El Salvador’s Hardline President Manages to Do the Unthinkable: Wipe Out Country’s Rampant Gang Violence
NYC could learn from this
Initially criticized as inhumane, the hard-line crime-fighting policies enacted by the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, are now being applauded across Latin America and returning a semblance of law and order to a country once plagued by some of the worst gang violence in the world.
“We close May 10, 2023, with zero homicides nationwide,” Mr. Bukele wrote on his Twitter account last week. “With this, it’s 365 days without homicides, a whole year.”
His claim to have completely eradicated homicide nationwide is disputed by critics. Yet, even they acknowledge that after having some of the highest murder rates in the world, El Salvador now has one of the lowest crime rates in Latin America.
Salvadorans feel the change on the streets, a director of the University of Don Bosco’s prevention of youth violence program in Soyapango, El Salvador, Juan Carlos Torres, tells the Sun. People prefer to have policemen or officials intercept them in the street to ask for documentation than to have a gang member threatening them, Mr. Torres adds.
Gangs had a large presence and controlled vast territory in the country. Citizens were scared to even walk the streets in some places, Mr. Torres says. Mr. Bukele’s new strategies “brought relief to the people in El Salvador,” he says.
Yet, Mr. Torres adds, the information provided by the government regarding zero homicides is omitting all homicides that were not committed by gangs. “They declared war on the gangs,” Mr. Torres says. “So what is being counted in that figure is homicides of gang members” only.
On March 27, 2022, following two days in which nearly 100 people died in El Salvador from gang violence, Mr. Bukele announced a state of emergency and deployed thousands of soldiers throughout the country to arrest gang members.
A video Mr. Bukele shared in February depicts 2,000 gang members being transported to the prison built by the administration, the Terrorism Confinement Center. El Salvador’s government says it is the Americas’ largest prison. “This will be their new house, where they will live for decades, mixed up, unable to do any more harm to the population,” Mr. Bukele said.
El Salvador had one of the highest homicide rates in the hemisphere outside of war zones for years. The two gang groups taking over the country’s neighborhoods were Barrio 18, or Street 18, and MS-13. Barrio 18 was founded in Los Angeles, California and made its way down to Central America by recruiting immigrants.
Mr. Bukele’s approach to crime helped him maintain a national approval rate of over 75 percent since taking office in 2019. That support is higher than any recent Salvadoran president, according to local media. Now, according to the latest survey by LPG Datos, released in March 2023, Mr. Bukele’s approval rate has risen to 91 percent.
In addition, 88 percent of Salvadorans say gang crime has decreased since the measures were established, according to a survey released by the University Institute of Public Opinion. About 76 percent say they feel safe, as opposed to 11 percent who say they don’t.
About 68,000 gang members have been arrested since Mr. Bukele announced his campaign against crime, local media report. Videos of gang members in handcuffs, walking with their bodies bent over, flooded social media accounts worldwide. Images of inmates stacked closely together, sitting with their legs on each side of the man in front of them also sent shockwaves around the world.
Officials from other Latin American countries have voiced their intentions to imitate Mr. Bukele’s anti-crime measures. A candidate in Argentina’s upcoming presidential election, Santiago Cuneo, vowed to follow Mr. Bukele’s steps if elected. The mayor of Lima, Peru, Rafael Lopez Aliaga, sent a letter to his minister of defense in April, requesting the presence of the army on the streets, praising Mr. Bukele’s approach.
Mr. Bukele’s measures have their critics as well. Human rights groups claim he unlawfully detains people without complying with legal requirements. “Some of the arrests were based solely on individuals having tattoos, or a prior criminal record, or the fact that they were living in an area controlled by a gang,” a report by Amnesty International says.
The human rights group also condemns the conditions in which gang members are imprisoned. By the end of 2022, about 94,000 prisoners were detained even though El Salvador’s prisons are designed to hold no more than 30,864 inmates, according to Amnesty International. Food and basic hygiene supply shortages, prison guards mistreatment of inmates, and torture by gang members are some of the things Amnesty International has complained about.
In an interview with Le Monde, Vice President Ulloa of El Salvador said that abuse reports are being investigated and that innocent people arrested are being released. “It’s natural that there’s a margin of error, and this must be corrected,” he said.
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Liberal Racism and the Truth About ‘White Supremacy’
Look out, “extremist white supremacy” is coming to get you! It’s lurking behind every bush, under every bed, it will get you because it is everywhere. It is, in fact, the top domestic terrorist threat in the country...if you don’t count 10,000 murders of black people as terrorism and only focus on the killings of 25 people. That may sound odd or absurd, and it is (both). It’s also what Democrats argue because they don’t give a single damn about the slaughter of anyone they can’t monetize or use to mobilize.
President Joe Biden encouraged the 2023 graduating class at Howard University to “stand up against the poison of white supremacy as I did in my inaugural address, to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to homeland is white supremacy. And I’m not saying this because I’m a black HBCU, I say it wherever I go.” By the way, the “B” in “HBCU” stands for black; there are no non-black HBCUs.
