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The John Batchelor Show

#ELSALVADOR: #PERU: Bukele landslide: #Panama drought. #Ecuador subsidies. Machu Picchu protest.#NEWWORLDREPORT: LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH PROFESSOR EVAN ELLIS, U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE STRATEGIC STUDIES INSTITUTE. @REVANELLIS #NEWWORLDREPORTELLIS

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

0:07.0

Naeib Ukele, the president of a very small state but a critical state for its success against the gangs.

0:17.8

This is El Salvador's and Salvador election momentarily will produce what I'm told is a landslide for

0:24.1

Bukele a Maverick president. He's young. He appears in public with his baseball cap

0:30.0

turned around. He bought an enormous amount of Bitcoin before the crash. He has plans to use a

0:37.3

volcano, an active volcano, to power the mining of Bitcoin?

0:43.0

I don't know where that project is,

0:44.9

but it's quite fantastic.

0:46.1

It reminds me of how Graham Green could enjoy this as a novel.

0:50.0

In addition to the fact, he seems to have detained at some point tens of thousands.

0:55.8

The number is very high of young people.

0:59.0

Some associated with the cartel, some just on the wrong side of the street when the police came through.

1:04.0

They're being held against their wishes.

1:06.0

I don't know their status, but there have been photographs of brutality or what appears to be

1:11.0

dehumanization in the prisons.

1:14.0

However, the crime rate is dropped, the murder rate is dropped,

1:18.0

the landslide effect is very much representation of law and order in the streets of San Salvador.

1:24.4

And there's even talk that other presidents in Central America

1:28.5

bothered by these same powerful cartels are following the model I believe Costa Rica is

1:33.7

mentioned in that. Professor what do we make of Bouquet what does Washington

1:39.4

make of Bouquetle? Thank you. Well, as you pointed out from the perspective of Salvadorians, going back to the legacy

1:49.5

of violence which existed during the Civil War, which existed after the Civil War.

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