How to Stop A Drug Cartel
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
El Salvador used to be the murder capital of the world. Now it's arguably as safe as Canada. In 2019 Nayib Bukele became president, and initiated a draconian crackdown on drug cartels, suspending the Constitution and civil liberties. It knocked gangs out of neighborhoods, but flirted with tyranny to do so. Was the trade worth it? Peter Gietl of Frontier Magazine joins to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and I'm not very good at watching cop shows. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm just too much of a stickler for rule of law to overlook some of the shady |
| 0:26.8 | stuff. You know what I'm talking about, right? Our hero, a cop or a DEA agent or someone with the FBI, he finally catches the bad guy and the bad guy is a real bad dude. |
| 0:41.0 | And our hero knows it, and we the viewer know it and the bad guy knows it. |
| 0:45.6 | And when he corners the bad guy that guy smirks and he says go ahead and arrest me |
| 0:51.7 | I'll be out in a week. |
| 0:55.0 | And the good guy shoots him. |
| 0:57.0 | You've seen this before, right? I'm struggling to recall a specific series, |
| 1:02.0 | but I feel like I've seen some variation of this dozens of times. |
| 1:07.0 | Our hero knows there's a mole in the police department or the judge is corrupt or the person is just so odious that they need to be killed rather than go to jury |
| 1:18.4 | and so rather than letting a villain potentially escape through a sclerotic system, he clocks him. I really enjoy gritty |
| 1:26.7 | Don Winslow novels and that sort of thing happens in them all the time. The cops not only know that the drug lord is an evil dude they know other |
| 1:35.8 | cops in their precinct and at the state capital are on his payroll so they don't |
| 1:40.3 | namzy pamzy the king pen and read him as Miranda lights they kick down the door and they shoot him in the face they deal with a problem rather than let it get caught up in a dysfunctional system. |
| 1:51.0 | I like those books they they're fun, but it always bothers me. What if a |
| 1:57.4 | cop has his facts wrong and he executes an innocent man? What if the cop isn't a good guy at all? What if he's just a petty |
| 2:04.7 | tyrant and he abuses his power? But his position gives him the latitude to do it. |
| 2:09.6 | It always seems to me that the cop has an obligation to cuff the bad guy, send him to jail, |
| 2:17.0 | and then if he sneers and says I'll be out in a week, say, |
| 2:20.0 | It's my job to apprehend you. It's somebody else's job to convict you. |
| 2:25.0 | Only say that in a cooler way, maybe with a catchphrase. |
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