What is the “threat” from white supremacy the lives of those graduates are facing? Nothing. Literally nothing. A rounding error in crime statistic, at best.
Almost 10,000 black people were murdered in 2020 (9,941, to be exact) compared to 7,043 white people. How many of those 10,000 were killed by “extremists”? Well, according to the left-wing Anti-Defamation League, a group with everything to gain by inflating those numbers, the total was 25.
Reuters reports, “White supremacists commit the highest number of domestic extremist-related murders in most years, but in 2022 the percentage was unusually high: 21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists.” So, the total is 21. That’s 21 out of 9,941 or .0021 percent. Is that the “biggest threat” black people face? They have higher odds of getting hit by a train while on an airplane flying over the Atlantic than to be a victim of “white supremacy extremism.” (Naturally, Reuters framed it in a way to scare and mislead people, headlining the story, “White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022.” If you don’t have the facts or numbers, highlight the percentages…)
Why don’t Democrats tell the truth – that the drug dealers Democrats refuse to prosecute are exponentially more likely to murder innocent black people than any other configuration of human being? Because, unlike that garbage like from Biden and his commencement address at Howard, telling the truth won’t get you applause from any leftists, let alone an educated black audience. And yes, they did applaud that absurd line (watch it here for yourself).
If you want to talk about indoctrination, look no further than what Democrats have done to the education system in predominately black cities, and especially HBCUs. How can anyone believe there are bands of white supremacists – a term, by the way, that Democrats have abused more than Democrat Jeffrey Epstein abused young girls while Democrats sucked up to him, to mean anything and anyone they don’t like – roaming the country looking for minorities to kill?
I wrote this in my book a few years ago, but it’s relevant today, the Southern Poverty Law Center estimated there are between 5,000 and 8,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States, or an average of 6,500. The average attendance of a WNBA game in 2016 was 7,655, a record for them at the time and something they celebrated. That meant there were more than 1,100 more people in attendance of the average game of one of the least popular professional sports in the world than in the most widely known “extremist white supremacist” organization in the country, possibly the world.
Yet, through some miracle known only to Democrats, white supremacists are the greatest terroristic threat the nation faces. Must be that “new math” we’ve been hearing about.
That old politicians looking to manipulate black people spew lies like this should surprise no one, Democrats have been doing that for hundreds of years. That anyone still buys it is a testament to just how engrained the real racism in this country, found exclusively on the left, is still riding strong.
The fact is about 90 percent of black murder victims are killed by black killers (it’s roughly the same for every race, but the numbers are about 10 percentage points less). By not acknowledging this reality, Joe Biden is lying in order to reinforce one of the most important narratives Democrats have going. They’re also lying to obscure the fact that unchecked progressive Democrat policies truly are the greatest threat to black lives in the country. But you’d only care about that if you honestly believed that “Black Lives Matter.” Clearly, Democrats and even BLM activists do not.
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President Trump Emerges Victorious Once Again
He may no longer be our president, but he's still stacking wins and owning his enemies.
The years-long investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation is over. Its conclusions were damning for the FBI, the Department of Justice, and their allies in the media. The game is over, and Donald Trump has won.
The FBI's long list of corruption and politically motivated actions has finally been exposed. Special Counsel John Durham's 300-page report reveals what we've known since the 2016 election: the FBI has become the political police force of the Democratic Party. Fueled by animus toward the now-former president, these agents engaged in overreach and malfeasance for which someone should be imprisoned. We can sift through the years of nonsense all week. The only headline liberal newspapers should have today can be summarized in three words: Trump was right.
He was right about these actions being part of the Deep State cabal, a loose confederation of intelligence and DOJ officials who intentionally engaged in operations aimed at hamstringing the Trump administration. The leaked cables between then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and ex-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak are a primary example—these are never known to the press unless someone in the IC delivers them gift-wrapped to the media. The FBI's hatred of Trump is detailed in the text messages between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. Page was a bureau lawyer, while Strzok was a top counterintelligence agent; both were involved in an extramarital affair. The tens of thousands of messages embarrassed the FBI, which has long channeled professionalism and objectivity in its actions.
Strzok's message to Page, where he said the FBI would stop Trump, stood out the most. He tried to pass that off as him exhibiting his patriotism. Strzok signed off on the spy operation against the Trump campaign, which was started when he, then-FBI Director James Comey, and ex-deputy director Andrew McCabe decided to use the Steele Dossier to get this circus going. The dossier was a piece of political propaganda, an opposition research project funded by the Clinton campaign.
They knew this and that there was evidence that this could be riddled with Russian disinformation. This key detail was omitted because they wanted to keep the illegal spy warrants which targeted Trump officials alive. The core evidence behind this charade was deficient.
"The objective facts show that the FBI's handling of important aspects of the Crossfire Hurricane matter were seriously deficient," wrote Durham. "Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the (Justice) Department and FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report."
And here's the kill shot:
"Neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."
