> Cool, but you have to compare El Salvador to its peers.

Why?

He literally compared El Salvador with "major US cities"?

Anyway, El Salvador have worse statistics than many major US cities, they are in the middle of the ranking in central America, they are far off countries like Chile or Perù or Argentina that are not western countries.

Secondly: in El Salvador homicide rates went down during COVID-19, like it happened in most of the Planet, notable exception the US.

But Amnesty International (June 2022) wrote:

Amnesty International found that thousands of people are being detained without the legal requirements being met – there was no administrative or judicial arrest warrant and the person was not apprehended in flagrante delicto – purely because the authorities view them as having been identified as criminals in the stigmatizing speeches of President Bukele’s government, because they have tattoos, are accused by a third party of having alleged links to a gang, are related to someone who belongs to a gang, have a previous criminal record of some kind, or simply because they live in an area under gang control, which are precisely the areas with high levels of marginalization and that have historically been abandoned by the state.

> How much money and continuity does your state have compared to ES?

How much more money USA have compared to ES?

> Hahahahahah, maybe for you. It's the entire yearly budget deficit for El Salvador

Still small potatoes.

The Central American country's total public debt was about $24 billion in March, according to central bank data.

> These 700 million were the difference between life and death for many El Salvadorans

700 million is more than 2 time the 300 million mentioned originally.

Are you spouting off random numbers?

The assumption that it's money that would go in Salvadorans pockets is frankly silly, MOST OF ALL, because these are your allegations, not facts!

> Perhaps you could donate some "small potatoes", they really need it and it seems like you have more than enough.

I've been doing it for the past 30 years, my cousin is Salvadoran.

> I guess your investigation has turned up a new suspect?

I just trust international institutions more than a random supporter of a wannabe who wanna make El Salvador a free heaven for international criminals.

Maybe he's loved by BTC enthusiast simply because most of them are bros who love money but hate other humans and their rights...

That's why the downvotes, truth should not be told.

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El Salvador, in Brief: El Salvador joined Nicaragua in abstaining from the U.N. General Assembly’s condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine. A top U.S. official suggests international Russia sanctions will choke off cash even to Nicaragua. As El Salvador prepares to issue a billion dollars’ worth of Bitcoin Bonds, Bukele implies the Russia clampdown underscores a key use-case for the cryptocurrency: sanctions evasion.

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Other figures with links to the El Salvador government have instead been looking to play down their ties with or support for Russia and President Vladimir Putin. These include the American millionaire bitcoiner Max Keiser.

Keiser and his wife Stacy Herbert were both in El Salvador earlier this month, where they have launched an investment fund named El Zonte Capital.

Keiser is an exceptionally divisive figure in the bitcoin (BTC) community. He has amassed a considerable BTC fortune, but has drawn flak from critics in the past for his appearances on the Russian state-run English-language broadcaster RT (aka Russia Today), where he has repeatedly blasted conventional Western financial institutions as “financial terrorists” and spoken out in favor of Putin.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/el-salvador-p...

https://journalofdemocracy.org/articles/latin-america-erupts...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/12/16/el-salvador-critics-bloc...