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El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele on Haiti Chaos: ‘We Can Fix It’
Brietbart ^ | 11 MAR 2024 | FRANCES MARTEL

Posted on 03/11/2024 6:17:43 PM PDT by Texan4Life

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, declared on Sunday that “we can fix” the ongoing political turmoil and rampant gang violence in Haiti, equating the images of brutality from the island nation to the state of affairs in his home country before implementing a law enforcement crackdown in 2022.

Bukele did not specify who the “we” in his sentence was — whether he meant the government of El Salvador or the international community in general. He later commented that “experts” had declared similar violence in El Salvador “intrinsic” to the country, and the eradication of organized criminal violence from the country had proven them wrong.

El Salvador suffered decades of near-total control of society by organized criminal gangs, most prominently Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang. Bukele, who took office in 2019, greatly expanded police authority and, in 2022, enacted a “state of exception” that allowed police to detain tens of thousands of gang suspects. Bukele also built “mega-prison” complexes to house the suspects and is processing the criminals in mass trials to facilitate their removal from society.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bitcoinnation; brietbart; bukele; elsalvador; gangs; haiti; prisons; sidebarabuse
Bukele Knows Gangs . . .
1 posted on 03/11/2024 6:17:43 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

1. His country still has a lot of problems to work on.

2. I don’t think he realized just how dysfunctional Haiti is or that he’d be dealing with an average level of human capital well below even that of El Salvador.


2 posted on 03/11/2024 6:24:02 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: Texan4Life

Give Haiti to him. Nobody else wants it, especially since the CGI raped the country for fun, child trafficking, andenchrome, and beaucoup profit.


3 posted on 03/11/2024 6:24:21 PM PDT by pingman (It's a Clown World, and we're paying for it.)
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To: GrootheWanderer

He knows how to handle gangs tho. And as Bukele has stated himself, there was no way to work on the country until the gangs were removed first. He’s right. And until the gangs are removed in Haiti, there’s no moving forward.


4 posted on 03/11/2024 6:39:04 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Texan4Life

Bukele will build up the police force in Haiti. He’ll ask the Americans for new weapons. Then he’ll go after the gangs. No mercy. He has the will to get it done. He’s very charismatic.


5 posted on 03/11/2024 6:43:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Texan4Life

Haiti was always a fragile place.

Its still suffering consequences from the meddling of the Clinton foundation, and then Hillary Clinton and Obama.


6 posted on 03/11/2024 6:44:51 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Texan4Life

Oh he’ll handle the gangs the same way he did at home: send them to the USA like everyone else has.


7 posted on 03/11/2024 7:02:18 PM PDT by thescourged1 (Who put this tagline here?)
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To: Texan4Life
There was a short time in the Haitian revolution, when civilized black men tried to keep Haiti in the French sphere, but under majority rule in Haiti.

But the French double-crossed them - took out the civilized and Christian black leaders by betrayal ( so I have read), the non-Christian black leaders took over and Haiti has never been really civilized since.

The massacres of whites mostly happened after the Christian black leaders were betrayed and imprisoned by the French, so I have read.

USA President Adams gave the Haitian rebels aid for a while.

8 posted on 03/11/2024 7:05:22 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Texan4Life

Just leave it and it will fix itself.


9 posted on 03/11/2024 7:38:47 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Texan4Life

The only way to fix gang violence is to mow them all down.

NOTHING else will work.


10 posted on 03/11/2024 7:48:24 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: metmom

Forced sterilization for the gang members.


11 posted on 03/11/2024 8:26:45 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Texan4Life
I say we let him take a shot at it.
12 posted on 03/11/2024 8:46:15 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: thescourged1

bttt


13 posted on 03/11/2024 9:03:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced early Tuesday that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created, capitulating to international pressure that seeks to save the country overwhelmed by violent gangs that some experts say have unleashed a low-scale civil war.

https://apnews.com/article/haiti-henry-resignation-prime-minister-violence-28acaecc1d80d993c99fe43a5e1e1f7f


14 posted on 03/11/2024 10:19:37 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

You can’t fix the people.


15 posted on 03/11/2024 11:35:51 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Their ability to reproduce is not their biggest threat.

They can still traffic drugs and sex and commit horrendous acts of violence and torture against innocent people.

They need to be rendered incapable of harming anyone ever again. There are not too many options for that course of action.


16 posted on 03/11/2024 11:44:07 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Texan4Life

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17 posted on 03/12/2024 3:42:18 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Texan4Life


18 posted on 03/12/2024 4:41:04 AM PDT by Iron Munro (AMERICA - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT !)
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To: GrootheWanderer
"I don’t think he realized just how dysfunctional Haiti is or that he’d be dealing with an average level of human capital well below even that of El Salvador."

I agree. Haiti has been broken since its successful slave revolt. They have never moved past tribalism. Until they fix that, nothing will change.

19 posted on 03/12/2024 6:42:44 AM PDT by fini
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To: HollyB
And as Bukele has stated himself, there was no way to work on the country until the gangs were removed first. He’s right. And until the gangs are removed in Haiti, there’s no moving forward.

Slow Joe can handle that. He'll just move them to Florida. That's what Jimmy Carter did with the Cuban criminals.

20 posted on 03/12/2024 11:24:09 AM PDT by PAR35
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