Heads must roll at the FBI, a tall order since no one has been adequately punished for this attempted coup. It's treason. Punishment for treason should always be death, and if this tall order is met—all family members of the conspirators should have their citizenship revoked. But this will never happen, as the political class always protects its allies. For now, the FBI is and should be viewed as a joke and not afforded any deference it once commanded over this massive election interference scheme, which it thought would remain hidden. Remember, the agency was confident that Hillary would win the election. When she didn't, Obama officials scrambled, with Barack hosting a critical meeting in January 2017, where he and his cronies drafted a game plan to protect this hoax.
After years of knowing the truth, we've been mostly vindicated about Trump. For liberals aghast at the findings or still clinging onto hope that some smoking gun evidence exposing Trump as a Russian agent will be unearthed soon, I don't know what to tell you—you're mentally ill and should ask your doctor if Paxil is right for you.
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More insanity about women in Australia and elsewhere
Note that the Wong below is Rachael Wong, not Leftist apparatchik Penny Wong
In the guise of trying to be ‘inclusive’ and ‘tolerant’ and ‘accepting’, some folks are willing to do and say the most brainless things imaginable. This practice has been going on for some time. I offer just three examples, all concerning radical trans activism that is, in my opinion, destroying the West.
Who can forget what happened in March of last year regarding US Supreme Court Justice nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson? As I said back then:
The Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked a rather simple question on Tuesday night as part of her Senate Judiciary confirmation hearings. Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, asked Jackson a question that most five-year-olds could easily answer: ‘Can you provide a definition for the word “woman?”’ Her reply was this: ‘Can I provide a definition? No, I can’t. Not in this context, I’m not a biologist.’
Such is the madness that we live under when seemingly intelligent grown-ups cannot answer the most basic of questions. It reminds me of one meme making the rounds that shows two people standing in the pouring rain. The woman asks the guy: ‘Is it raining?’ He replies: ‘I don’t know, I’m not a meteorologist.’
A similar circumstance played out in New Zealand recently. That sad episode I also wrote up at the time, so let me share that here:
Recently the uber-woke New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern stepped down. That was great news, but many of us wondered if her replacement would be any better. Well, now we know.
When a journalist asked him [Chris Hipkins] what a woman is, he said: ‘Um… to be honest that question has come slightly out of left field for me.’ When asked again he said, ‘It is not something that I have a pre-formulated answer on.’ What utter madness.
You can watch the whole, embarrassing and appalling episode here.
With ‘leaders’ like this the West doesn’t have a chance. As one friend said on the social media: ‘I just asked our 8-year-old grandson, and he certainly knows women are different to boys and men and briefly explained to me why anatomically.’ To which I replied, ‘Well, he would do a better job of running NZ than this clown would!’
But not to be outdone by America and New Zealand, we have another case of this moral breakdown occurring in Australia. It involves – of all things – the Queensland Minister for Women. Rachael Wong of Women’s Forum Australia had this to say:
Things are looking dire for women in Queensland. This week, Queensland’s Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman (who is also the state’s Attorney-General and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence), took to social media to decry a sticker placed on a sign outside her office. The sticker included the word woman, and its definition: adult human female.
According to the Minister, ‘For some people in our community, these stickers represent much more – they represent a movement which discriminates against [transgender people] and denies their existence.’
‘I want to be very clear – I don’t stand for these sort of views, our community doesn’t stand for these views, and Queenslanders don’t stand for these views,’ added the Minister."
So, the Minister for Women ‘doesn’t stand for the definition of woman’, which, as the Minister for Women, she finds offensive? It’s like we’re living in an alternate universe.
Rachael Wong also tweeted the following:
QLD ‘Minister for Women’ @ShannonFentiman answers Q ‘What is a woman?’ ‘Let’s be inclusive. Anyone that identifies as a woman is a woman… It’s not one group advancing at the expense of another.’ Tell that to the actual women whose rights you are giving away under self-ID laws.
This caught the attention of Jordan Peterson. He tweeted in reply:
"I'm responsible for something with no definition" how convenient for you @ShannonFentiman"
In an email to supporters Rachel Wong said this:
My tweet has since been shared by none other than Canadian commentator Jordan Peterson, who in raising the issue with his 4 million + followers, has now done more for women in Queensland than the one person whose job it is to represent them.
How does the Minister know someone is identifying as a woman if she can’t define what a woman is? How can she represent women if she doesn’t know who they are?
And ‘one group advancing at the expense of another’ is exactly what Fentiman’s self-ID laws will achieve.
Well done Rachael and Jordan. The complete reality meltdown that we see in our Woke leaders is the most shocking thing I have witnessed in my long lifetime. And it looks to only get worse. Who is voting in these utter nincompoops? When will this insanity come to an end?
The level of stupidity here is mind-boggling, and the big losers are women and children. As Candace Owens put it recently: ‘Telling children they can pick their gender is as fundamentally stupid as telling children they can choose their species. If we did, we’d have classrooms filled with mermaids, aquamen, wizards, gnomes, fairies, and aliens.’
But adult activists do not give a rip about the harm and confusion they may be causing to children. Heaven help us all.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/there-are-nincompoops-among-us/
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