1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: When Wara's peace and everything we know is backwards, how 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: do we even know what truth is? 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 2: Well, they say that history is written by the victor. 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: It sort of means that whoever tells you the story 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: can give you whatever definition of that story that they want. However, 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: somewhere in between both sides of the story lies the truth. 7 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: And I want to get to that. And I think 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: if you open your mind, you think about things critically, 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: you can start to see that I'm talking about what 10 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: just happened down in South America that is a shining 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: example to the entire world of exactly what could happen 12 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: with almost a snap of a finger if we so wanted. 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: What am I talking about exactly? We're talking about President 14 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,319 Speaker 1: Bukeley of El Salvador, who was just re elected as 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: president with overwhelming numbers. And when I say overwhelming numbers, 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: I mean overwhelming numbers. Let's just put this into perspective. 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: We're going into an election cycle here in the United States. 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: We have president, the current president, Joe Biden, with less 19 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: than a thirty percent approval rate in less than thirty 20 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: percent of the people like the president, which I don't 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: even see how it's that high. However, that's what it 22 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: is now. A lot of those people just finally blindly 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: vote down party lines, I suppose. But that's just on 24 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: the Democratic side. On the Republican side, it's not much different. 25 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: We have, I guess, at this point, the top Republican 26 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: contender to Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, who just got beat 27 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: by nobody in the Nevada primary. What I mean nobody. 28 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: They literally wrote on the ballot none of these people, 29 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: and that god, I believe, like sixty six percent of 30 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: the vote. So she literally got beat by nobody. So 31 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: it's happening on both sides. And it's no wonder in 32 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: the United States. I just saw today the American people 33 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: trust and support the government twenty percent. Only twenty percent 34 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: of Americans trust or support the government. And it's no 35 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: wonder why the country's fallen part a. Crime is at 36 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: all time highs, tax at all time highs, the debt 37 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: is astronomical, inflation is rising, and no matter what it 38 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: seems the people want, the leaders in Congress, the Senators, 39 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: the congressman, etc. They don't seem to care. As a 40 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: matter of fact, they continually tell us that misinformation, malinformation, 41 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: White Christian nationalists are the biggest problem that we have, 42 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: But yet most people are concerned. 43 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 2: About the immigration problem. 44 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: They continue to tell us that Ukraine or Israel is 45 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: our biggest concern, but yet most people are worried that 46 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: they can't afford their bills. And at a time when 47 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: we're worried that we can't even afford our bills, and 48 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: we're worried about the situation down at the border, they 49 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 1: just decide to Ramrod and inflate a border security bill 50 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: through which basically did nothing to secure the border, but 51 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: instead gave ninety six billion dollars to Ukraine, Israel, and 52 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: Hamas in that bill. What you're hearing it was. In 53 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: my opinion, it was a tool. And I don't want 54 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: to go on about this bill, but I believe this 55 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: bill was just a political tool for the election. They 56 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: wanted to throw this bill, which they called a border 57 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: security bill, and it was so bad. It was worse 58 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: than what we have now, which is nothing. It was 59 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: worse than what we even have now, which of course 60 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: it got shot down. Of course it did like there's 61 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: no way that could ever be approved. But now President 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: Biden can run. As he said just on TV, I 63 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: didn't pull the clip for this, but he said that 64 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: he is going to talk about that NonStop from now 65 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: until November. How Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans decided 66 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: they didn't want border security, but that's not what it 67 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: really was. And we know that because all of the money, 68 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: if you took time to dig into this, all that 69 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: money was earmarked to go, like I said, to Ukraine, 70 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,839 Speaker 1: Israel and Hamas. Now as that bill was shut down, 71 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: they decided, well, let's just go and give the money 72 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: to them anyway and said no, I think ninety six. 73 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 2: Billion or ninety eight billion is going to them. 74 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: So at a time when public interest is done, we 75 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: don't care about Ukraine anymore. 76 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: We have our own problems. We want the or secure. 77 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: We don't want inflation to continue raging. But what are 78 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: they gonna do. They're gonna print another one hundred billion 79 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: dollars and give it to other countries. And when we 80 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: give to other countries, let me just think about this. 81 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: For example, the money going to Ukraine. 82 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: Is gone. I mean, Ukraine is not winning the war. 83 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: The money going to Israel. Israel has a lower debt 84 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: to GDP than the United States does. 85 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 2: Why does that go? 86 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: So it's no wonder that the people in America don't 87 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 1: support the government. Now back to the topic at hand, 88 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: we're witnessing something very interesting. We're witnessing a bright spot. 89 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: It's one of the many signs that constantly points to 90 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: that shows that the pendulum of the world is swinging 91 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: back and forth. And of course that's President Bouquet lead 92 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: down in El Salvador. Now, he's done nothing short of 93 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 1: a miracle. I mean, the way that he's been able 94 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: to turn the country around is nothing short of a miracle. 