I'm Job Bachelor with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College.

This is the year of democracy.

Many, many elections across the globe, some free and transparent, some falsely projected as democracies.

I would say that we're going to start with an example that I can't tell

whether it's this or that. That would be El Salvador.

Naim Buchelae is a maverick, his investment in Bitcoin at near the top of the market gave him a bad time for the plunge of the market. But now that it's's returned he's feeling very confident

changed the constitution or at least the opinion of the constitution that you cannot

succeed yourself and he's running well ahead of reality for his re-election based upon security, jailing tens of thousands

of young people as suspect drug members.

I understand that that is a problem that everybody in Salvador was was

troubled with for many years but the size of the human. It's odd business to call that democracy.

Professor, the news here is not Bukale running ahead.

It's that Reuters is reporting that Costa Rica is following a similar path in that it's making mass arrests and treating young people

as all suspect. Is this a trend that we're seeing in Central America or is

the are these just one off?

Well certainly John note one of the common elements is that with you know increased drug

flows and in other criminal activities whether it's human trafficking with massive numbers of immigrants

in various other sectors like illegal mining.

We've had across the America's increase in insecurity. It affects Mexico, it affects Costa Rica,

once a relatively prosperous and nonviolent state. It has affected Ecuador as we've seen.

Again, another once relatively prosperous nonviolent state.

And in that, you know, the arguably greatest success numerically has been El Salvador, which went from 104 murders per 100,000 and high levels of

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