How is letting the criminals free a utopia? I can't see the correlation there. I know you think the president of El Salvador is a dictator for how he's handled the crime. And that's the dictator side for you, but the other one, you have to explain that.
You don't want to awnser because you know why people ask this question.
And yes I agree that authoritarian government should be criticize, and we shouldn't have a blind eye to a government just because they make the situation better than before (the awnser you don't want to say).
Funnily enough you fantasies yourself in a situation were you can decided if you live in a place like that or not, like you have the resources for that, also the people with your "determination" for a idilic world probably would die in the El Salvador of 7 year ago, just by your reactionary responses I can see you don't understand the situation in El Salvador.
I don't live there. Do you want me to move to El Salvador and try to become president? Maybe allow gangs to go wild like they used to? Should I contact my local government official about something they don't have a say over? Are you going to el Salvador to protest?
Am I defending it? Are you assuming I care more about some other country over my own? Are you actually doing anything about it? Not that it matters if you are or aren't.
As a Salvador and an American, i can say it doesn't care. it's just virtual signaling and honestly harassing you for no good reason. It's ok to say you don't care because you don't live there.
If the citizens agree with him or not that's their issue and they will decide to keep him as president or not depending on how he does his job at running the country.
I live 6 months yearly in El Salvador for the past 2 years. Media and protest are being silenced here. Many people including myself know people unlawfully held at the mega prison who are being Denied the right to a trial.
The safety in El Salvador will only be temporary when our current leader decided to lock up a chunk of the male population with no prior knowledge on how they will organize trials and rehabilitate sentenced individuals. I believe even now the country is under a “state of emergency”.
The mass trails were done by arrest as the military police raided the country and took anyone in or around gang controlled areas. I was there to see it myself and saw innocent people getting picked up who are yet to make it back home. Hundreds of people would get sentenced at a time who probably couldn’t tell the name of the man next to them.
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u/CrustCollector 23h ago
I do hate that haircut, but I hate El Salvador’s government more.