95 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: It should literally be in textbooks and every leader, every 96 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: politician in every city, every county, every state, every country 97 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: should be paying attention to exactly what he's done. I'm 98 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: gonna break it down for you. But he was just 99 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: re elected. When I say it was just re elected, 100 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the whole backstory. You can 101 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: understand this. I was recently speaking at a conference up 102 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: in Vancouver and went out to dinner the first night 103 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: of the event and somebody said, Mark, what's going on 104 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: in El Soebigny to do? 105 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 2: Pay attention? 106 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: What do you think about Bouchayley? And let's say that 107 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: I've done a little bit more research. I'm a little 108 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: bit more educated than it was at that point. So 109 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 1: I'm gonna break it down for you, but let's just 110 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: give you the highlights for a minute first. So Boukayley 111 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: has done a lot of things which turned the most 112 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: dangerous country in the world to the safest country in 113 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: the world in record time, at a time when violence 114 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: is sweeping across the United States are once you know, 115 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: beautiful cities I've now turned into homeless encampments with NonStop 116 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: theft happening all the story. As a matter of fact, 117 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: I don't really go to the store, but my wife does. 118 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: My wife is telling me how even here. I didn't 119 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: realize this. I thought it was going to happen in 120 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 1: the cities. But even in our stores here, like everything's 121 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: locked up, and what an inconvenience it is for her 122 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: that she can't see the inventory that she wants. She 123 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: has to get somebody to come unlock the cabinets for 124 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: all the time. I mean, this is the state where 125 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: it ran. We saw just this week in Oakland we 126 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: have in and out Burger had to close down. I mean, 127 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: shops are closing down, restaurants are closing down because of 128 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: the violence. Apple stores are getting raided, non stop. But 129 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 1: yet here we have the most dangerous country in the 130 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: world flipped to be the most the safest country in 131 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: the world. Now, he had to do a lot of things. 132 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: I want to document this for you. We'll go through it, 133 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 1: but I just want to set this up. He had 134 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: to go through some extraordinary measures in order to get 135 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: this done, and so of course the whole world looked 136 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: at him like he was some authoritarian. And I guess 137 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: the saying is hard times create strong men, and that's 138 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: exactly what happened. Elsavor has gone through some extremely hard 139 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: times and it needed a strong man to come up 140 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: and do something about it. Now, if you understand that 141 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: I've talked about that many times, it's from the Fourth Turning. 142 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,119 Speaker 1: It's also known as generational theory, which is basically, hard 143 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: times create strong men. Strong men create great times, but 144 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: then great times create weak men, and weak men create 145 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: hard times, and then it starts over. And if you 146 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: think about this, think about the weak men that we have, 147 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, think about the weak men that we 148 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: have like Justin Trudeau or Macron or any of these 149 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: new leaders. If you will, think about these weak men 150 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: and the times they've created, the hard times that we've 151 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: created and then look at somebody like El Salvador's President Bukeley, 152 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: who steps up and is a hard man, a strong man, 153 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: and it took strong results. And so it's no wonder 154 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: that the rest of the world looks at them and says, oh, 155 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: how dare they do something like this? And so Bookeley 156 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: to address this, he decided, Hey, here's what we're gonna do. 157 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna step down out of power because it would 158 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: be understandable. It's understandable, but it's typically the way it goes, 159 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: sort of an evolution that once somebody gets powered, I 160 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: don't want to let go of it, and they continue 161 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: to centralize that power sty have more and more of it, 162 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: and they do become a dictator. It's certainly a risk, 163 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: and this is something I discussed at the dinner a 164 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: few weeks ago. It's certainly a risk that he could 165 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: do that now. He's not there now, but it certainly 166 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: a risk. So in order to sort of put that 167 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: rumor to rest, he decided that he would step down, 168 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: remove himself from office, and then see if the people 169 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: wanted him back, and he would go through a democratic election. 170 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happened. 171 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: And that's sort of the topic of this conversation right now, 172 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: is that he just won in the biggest landslide in 173 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: the history of representative governments, at least as far as 174 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: I know, and the media isn't even talking about it. 175 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: So suppose at a time when democracy, democracy, democracy, we're 176 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: trying to protect democracy by shutting down access to information 177 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: and free speech. We're trying to promote democracy like in Ukraine, 178 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: which is probably the even bigger dictator country than El 179 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: Salvador was, at a time when it's democracy, democracy, democracy, 180 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: we literally watched democracy play out. 181 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 2: We watched the leader step. 182 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: Down, have an election and won by the biggest landslide 183 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: and history of representative governments. And like I said, it's 184 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: completely blacked out by the military. 