"The country once known for having the world’s highest murder rate now has the world’s highest incarceration rate."
Homicide down 92%
90% approval
44% decline migration to US
El Salvador won its war on crime. "Rights groups" and criminals hit hardest. https://t.co/YJdx7IPFDEwsj.com/articles/the-c…
Ecuador has seen its murder rate quadruple between 2019 and 2022.
Local mayor: “It’s simple, just copy him. Do what Bukele’s doing."
The rest of Latin America is waking up.
Children can play outside without parents asking permission from gangs. Businesses no longer pay extortion.
Delivery man no longer has his tips stolen from him.
This is what "human rights" groups fight against.
An "indigenous spiritual leader" whose son is admittedly a member of MS-13 doesn't approve.
"In another video, police officers smash headstones at a cemetery to eliminate gang insignia on the graves of dead members."
Love it. These scumbags got to terrorize the country and then were honored for it in death.
Bukele is even tough on dead criminals.
"Rights groups said the government should boost spending on social programs for young people and on gangster rehabilitation, instead of focusing on punitive measures and mass incarceration."
Lol, these people are a cancer.
"Extortion had become so institutionalized that Ramirez said a bank asked him for detailed information on payments to gangs when he once applied for a business loan." 3K transport workers killed in 20 yrs.
This is just amazing. Society tolerated this until one man sad enough.
I wrote about Bukele's success here.
Left-wing ideas about the causes and solutions to crime are just wrong. People need to stop listening to them. richardhanania.com/p/the-midwit-m…
It gets better. Bukele sent prisoners to smash the headstones.
Now normal people can even use the cemetery, because the gang members aren’t gathering around smoking a blunt for their fallen homie. https://t.co/yiZl48DNFSbbc.com/news/world-lat…
This guy was sued by his own firm for falsely inflating his role as “Head of Macro,” misusing confidential information to promote his own fund, breaching debt obligations, and defaming the firm to investors.
Yes, it's unsurprising that Trump brought him into the party.
He eventually admitted sharing confidential information and paid the costs of the lawsuit.
He called himself "Head of Macro," a position that didn't exist. The company says he was hired as a Research Analyst and then fired for poor performance. Fishback has now reinvented himself as a MAGA influencer.
There's a human preference for light skin. It shows up almost everywhere and predates colonialism. Indians and blacks are the darkest groups Americans are exposed to or interact with in any significant degree.
But blacks, in addition to the historical guilt, have traits many Americans like. They're good at sports, good with women, and charming enough to be actors and entertainers.
US-India relationship is being harmed because Pakistan is more willing to kiss up to Trump, and Modi has too much pride to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize when he didn’t do anything.
Mr. Trump contends that he used trade as leverage to get the two sides to stop fighting. After these enticements and warnings, he said, “all of a sudden they said, ‘I think we will stop’” the fighting.
Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts released! See here for thread on the most interesting parts. 1/n
Ghislaine is asked whether Epstein ever received money from any intelligence agency, including Mossad. She replies that not as far as she knows and she would be surprised if he did.
Epstein started taking testosterone in the late 1990s. But he was not on any other substances.
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
How to think about immigration. You should be paranoid about the possibility that the US rejects geniuses. One brilliant entrepreneur can or inventor can carry a lot of dead weight. Almost all immigration is good, but this would be true even if it wasn't. richardhanania.com/p/exchange-wit…
Earlier I discussed Casey Means, Trump's nominee for Surgeon General, and her mystical and quack beliefs.
I've looked into her story about how she left her residency. It's very strange, and indicates that there's something that we don't yet know.
Means says she was in an otolaryngology residency and almost finished, but she instead decided to quit because her surgical residency didn't focus on nutrition enough. Isn't that something she would have known well before 4 years of residency, on top of medical school?
I think the real reason was she was unfit. Look at her cohort. The other two doctors went straight through their residency normally. Means, in contrast, had a one month gap between June-July 2018. I don't know what can explain this, but it indicates something abnormal happened.