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  • El Salvador will continue buying 1 Bitcoin daily until it becomes unaffordable with fiat currencies
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[–] [email protected] 157 points 8 months ago (36 children)

Imagine your president being a 40yo cryptobro version of Trump. No wonder people are leaving

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (23 children)

He's winning against the gangs though - every Salvadorean I know supports him.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (20 children)

Talk to families of unjustified imprisoned people or to the people itself. His 'fixing' was done by basically imprisoning everyone, which just happened to be close to any suspect gang member. There where even cases where a mailman was imprisoned because he just happenend to deliver a parcel during a raid.

Yes, he fixed the gang problem for now. But at a high price – the loss of a fair justice system. He imprisoned 1.2 % of the total population in just 2 years.

I know that freedom vs security is a fine balance and once security suffers significantly, you are willing to give up quiet a lot of freedom. But since he just imprisoned everyone and their relatives, its only a temporary fix – unless he wants to imprison them for life.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

You seem to underestimate the gang problem. I was in Ilobasco a few years ago and my family that lives there urged me not to go outside past 7pm because I can be a target or even kidnapped. Like wtf why do the gangs get to dictate curfew in 2017? Past nightfall you have to turn the lights off so people in the streets can't peek into your house through the metal guard rails on all the windows. It was eye opening to say the least. Since Nuevas Ideas I have only heard good things and good changes to the area from my family. There were so many people associated to the gangs that I have little sympathy for those 'innocently accused'. I would rather a few loosely incorporated get caught than let the gangs do what they want freely.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Until it's you who get wrongfully put in jail, but I get the point. I think everyone agree it's better now and also they should do everything they can to speed up the release of innocent people.

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