185 00:08:59,240 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 2: Now. 186 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: Part of the reason why I believe is because they 187 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: don't want you to see that this is possible. He 188 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: won by locking up criminals and thugs. Interesting, he won 189 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: by cleaning up his country. He won by, you know, 190 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: trying to do right by the people. I'm going to 191 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,599 Speaker 1: break all this down for you, but I'm setting this 192 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: up a little bit. Winning by eighty five percent of 193 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: the vote, which is just amazing, but of course people 194 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 1: are calling him a threat to democracy. If you're just 195 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 1: tuning in, you listening to the Mark mass Show, we're 196 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: breaking down the bright spot in the world that demonstrates 197 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: how the world is changing and. 198 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 2: For the better. It's the message of hope, don't go away, 199 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 2: He'll be back, all. 200 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: Right, Welcome back. If you're just tuning in your listening 201 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: to the Mark Moss Show, we're talking about what just 202 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: happened down in Central America. That is the model for 203 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: the world. Like I said, every single politician, whether it's 204 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: your city council, your county, your state, or you're a 205 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: government leader, country leader, you should be paying attention. However, 206 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: they're paying attention, but they're trying to bury it because 207 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: they don't want you to understand what happened. And as 208 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: I said, we're basically talking about how President Buchayley was 209 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: able to turn the most dangerous country in the world 210 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,479 Speaker 1: into one of the safests. So he just got reelected 211 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: overwhelming vote eighty five percent, like the biggest sweeping, you know, 212 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: democratic election that we've seen. But yet people are calling 213 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: him a threat to democracy, which is pretty interesting. We 214 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: saw ilmar Ohan, you know, one of the people from 215 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: the squad on the extreme far left, who's from Samoya. 216 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: I believe it's like her husband is one of the 217 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: main politicians in Samoya. Go ahead and google it. Samalia 218 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: is one of the most corrupt and most dangerous countries 219 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: in the world. 220 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 2: And she is on. 221 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: The news over the last couple weeks talking about how 222 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: everything she's doing is for Samoya, how she's trying to 223 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 1: get Samoia to have influence in the United States, all of 224 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: these things, and then she went and got support to 225 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: file emotion against what else Salvorder is doing because they're 226 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: a threat to democracy. So you start to see what's 227 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: going on. Of course, the left, anything they say, it's 228 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: always going to be the opposite. When they say it's 229 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: a border of security bill, it's not a border security bill. 230 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: When Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, it was actually 231 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: to create more inflation. That's the way it works, and 232 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: that's exactly what's happening here. But anyway, this election happened. 233 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: It had massive amount a sea of people out front 234 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: cheering him on to see him take this acceptance, and 235 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: a couple of quotes that I saw him talking about 236 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: in this speech. It was obviously translated. I'm not fluent 237 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: in Spanish, but a couple of things that he talked about. 238 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 2: He said that. 239 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: He said that he was able to take El Salvador 240 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: from the most dangerous country in the world to the 241 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: safest in the entire Western hemisphere. I think Luxembourg is 242 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: about as safe as El Salvador now, so in the 243 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: entire Western hemisphere now. 244 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 2: He said. 245 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: In response to people calling him a dictator, he said 246 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: that he placed honest citizens' rights over the criminals. 247 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 2: Hmmm. 248 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: That's a novel concept, isn't it, especially in today when 249 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: we have, especially in California, but also in New York 250 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: and other very very blue states, we have basically no 251 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: criminal punishment. You can steal up to one thousand dollars. 252 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: Pretty insane. I mean, we're releasing violent criminals every single 253 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: day because you know, we don't want to make them 254 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: feel bad about themselves, and you know, we have to 255 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: respect their rights. But Bouqueta says, what about the rights 256 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: of the honest citizens that are working hard. Shouldn't their 257 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: rights matter more than criminals? And of course I'm preaching 258 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: to the choir. Of course you say that. But for 259 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: a politician to come out and say that it just 260 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: makes sense, right, Bucley said, I've talked to all the 261 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: other international organizations, I've talked to the other government officials. 262 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: He said, why do they want them. 263 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 2: To kill us? 264 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: Why do they want these violent criminals to kill us? 265 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: Why do you want to see the people of Savador's 266 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: blood spilled? And of course they don't. Look nobody wants that. 267 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: The people, the immigrants that have come to the United 268 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: States from some of these war torn countries wanted to 269 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: get away from the violence. Nobody wants to live like that. 270 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 2: And I if. 271 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: You use a rational mind, you if you ask yourself 272 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: why these policies are put in place when nobody in 273 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 1: their right mind wants them. Unfortunately, there's only a conclusion 274 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: that you can come to that's not a good one, 275 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: and it's because actually it's actually bookay Lee was on 276 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, maybe it was about a year ago, and 277 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: he said that quote, the demise of the USA has 278 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: to come from within. No external enemy can cause so 279 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: much damage as an internal operation. He continued, I am 280 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: from a third world country, and I see cities in 281 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: the US where I wouldn't want to live. Now, when 282 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: you see cities in the US eroading so fast, this 283 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: has to be by design, That's what he said. This 284 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: is from Bookayley, who turned his country a one eighty 285 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: in the opposite direction, which, of course they don't want 286 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: you to see. Now, what happens when that happens, Well, 287 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: it turns out that all of a sudden people are happy. 288 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: It turns out that now all of a sudden, people 289 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: have hope, and there's energy, and now they're starting to 290 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: provide value to each other's starting to build businesses. It 291 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: turns out kids are now going to schools instead of 292 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: entering gangs. It looks like now we're building them an 293 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: educated class to take El sovereign to the next level. 