends up being locked in the camps.
In a crisis, a real one, leaders rise to the surface with tough answers. Sometimes the public needs a “Whiff of Grapeshot” to dispel wrong headed idealism and rampant lawlessness. It will happen here as well!
Yeh, I noticed the cult dig and other digs throughout the article.
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