294 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: What happens when that happens, Well, now we're seeing massive 295 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: amounts of investment capital coming into El Salvador. As a 296 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: matter of fact, Moody's rating said election results in El 297 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: Salvador indicate approval of President Bukeley's anti crime agenda, and 298 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: it's a positive credit rating. So Moody's is downgrading the 299 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: credit of the United States, and they're upgrading the credit 300 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: of El Salvador. 301 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 2: Do you see what's happening? 302 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: Of course, no country can survive without law and order, 303 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: nobody wants to live in that. Nobody can build a life, 304 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: nobody can build their private property. No one can build 305 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: a business. Some one can build a family unless there's 306 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: law and order. 307 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 2: There has to be. It just makes sense, all right. 308 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: Now, let's dig in and see exactly how he did this. 309 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: I came across this article called Bukeley's War for Peace. 310 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: It was written by Benjamin Braddock just a couple of 311 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: days ago. Here. It's pretty interesting. So if we go 312 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: back a couple of points that I want to pull 313 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: out here. In twenty nineteen, that's when Boukayley took over 314 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: as president of l Salvador, and at the time he 315 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: came into a staggering challenge. I mean, the country was 316 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: in ruins, the most dangerous country in the world, as 317 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: he's saying, and he had only been in office for 318 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: a month. The countries in shambles, and all of a sudden, 319 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: the country was put into international headlines because a Salvadoras 320 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: father and his daughter were trying to get into the 321 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: United States and they drowned. 322 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 2: In the Rio Grande trying to get in. 323 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: Now, immigration activists all over we're saying, you know how 324 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: dare the US make it so hard and this tragedy. 325 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: It's all Trump's fault for endagering migrants. You know, we 326 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: should allow the asylum seekers to get in easier. It's 327 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: Trump's fault all these things. Now, that's what Pauls typically do. 328 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: They try to shift the blame to somebody else. But 329 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: Bouquet Lee did the opposite. He said, quote, we can 330 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: speak blame to any other country, but what about our 331 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: own blame? I mean, what country did they flee? Did 332 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: they flee the United States? No, they fled Al Salvador. 333 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: They fled our country. It's our fault. 334 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: Wow. 335 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: You see the first step to change in your life 336 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: is to take responsibility for it. As long as you're 337 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: continuing to blame other people and push the blame onto 338 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: somebody else, you're never going to get the growth. And 339 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: as a brand new president who just took over and 340 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: shouldn't even take responsibility for that, he's not the one 341 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: that brought that country to that stage over one hundred 342 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: years or whatever it took to get there. But yet 343 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: he took responsibility. He said, why would we blame Trump 344 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: or the United States or any other country? 345 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 2: What about us? Why did they leave? 346 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: Our own country. It's pretty amazing, and that is what 347 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: a real leader does. Like I said, he could have 348 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: blamed anybody else for this. All right, So this was 349 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. This article is great. We'll link it 350 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,399 Speaker 1: to it in the show notes down below. It talks 351 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: a lot about how the gangs and how the violence 352 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 1: got so bad in El Salvador and hand hint hint. 353 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's because the United States. 354 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 1: These Al Salvador gangs grew in Los Angeles. They continue 355 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: to get worse and worse and worse. They grew through 356 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: the prison system and then they all got exported and 357 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: shipped right down to El Salvador. So the United States 358 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: fostered them, culturedom allowed them to grow, allowed them to 359 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: become the most dangerous, bloodthirsty and yes, even a Satanic gang. 360 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: They did lots of Satanic rituals and sacrifices and things 361 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: like that. 362 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 2: But it was in the US that they grew. 363 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: In the US that, like I said, they were cultured 364 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: and grown, and then they were exported and sent right 365 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: down to El Salvador. 366 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 2: All right. 367 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: So that's where we're at. If you're just tuning in 368 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 1: listening to the Mark Mass show. I'm talking about one 369 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: of the most one of the biggest turnarounds that we've 370 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: seen in any country, and it is a bright spot. 371 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: What happens is you're typically looking for things that work, 372 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,479 Speaker 1: and you do more of those, and you look for 373 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: things that don't work and you do less of those. 374 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 2: That's typically the way that it works. 375 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: However, in the United States we seem to be doing 376 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: the opposite. But Elsavador is given us a picture of 377 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: the way forward. I'll be back with more after a 378 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: very short break. 379 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 2: Don't go away, We're back, all. 380 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: Right, Welcome back. If you just tune in, you're listening 381 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: to the Mark Mass Show. I'm always talking about the 382 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: way the world is changing, how the world is decentralizing, 383 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: how the grip of centralization or globalism is being broken. 384 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 1: We look out through the lens of politics, finance, and technology, 385 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: and this story that we're talking about today is a 386 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 1: perfect example of how the world is changing right now 387 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: in front of us. And while things look dark and 388 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: scary and i we're definitely going in the wrong direction 389 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: and lots of places, there's lots of places that are 390 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: going in the right direction and give us massive amounts 391 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: of hope and so you know, they say it's always 392 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: darkest before the dawn, and unfortunately, I think there's still 393 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: more pain ahead, specifically in the West, and partly because 394 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: what I said in the beginning with the generational theory, 395 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: hard times create strong men. That's what's happening in El Salvador. 396 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: We're still in the last stage what would be called 397 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: the fourth turning, which is bad times or bad weak 398 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: men created bad times. Anyway, back to the story down here. 399 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: So twenty fifteen was the year that El Salvador attained 400 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: the status as the most dangerous country in the world, 401 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,400 Speaker 1: and it was also the year that Mukayley was elected 402 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: as the mayor of San Salvador, San Savador being one 403 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: of the biggest cities there. By the way, I'm going 404 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: out to El Salvador in about a month. If he'd 405 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: love to come down and see me. I'm going to 406 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: put a link in the show notes down below. We'll 407 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: ahead and put that down there. You should come check 408 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: it out. But anyway, so he became the mayor's Sun Salvador, 409 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: and then he started running. He wanted to move up 410 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: to become president in the twenty nineteen presidential election. He 411 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: was already pulling higher than any of the other potential 412 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: presidential candidates. But the problem is the political parties sort 413 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: of had the power. There was the f MLN and 414 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: the ar NA Arena, and they basically teamed up together 415 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: to block his participation in the election. They wanted to 416 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 1: keep him out, of course they did. They wanted the 417 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: status quo. The problem with most of these corrupt countries. 418 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 2: Which is the most of the world, and I mean 419 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 2: the United. 420 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: States is pretty corupt as well, is that they don't 421 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: want things to change. They need to continue to hang 422 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: on to power. So of course they try to block anybody, 423 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: and unfortunately it's because they're looking out for their own 424 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: self interest and not for the greater good of the country. 425 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: And really, you know, there's a saying I learned a 426 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: long time ago. The fish stinks from the head down. 427 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: And basically that means that it starts at the top 428 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: and then it trickles down to the rest. If you 429 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 1: look into like running a company, a business, you have 430 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: to set culture for that business, and that culture has 431 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: to be set from the top. The president, the CEO, 432 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: the founder has to decide what that culture will be, 433 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: and they're the ones that influence it. If they want 434 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: to have excellence and hard work and customer care, then 435 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: that's what the company will have. But unfortunately, you know, 436 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: we've seen that shift in the United States and all 437 00:20:58,359 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: around the world back to the hard times. 438 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 2: Strong men. 439 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: If you look at the founding of the United States, 440 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: the founding fathers, they literally risk their lives for the 441 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: betterment of future generations, you know, planting a tree under 442 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: which they'd never sit under that shade, so to speak. Right, 443 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: they were literally sacrificed in life. And even a hundred 444 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: years ago, people were moving here from other countries to 445 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: have better lives for their kids, things that they would 446 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: never see. They work two three jobs so their kids 447 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: could have a better life. But unfortunately, today, unlike our 448 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: founding fathers who sacrifice their lives for future generations, we 449 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: have politicians that are only out to enrich themselves every 450 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: twist and turn they can. And unfortunately, the double edged 451 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: sword of freedom has allowed, unfortunately many politicians in the United 452 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: States to enrich themselves by selling the country down the river, 453 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: and of course they don't want that system to change, 454 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: and of course then that trickles down through society. So 455 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: if the leaders at the top are only out for 456 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: short term wins and gains, and they're willing to let 457 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: greed drive them and sell out their own country and 458 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: basically steal. Then what do you think everybody else does? 459 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: And unfortunately, the best way to get rich today is 460 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: through gambling and theft, and that's exactly what we're seeing 461 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened in. 462 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 2: L Salvador. 463 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: However, President Muchaylee was able to get through. I'm not 464 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: going to take you through all the twists and turns 465 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: in this, but he was able to get through and 466 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: actually was was elected as president. That was June first, 467 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and on June twentyeth he took his acceptance 468 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: speech to a packed out crowd. He was the people's favorite, 469 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: but the establishment didn't want them in there. Now, he 470 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: put together a grand plan, a territorial control plan is 471 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: what he called it. And I believe there was like 472 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: four phases. We'll go through the real quick. So Phase 473 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 1: one of the plan was called preparation. It involved concentrating 474 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: on this disrupting the finances of the gangs, and taking 475 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: back control of historic city and town centers in twelve 476 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: key municipalities. Now again, it was one of the most 477 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: dangerous countries in the world run by these gangs. Now, 478 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: basically what was happening is MS thirteen gangs had control 479 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,239 Speaker 1: over the whole country and the country, you know, it's 480 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 1: a poor country, and so they had these like little 481 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,239 Speaker 1: villages and pueblos or whatever you want to call them 482 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: down there, and basically these gangs would run every one 483 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: of them. And from what I hear from the people, 484 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: have been down there a couple of times. From what 485 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: I hear from the people, the locals couldn't even leave 486 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 1: the towns, come and go without paying basically attacks to 487 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: these gangs, and they would take a large percentage of 488 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: their income. I mean, they're so broke, they barely make 489 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: any money as it is, and these gangs would take 490 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: a large percentage of that. They would get robbed riding 491 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: the buses and things like that. Basically, they are just terrorized. 492 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: They were living under oppression and fear all the time. 493 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,239 Speaker 1: And these gangs had become so powerful that they had 494 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 1: infiltrated their way into the court system and even into 495 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: the government. And so the first phase was to start 496 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 1: attacking their finances, take back control of the city and 497 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 1: the town centers. Like I said, in these twelve twelve 498 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: key areas. He had two thousand police officers from the 499 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: National Civil Police and three thousand soldiers of the Armed 500 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 1: forces coming in and the prisons were put on lockdowns, 501 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,040 Speaker 1: with cell phone signals around the prisons blocked. Why do 502 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: have cell phones? It's not allowed, you know, they're not 503 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: allowed to have cell phones, but yet they all do 504 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: in the United States as well, they had them in 505 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: El Salvador. He locked the prisons down and blocked cell 506 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: phone signals. 507 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 2: Well, it seems like a pretty good idea. 508 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: Why don't we do that here? Why wasn't that done earlier? 509 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, do you understand? 510 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 1: Phase two was called Opportunity. Opportunity was an effort conducted 511 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: in parallel with other operational phases, and it focused It 512 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 1: focused on positive change. It focused on offering youth a 513 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: different path. Don't go with the gangs. Instead, let's create 514 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: this social fabric, schools, sports centers, educational opportunities, vocational training. 515 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: Let's give these kids something to aspire to. Let's give 516 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: them training, Let's give them something else other than just gangs. 517 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: Sounds like a pretty good plan. Phase number three Modernization, Now, 518 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: this involved equipping the military and the police force to deal. 519 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 2: With the gangs. 520 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: This meant updating their modern weapons, getting them you know, 521 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 1: proper vehicles, body armor, helicopters, night vision, because the gangs 522 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: are very well equipped in Mexico. Now, these gangs are 523 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: like trillionaires. They have better weapons than most militaries. And 524 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 1: I mean down in Mexico and a lot of places 525 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: I go, the police. 526 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 2: Don't even have cars. 527 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: The police just like stand on corners. But yet the 528 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: narcos they have the best weapons you can have. And 529 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: so that's what's happening down in El Salvadors. They had 530 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: to equip the military with better equipment, got one hundred 531 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: and nine million dollar loan in order to do that, 532 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: and so he was sort of ramping up on Then 533 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 1: February six, Bukeley invoked Article one sixty seven of El 534 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: Salvador's Constitution to convene an extraordinary session of the Legislative Assembly, 535 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,479 Speaker 1: and he called in the citizens to join him at 536 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: the Legislative Assembly. So he got all the people because 537 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: he cared about the consent of the people that he governed, 538 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: unlike what we have going on in the United States today. 539 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: And he got all the people to come in and 540 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: he asked the crowd, I want to ask you to 541 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: let me enter into the blue hall of the Legislat 542 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: Assembly to say a prayer and that God give us 543 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: wisdom for the steps we're going to take, and then 544 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 1: the decision will be up to you. Do you authorize me? 545 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: He asked them a question, and the crowd started chanting 546 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: and roaring yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, get in the 547 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: consent and the will of the people to go and 548 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: do something, and even more importantly saying that he wants 549 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: to go and ask God about it, giving it up 550 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: to a higher power. Now, whether you believe in God 551 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: or whatever god you believe in, I think it's pretty 552 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: understandable that if you give respect, if you believe in 553 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: a higher power, you're probably going to be a better 554 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: leader than if you think you're the God themselves. There's 555 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: a lot of religions that I don't agree with, but 556 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: we pretty much for the most part, would agree that 557 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: if people lived by this universal code, things will be 558 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: better off. Then that's exactly what President Buchley did. He 559 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 1: said that he asked God and God told him patience, patience, patience. 560 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: But when he came out to people are like, no, 561 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: we don't want patience, and he said, no, we're going 562 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: to do this patiently, and we're going to do it democratically, 563 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: and that's exactly what's happening. Through the democratic process, he 564 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: was able to mobilize another fourteen fourteen hundred soldiers to 565 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: go fight the gangs. And a year after this all started, 566 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: his party succeeded, took one by overwhelming votes. And now 567 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: Bukeley was free to govern with so full support of 568 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: the legislator legislature. And this story is just getting going. 569 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 1: I want to tell you exactly what happened after this 570 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: next step happened, how bitcoin came into play, and again 571 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: how this can be a model for the rest of 572 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: the world. If you're just tune in your listening to 573 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: the Mark Mass Show talking about the bright spot in 574 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,360 Speaker 1: the world that should be an example for the rest 575 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 1: of us. We'll be back with more in a minute. 576 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 1: Don't go away, all right, welcome back. If you just 577 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: tune in, you're listening to the Mark mass Show, we're 578 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: talking about the bright spot that's going on in the world. 579 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: That should be the well, it should be the example. 580 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: It should be what every politician, city, county, state government 581 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: should be paying attention to and I'm talking about what's 582 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: going on down in El Salvador. We saw President Bouquelee 583 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: takeover El Salvador as the president a couple of years 584 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: ago now I guess about five years ago, and has 585 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: turned it within five years from I think the most 586 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: that he says the most dangerous country in the world 587 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: to the safest country, at least in the Western hemisphere 588 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,160 Speaker 1: or potentially in the entire world. I went through sort 589 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: of the whole plan of how they did that, and 590 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: we talked about I'm getting up to speed. So finally 591 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: we're at phase four of this territorial control plan that 592 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: he put in. And this is an important piece because again, 593 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: the country was so violent and it was under such 594 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: control this by the gangs that there was areas that 595 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: were literally no go zones that were so dangerous and 596 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: were so controlled. 597 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 2: By gangs that they couldn't even go there. 598 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: I remember in high school one of my best friends 599 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: family had come from South Africa. I had a couple 600 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: friends from South Africa and they had left there when 601 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: things got bad. Their families had moved over here. Remember 602 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: one of my friends after high school went back and 603 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: he worked as a fireman over there. And you know, 604 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: in South Africa, and he came, he would come back 605 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: periodically and we'd kind of talk about what life was 606 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: like living over there, and I remember him telling me 607 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: stories about how there were these no go zones where 608 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: literally even if the police were, say like in a 609 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: high speed pursuit or something like that, there were certain areas, 610 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: like certain neighborhoods or regions that the police wouldn't even 611 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: go into because. 612 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 2: It was so bad. And I couldn't believe. 613 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: It at that, Like I was young, and I just 614 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: didn't understand the way the world worked, I guess at 615 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: that point, but it was, it was it was unbelievable. 616 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 2: For me to think about that. 617 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that's the way South Africa still is today, and 618 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: it was exactly how El Salvador was at that time, 619 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: or the Sales Salvator South America, South Africa. It's the 620 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: same way South Africa still is today, unfortunately, and it's 621 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: the way that El Salvador was as well. And so 622 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: the part phase four of the plan was to basically 623 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: get the government to re establish security control of these 624 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: no go zones that the police had previously found it 625 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: difficult or impossible to even operate in you know, in 626 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: these barrios, things like that taxis had to pay extortion 627 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: fees when they entered and left the barrio. Little ladies 628 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: with papoosa stands, which are just like these little like 629 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: sort of bread sandwiches that they make down there. Little 630 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: ladies of the papoosa stands had to pay gangs a percentage 631 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: of their receipts or they would see their sons disappear. 632 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: Men who could not cross certain geographic boundaries to buy 633 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: food or they'd be killed. Right, they couldn't. They couldn't 634 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: even go feed their families. They had to go send 635 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,479 Speaker 1: their wives to do it. That's how things were at 636 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: this point. And so this phase of the plan was 637 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: to take away the gang's ownership of these spaces and 638 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: allow the citizens to free the work and then come 639 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: and go as they please without fear. Sounds like a 640 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: pretty good deal, right, But I mean, we're starting to 641 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: see this in the United States. There's plenty of places 642 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: in some of these big cities that you shouldn't be going. 643 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: People getting beat up and mugged and robbed and even 644 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: killed on the subways or downtown cities. Now, as part 645 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: of this phase, a new goal was also announced to 646 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: double the size of the armed forces from twenty thousand 647 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: to forty thousand troops and the operation, you know, in 648 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: order to do this, in order to reclaim the Borrios 649 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: put the game members in a very defensive posture. All right, 650 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,479 Speaker 1: So this is pretty interesting, and of course they're going 651 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: to fight back. They're not going to go away easily. Right. 652 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: So for months, the homicidera had been very low, and 653 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: that's because they were on their back foot so to speak. Right, 654 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: They were coming after the gang so much they were 655 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: forced into hiding. But on March twenty sixth to twenty 656 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: twenty two, the gangs decided to move forward and they 657 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 1: went on a killing spree. They started targeting street vendors, 658 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: bus passengers, grocery shoppers. It was El Salvador's bloodiest day 659 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: since the civil war, and the gangs were basically trying 660 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: to send a message to the government, Look, you either 661 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: back off of us and let us have our way, 662 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: or we are going to rain down and you know, 663 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: terrorize you some more. 664 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 2: Okay. 665 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: So this was an interesting piece because a weak man, 666 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: a week president would potentially get into that, but not Buquelie. 667 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: He was a strong man and so instead of backing 668 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 1: down to what the gang's request is, he responded in 669 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,479 Speaker 1: kind or maybe even faster, and it was swift and 670 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: it was resolute. So what he basically did the next 671 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: day the National Assembly passed a state of emergency and 672 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: a state of exception. The gangs had treated the public 673 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: as hostages, right, they were terrorizing all these people, using 674 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: them as hostages. So down to the President began treating 675 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: their imprisoned homeboys in sort of the same way all 676 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,719 Speaker 1: of the home boys, the other gang members that were 677 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: in prison. He started cutting their meals, giving meal rationing. 678 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: He took their mattresses, he took their clothes away from them, 679 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: so now inmates were only able to wear underwear and 680 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: they had to sleep on concrete. And then the president 681 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: valved that if there were any more waves of gang violence, 682 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: that the imprisoned gang members would not be fed, as 683 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: he said quote, not be fed a single grain of rice. Now, 684 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: of course, people don't like this. You have all these 685 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: international NGOs, non gover organizations like the Human Rights Watch, 686 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 1: the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International, the 687 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: United Nations, you know, all of these in there saying how. 688 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 2: Dare you do this. 689 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: You can't treat people like that. And the President responded, quote, 690 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: they can take their gang members if they want, We'll 691 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: give them. 692 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 2: All of them. Of course they didn't. 693 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: Of course none of these countries wanted them. I'm guessing 694 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: the United States probably wanted a few of them. Maybe 695 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: we'll get some of them over here. But that's exactly 696 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: how he had to deal with it. And so what 697 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: happened is over the next couple of months, the war 698 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: against the gangs just intensified. Thousands more gang members were arrested, 699 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: more prison more than they could even fit into the prison. 700 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: So then Bikayley had to build new prisons. He had 701 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: to build a new one that had a capacity for 702 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: forty thousand inmates, but he rounded them up, cleaned it up, 703 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,479 Speaker 1: allowed him go into Phase five, which was a territory 704 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: control plan extractions. So now police and soldiers began encircling 705 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 1: communities and going to where all the known gang members are, 706 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: where they were hiding out, and they started doing house 707 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 1: by house searches until every single person was checked. Now 708 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: the part that a lot of people don't like, and 709 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,399 Speaker 1: I agree, I mean, unfortunately, when things get this bad, 710 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: you have to do extreme measures. I'm guessing that in 711 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: this massive dragnet that the government did, there was probably 712 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: some innocent people that might have got caught up in that, 713 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: and that's not good. I would imagine that some people 714 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,759 Speaker 1: maybe didn't get the full benefit of the doubt, maybe 715 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 1: they didn't get the full due process that they deserve, 716 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,399 Speaker 1: and that's unfortunate and I am certainly one hundred percent 717 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: for everybody's rights. The problem is, how do you fix 718 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,520 Speaker 1: a problem this extreme. The answer would be to never 719 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,240 Speaker 1: let it get that way in the first place. 720 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 2: That's the answer. 721 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,799 Speaker 1: You know, we live in a world of complex systems. 722 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: The human body is a complex system, the financial systems 723 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: a complex system. Our socio or economic world we live 724 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,840 Speaker 1: in is a complex system, and you can't just treat 725 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: individual symptoms without having unintended consequences. You know, I mostly 726 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: talk about the financial system, and so as we talk 727 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 1: about the financial system, people want say, we how can 728 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: we fix this? 729 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 2: How can we fix out? 730 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: But the problem is you fix one little thing and 731 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:13,280 Speaker 1: it causes all these other problems. And so the answer 732 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: is like, well, we should have never let it get 733 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: like this in the first place, because there's really no 734 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: good way getting out of it. I remember again, back 735 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: in high school, one of my other good friends, their 736 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: family owned a body shop, and I would I'd hang 737 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: out there sometimes on the weekends, and I remember he 738 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 1: would talk about like people would come in and see 739 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: them working on their cars and they're hitting them with hammers, 740 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,240 Speaker 1: trying to pound out panels, and the people like, WHOA, well, 741 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: what are you doing? You know, you're making it worse. 742 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: And he's like, look, man, you hit it this hard, 743 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:39,760 Speaker 1: like we had to hit hard to get it to get. 744 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 2: It back into shape. 745 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: It's sort of the what is it the saying like 746 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: you can't make a cake without breaking a few egs 747 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 1: kind of thing. And so, unfortunately, when it comes to 748 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 1: you know, again, complex systems, whether it be your health, 749 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: your body, the economic system, or a political system like this, 750 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: unfortunately there's no good swift answer. And everything in life 751 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 1: has a cost. Everything in life has trade off, and 752 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 1: you have to just trade things off. Unfortunately, that's just 753 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: the way the world works. It's not black and white 754 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 1: like that. But the outcome is is that now the 755 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 1: kids who would otherwise be growing up in environment that 756 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 1: pressure them into joining gangs now have massive opportunity. Now 757 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: instead of going to gangs. Now they have school, they 758 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: have sports now, instead of a country that's continue to 759 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,839 Speaker 1: fall further and further behind, now there's investment capital coming in. 760 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 2: Now. 761 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 1: Businesses no longer have the tax of extortion by the gangs, 762 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: so they're free to expand. Workers no longer have to 763 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,360 Speaker 1: pay extortion fees, so that's more money for them to 764 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 1: invest into their own families and to their own businesses. 765 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,960 Speaker 1: The amount of psychological relief that's come from the gangs 766 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,319 Speaker 1: being relaxed is allowing the country to flourish. 767 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 2: But yet the opposite of that what. 768 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 1: We're seeing all throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States 769 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: specifically in these major cities, it's the opposite direction. And 770 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: so the dark before the dawn, so to speak, is 771 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: we're still going in this bad direction. 772 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 2: Unfortunately. The good news is that Bouqueti was able. 773 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,280 Speaker 1: To turn this around in just a couple of short years, 774 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,919 Speaker 1: and he's showing the world how quickly he can turn 775 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,719 Speaker 1: around the world if they wanted to. Anyway, if you're 776 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,839 Speaker 1: tuning in listening to the Mark Moss Show talking about 777 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 1: the bright spot of what's going on in El Salvador 778 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: and how it could be a model, it should be 779 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 1: a model for the rest of the world. Let me 780 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: know what you think. I'd love to hear from you. 781 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 1: Hit me up at one Mark Moss on social media 782 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: and that's what I got. 783 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening.