Speaker 1: When Wara's peace and everything we know is backwards, how
Speaker 1: do we even know what truth is?
Speaker 2: Well, they say that history is written by the victor.
Speaker 1: It sort of means that whoever tells you the story
Speaker 1: can give you whatever definition of that story that they want. However,
Speaker 1: somewhere in between both sides of the story lies the truth.
Speaker 1: And I want to get to that. And I think
Speaker 1: if you open your mind, you think about things critically,
Speaker 1: you can start to see that I'm talking about what
Speaker 1: just happened down in South America that is a shining
Speaker 1: example to the entire world of exactly what could happen
Speaker 1: with almost a snap of a finger if we so wanted.
Speaker 1: What am I talking about exactly? We're talking about President
Speaker 1: Bukeley of El Salvador, who was just re elected as
Speaker 1: president with overwhelming numbers. And when I say overwhelming numbers,
Speaker 1: I mean overwhelming numbers. Let's just put this into perspective.
Speaker 1: We're going into an election cycle here in the United States.
Speaker 1: We have president, the current president, Joe Biden, with less
Speaker 1: than a thirty percent approval rate in less than thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the people like the president, which I don't
Speaker 1: even see how it's that high. However, that's what it
Speaker 1: is now. A lot of those people just finally blindly
Speaker 1: vote down party lines, I suppose. But that's just on
Speaker 1: the Democratic side. On the Republican side, it's not much different.
Speaker 1: We have, I guess, at this point, the top Republican
Speaker 1: contender to Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, who just got beat
Speaker 1: by nobody in the Nevada primary. What I mean nobody.
Speaker 1: They literally wrote on the ballot none of these people,
Speaker 1: and that god, I believe, like sixty six percent of
Speaker 1: the vote. So she literally got beat by nobody. So
Speaker 1: it's happening on both sides. And it's no wonder in
Speaker 1: the United States. I just saw today the American people
Speaker 1: trust and support the government twenty percent. Only twenty percent
Speaker 1: of Americans trust or support the government. And it's no
Speaker 1: wonder why the country's fallen part a. Crime is at
Speaker 1: all time highs, tax at all time highs, the debt
Speaker 1: is astronomical, inflation is rising, and no matter what it
Speaker 1: seems the people want, the leaders in Congress, the Senators,
Speaker 1: the congressman, etc. They don't seem to care. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, they continually tell us that misinformation, malinformation,
Speaker 1: White Christian nationalists are the biggest problem that we have,
Speaker 1: But yet most people are concerned.
Speaker 2: About the immigration problem.
Speaker 1: They continue to tell us that Ukraine or Israel is
Speaker 1: our biggest concern, but yet most people are worried that
Speaker 1: they can't afford their bills. And at a time when
Speaker 1: we're worried that we can't even afford our bills, and
Speaker 1: we're worried about the situation down at the border, they
Speaker 1: just decide to Ramrod and inflate a border security bill
Speaker 1: through which basically did nothing to secure the border, but
Speaker 1: instead gave ninety six billion dollars to Ukraine, Israel, and
Speaker 1: Hamas in that bill. What you're hearing it was. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, it was a tool. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to go on about this bill, but I believe this
Speaker 1: bill was just a political tool for the election. They
Speaker 1: wanted to throw this bill, which they called a border
Speaker 1: security bill, and it was so bad. It was worse
Speaker 1: than what we have now, which is nothing. It was
Speaker 1: worse than what we even have now, which of course
Speaker 1: it got shot down. Of course it did like there's
Speaker 1: no way that could ever be approved. But now President
Speaker 1: Biden can run. As he said just on TV, I
Speaker 1: didn't pull the clip for this, but he said that
Speaker 1: he is going to talk about that NonStop from now
Speaker 1: until November. How Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans decided
Speaker 1: they didn't want border security, but that's not what it
Speaker 1: really was. And we know that because all of the money,
Speaker 1: if you took time to dig into this, all that
Speaker 1: money was earmarked to go, like I said, to Ukraine,
Speaker 1: Israel and Hamas. Now as that bill was shut down,
Speaker 1: they decided, well, let's just go and give the money
Speaker 1: to them anyway and said no, I think ninety six.
Speaker 2: Billion or ninety eight billion is going to them.
Speaker 1: So at a time when public interest is done, we
Speaker 1: don't care about Ukraine anymore.
Speaker 2: We have our own problems. We want the or secure.
Speaker 1: We don't want inflation to continue raging. But what are
Speaker 1: they gonna do. They're gonna print another one hundred billion
Speaker 1: dollars and give it to other countries. And when we
Speaker 1: give to other countries, let me just think about this.
Speaker 1: For example, the money going to Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Is gone. I mean, Ukraine is not winning the war.
Speaker 1: The money going to Israel. Israel has a lower debt
Speaker 1: to GDP than the United States does.
Speaker 2: Why does that go?
Speaker 1: So it's no wonder that the people in America don't
Speaker 1: support the government. Now back to the topic at hand,
Speaker 1: we're witnessing something very interesting. We're witnessing a bright spot.
Speaker 1: It's one of the many signs that constantly points to
Speaker 1: that shows that the pendulum of the world is swinging
Speaker 1: back and forth. And of course that's President Bouquet lead
Speaker 1: down in El Salvador. Now, he's done nothing short of
Speaker 1: a miracle. I mean, the way that he's been able
Speaker 1: to turn the country around is nothing short of a miracle.
Speaker 1: It should literally be in textbooks and every leader, every
Speaker 1: politician in every city, every county, every state, every country
Speaker 1: should be paying attention to exactly what he's done. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna break it down for you. But he was just
Speaker 1: re elected. When I say it was just re elected,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the whole backstory. You can
Speaker 1: understand this. I was recently speaking at a conference up
Speaker 1: in Vancouver and went out to dinner the first night
Speaker 1: of the event and somebody said, Mark, what's going on
Speaker 1: in El Soebigny to do?
Speaker 2: Pay attention?
Speaker 1: What do you think about Bouchayley? And let's say that
Speaker 1: I've done a little bit more research. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit more educated than it was at that point. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna break it down for you, but let's just
Speaker 1: give you the highlights for a minute first. So Boukayley
Speaker 1: has done a lot of things which turned the most
Speaker 1: dangerous country in the world to the safest country in
Speaker 1: the world in record time, at a time when violence
Speaker 1: is sweeping across the United States are once you know,
Speaker 1: beautiful cities I've now turned into homeless encampments with NonStop
Speaker 1: theft happening all the story. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I don't really go to the store, but my wife does.
Speaker 1: My wife is telling me how even here. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize this. I thought it was going to happen in
Speaker 1: the cities. But even in our stores here, like everything's
Speaker 1: locked up, and what an inconvenience it is for her
Speaker 1: that she can't see the inventory that she wants. She
Speaker 1: has to get somebody to come unlock the cabinets for
Speaker 1: all the time. I mean, this is the state where
Speaker 1: it ran. We saw just this week in Oakland we
Speaker 1: have in and out Burger had to close down. I mean,
Speaker 1: shops are closing down, restaurants are closing down because of
Speaker 1: the violence. Apple stores are getting raided, non stop. But
Speaker 1: yet here we have the most dangerous country in the
Speaker 1: world flipped to be the most the safest country in
Speaker 1: the world. Now, he had to do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: I want to document this for you. We'll go through it,
Speaker 1: but I just want to set this up. He had
Speaker 1: to go through some extraordinary measures in order to get
Speaker 1: this done, and so of course the whole world looked
Speaker 1: at him like he was some authoritarian. And I guess
Speaker 1: the saying is hard times create strong men, and that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. Elsavor has gone through some extremely hard
Speaker 1: times and it needed a strong man to come up
Speaker 1: and do something about it. Now, if you understand that
Speaker 1: I've talked about that many times, it's from the Fourth Turning.
Speaker 1: It's also known as generational theory, which is basically, hard
Speaker 1: times create strong men. Strong men create great times, but
Speaker 1: then great times create weak men, and weak men create
Speaker 1: hard times, and then it starts over. And if you
Speaker 1: think about this, think about the weak men that we have,
Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, think about the weak men that we
Speaker 1: have like Justin Trudeau or Macron or any of these
Speaker 1: new leaders. If you will, think about these weak men
Speaker 1: and the times they've created, the hard times that we've
Speaker 1: created and then look at somebody like El Salvador's President Bukeley,
Speaker 1: who steps up and is a hard man, a strong man,
Speaker 1: and it took strong results. And so it's no wonder
Speaker 1: that the rest of the world looks at them and says, oh,
Speaker 1: how dare they do something like this? And so Bookeley
Speaker 1: to address this, he decided, Hey, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna step down out of power because it would
Speaker 1: be understandable. It's understandable, but it's typically the way it goes,
Speaker 1: sort of an evolution that once somebody gets powered, I
Speaker 1: don't want to let go of it, and they continue
Speaker 1: to centralize that power sty have more and more of it,
Speaker 1: and they do become a dictator. It's certainly a risk,
Speaker 1: and this is something I discussed at the dinner a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. It's certainly a risk that he could
Speaker 1: do that now. He's not there now, but it certainly
Speaker 1: a risk. So in order to sort of put that
Speaker 1: rumor to rest, he decided that he would step down,
Speaker 1: remove himself from office, and then see if the people
Speaker 1: wanted him back, and he would go through a democratic election.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: And that's sort of the topic of this conversation right now,
Speaker 1: is that he just won in the biggest landslide in
Speaker 1: the history of representative governments, at least as far as
Speaker 1: I know, and the media isn't even talking about it.
Speaker 1: So suppose at a time when democracy, democracy, democracy, we're
Speaker 1: trying to protect democracy by shutting down access to information
Speaker 1: and free speech. We're trying to promote democracy like in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: which is probably the even bigger dictator country than El
Speaker 1: Salvador was, at a time when it's democracy, democracy, democracy,
Speaker 1: we literally watched democracy play out.
Speaker 2: We watched the leader step.
Speaker 1: Down, have an election and won by the biggest landslide
Speaker 1: and history of representative governments. And like I said, it's
Speaker 1: completely blacked out by the military.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason why I believe is because they
Speaker 1: don't want you to see that this is possible. He
Speaker 1: won by locking up criminals and thugs. Interesting, he won
Speaker 1: by cleaning up his country. He won by, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to do right by the people. I'm going to
Speaker 1: break all this down for you, but I'm setting this
Speaker 1: up a little bit. Winning by eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: the vote, which is just amazing, but of course people
Speaker 1: are calling him a threat to democracy. If you're just
Speaker 1: tuning in, you listening to the Mark mass Show, we're
Speaker 1: breaking down the bright spot in the world that demonstrates
Speaker 1: how the world is changing and.
Speaker 2: For the better. It's the message of hope, don't go away,
Speaker 2: He'll be back, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Welcome back. If you're just tuning in your listening
Speaker 1: to the Mark Moss Show, we're talking about what just
Speaker 1: happened down in Central America. That is the model for
Speaker 1: the world. Like I said, every single politician, whether it's
Speaker 1: your city council, your county, your state, or you're a
Speaker 1: government leader, country leader, you should be paying attention. However,
Speaker 1: they're paying attention, but they're trying to bury it because
Speaker 1: they don't want you to understand what happened. And as
Speaker 1: I said, we're basically talking about how President Buchayley was
Speaker 1: able to turn the most dangerous country in the world
Speaker 1: into one of the safests. So he just got reelected
Speaker 1: overwhelming vote eighty five percent, like the biggest sweeping, you know,
Speaker 1: democratic election that we've seen. But yet people are calling
Speaker 1: him a threat to democracy, which is pretty interesting. We
Speaker 1: saw ilmar Ohan, you know, one of the people from
Speaker 1: the squad on the extreme far left, who's from Samoya.
Speaker 1: I believe it's like her husband is one of the
Speaker 1: main politicians in Samoya. Go ahead and google it. Samalia
Speaker 1: is one of the most corrupt and most dangerous countries
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: And she is on.
Speaker 1: The news over the last couple weeks talking about how
Speaker 1: everything she's doing is for Samoya, how she's trying to
Speaker 1: get Samoia to have influence in the United States, all of
Speaker 1: these things, and then she went and got support to
Speaker 1: file emotion against what else Salvorder is doing because they're
Speaker 1: a threat to democracy. So you start to see what's
Speaker 1: going on. Of course, the left, anything they say, it's
Speaker 1: always going to be the opposite. When they say it's
Speaker 1: a border of security bill, it's not a border security bill.
Speaker 1: When Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, it was actually
Speaker 1: to create more inflation. That's the way it works, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what's happening here. But anyway, this election happened.
Speaker 1: It had massive amount a sea of people out front
Speaker 1: cheering him on to see him take this acceptance, and
Speaker 1: a couple of quotes that I saw him talking about
Speaker 1: in this speech. It was obviously translated. I'm not fluent
Speaker 1: in Spanish, but a couple of things that he talked about.
Speaker 2: He said that.
Speaker 1: He said that he was able to take El Salvador
Speaker 1: from the most dangerous country in the world to the
Speaker 1: safest in the entire Western hemisphere. I think Luxembourg is
Speaker 1: about as safe as El Salvador now, so in the
Speaker 1: entire Western hemisphere now.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: In response to people calling him a dictator, he said
Speaker 1: that he placed honest citizens' rights over the criminals.
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
Speaker 1: That's a novel concept, isn't it, especially in today when
Speaker 1: we have, especially in California, but also in New York
Speaker 1: and other very very blue states, we have basically no
Speaker 1: criminal punishment. You can steal up to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Pretty insane. I mean, we're releasing violent criminals every single
Speaker 1: day because you know, we don't want to make them
Speaker 1: feel bad about themselves, and you know, we have to
Speaker 1: respect their rights. But Bouqueta says, what about the rights
Speaker 1: of the honest citizens that are working hard. Shouldn't their
Speaker 1: rights matter more than criminals? And of course I'm preaching
Speaker 1: to the choir. Of course you say that. But for
Speaker 1: a politician to come out and say that it just
Speaker 1: makes sense, right, Bucley said, I've talked to all the
Speaker 1: other international organizations, I've talked to the other government officials.
Speaker 1: He said, why do they want them.
Speaker 2: To kill us?
Speaker 1: Why do they want these violent criminals to kill us?
Speaker 1: Why do you want to see the people of Savador's
Speaker 1: blood spilled? And of course they don't. Look nobody wants that.
Speaker 1: The people, the immigrants that have come to the United
Speaker 1: States from some of these war torn countries wanted to
Speaker 1: get away from the violence. Nobody wants to live like that.
Speaker 2: And I if.
Speaker 1: You use a rational mind, you if you ask yourself
Speaker 1: why these policies are put in place when nobody in
Speaker 1: their right mind wants them. Unfortunately, there's only a conclusion
Speaker 1: that you can come to that's not a good one,
Speaker 1: and it's because actually it's actually bookay Lee was on
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, maybe it was about a year ago, and
Speaker 1: he said that quote, the demise of the USA has
Speaker 1: to come from within. No external enemy can cause so
Speaker 1: much damage as an internal operation. He continued, I am
Speaker 1: from a third world country, and I see cities in
Speaker 1: the US where I wouldn't want to live. Now, when
Speaker 1: you see cities in the US eroading so fast, this
Speaker 1: has to be by design, That's what he said. This
Speaker 1: is from Bookayley, who turned his country a one eighty
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction, which, of course they don't want
Speaker 1: you to see. Now, what happens when that happens, Well,
Speaker 1: it turns out that all of a sudden people are happy.
Speaker 1: It turns out that now all of a sudden, people
Speaker 1: have hope, and there's energy, and now they're starting to
Speaker 1: provide value to each other's starting to build businesses. It
Speaker 1: turns out kids are now going to schools instead of
Speaker 1: entering gangs. It looks like now we're building them an
Speaker 1: educated class to take El sovereign to the next level.
Speaker 1: What happens when that happens, Well, now we're seeing massive
Speaker 1: amounts of investment capital coming into El Salvador. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, Moody's rating said election results in El
Speaker 1: Salvador indicate approval of President Bukeley's anti crime agenda, and
Speaker 1: it's a positive credit rating. So Moody's is downgrading the
Speaker 1: credit of the United States, and they're upgrading the credit
Speaker 1: of El Salvador.
Speaker 2: Do you see what's happening?
Speaker 1: Of course, no country can survive without law and order,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to live in that. Nobody can build a life,
Speaker 1: nobody can build their private property. No one can build
Speaker 1: a business. Some one can build a family unless there's
Speaker 1: law and order.
Speaker 2: There has to be. It just makes sense, all right.
Speaker 1: Now, let's dig in and see exactly how he did this.
Speaker 1: I came across this article called Bukeley's War for Peace.
Speaker 1: It was written by Benjamin Braddock just a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. Here. It's pretty interesting. So if we go
Speaker 1: back a couple of points that I want to pull
Speaker 1: out here. In twenty nineteen, that's when Boukayley took over
Speaker 1: as president of l Salvador, and at the time he
Speaker 1: came into a staggering challenge. I mean, the country was
Speaker 1: in ruins, the most dangerous country in the world, as
Speaker 1: he's saying, and he had only been in office for
Speaker 1: a month. The countries in shambles, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the country was put into international headlines because a Salvadoras
Speaker 1: father and his daughter were trying to get into the
Speaker 1: United States and they drowned.
Speaker 2: In the Rio Grande trying to get in.
Speaker 1: Now, immigration activists all over we're saying, you know how
Speaker 1: dare the US make it so hard and this tragedy.
Speaker 1: It's all Trump's fault for endagering migrants. You know, we
Speaker 1: should allow the asylum seekers to get in easier. It's
Speaker 1: Trump's fault all these things. Now, that's what Pauls typically do.
Speaker 1: They try to shift the blame to somebody else. But
Speaker 1: Bouquet Lee did the opposite. He said, quote, we can
Speaker 1: speak blame to any other country, but what about our
Speaker 1: own blame? I mean, what country did they flee? Did
Speaker 1: they flee the United States? No, they fled Al Salvador.
Speaker 1: They fled our country. It's our fault.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: You see the first step to change in your life
Speaker 1: is to take responsibility for it. As long as you're
Speaker 1: continuing to blame other people and push the blame onto
Speaker 1: somebody else, you're never going to get the growth. And
Speaker 1: as a brand new president who just took over and
Speaker 1: shouldn't even take responsibility for that, he's not the one
Speaker 1: that brought that country to that stage over one hundred
Speaker 1: years or whatever it took to get there. But yet
Speaker 1: he took responsibility. He said, why would we blame Trump
Speaker 1: or the United States or any other country?
Speaker 2: What about us? Why did they leave?
Speaker 1: Our own country. It's pretty amazing, and that is what
Speaker 1: a real leader does. Like I said, he could have
Speaker 1: blamed anybody else for this. All right, So this was
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. This article is great. We'll link it
Speaker 1: to it in the show notes down below. It talks
Speaker 1: a lot about how the gangs and how the violence
Speaker 1: got so bad in El Salvador and hand hint hint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's because the United States.
Speaker 1: These Al Salvador gangs grew in Los Angeles. They continue
Speaker 1: to get worse and worse and worse. They grew through
Speaker 1: the prison system and then they all got exported and
Speaker 1: shipped right down to El Salvador. So the United States
Speaker 1: fostered them, culturedom allowed them to grow, allowed them to
Speaker 1: become the most dangerous, bloodthirsty and yes, even a Satanic gang.
Speaker 1: They did lots of Satanic rituals and sacrifices and things
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: But it was in the US that they grew.
Speaker 1: In the US that, like I said, they were cultured
Speaker 1: and grown, and then they were exported and sent right
Speaker 1: down to El Salvador.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So that's where we're at. If you're just tuning in
Speaker 1: listening to the Mark Mass show. I'm talking about one
Speaker 1: of the most one of the biggest turnarounds that we've
Speaker 1: seen in any country, and it is a bright spot.
Speaker 1: What happens is you're typically looking for things that work,
Speaker 1: and you do more of those, and you look for
Speaker 1: things that don't work and you do less of those.
Speaker 2: That's typically the way that it works.
Speaker 1: However, in the United States we seem to be doing
Speaker 1: the opposite. But Elsavador is given us a picture of
Speaker 1: the way forward. I'll be back with more after a
Speaker 1: very short break.
Speaker 2: Don't go away, We're back, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Welcome back. If you just tune in, you're listening
Speaker 1: to the Mark Mass Show. I'm always talking about the
Speaker 1: way the world is changing, how the world is decentralizing,
Speaker 1: how the grip of centralization or globalism is being broken.
Speaker 1: We look out through the lens of politics, finance, and technology,
Speaker 1: and this story that we're talking about today is a
Speaker 1: perfect example of how the world is changing right now
Speaker 1: in front of us. And while things look dark and
Speaker 1: scary and i we're definitely going in the wrong direction
Speaker 1: and lots of places, there's lots of places that are
Speaker 1: going in the right direction and give us massive amounts
Speaker 1: of hope and so you know, they say it's always
Speaker 1: darkest before the dawn, and unfortunately, I think there's still
Speaker 1: more pain ahead, specifically in the West, and partly because
Speaker 1: what I said in the beginning with the generational theory,
Speaker 1: hard times create strong men. That's what's happening in El Salvador.
Speaker 1: We're still in the last stage what would be called
Speaker 1: the fourth turning, which is bad times or bad weak
Speaker 1: men created bad times. Anyway, back to the story down here.
Speaker 1: So twenty fifteen was the year that El Salvador attained
Speaker 1: the status as the most dangerous country in the world,
Speaker 1: and it was also the year that Mukayley was elected
Speaker 1: as the mayor of San Salvador, San Savador being one
Speaker 1: of the biggest cities there. By the way, I'm going
Speaker 1: out to El Salvador in about a month. If he'd
Speaker 1: love to come down and see me. I'm going to
Speaker 1: put a link in the show notes down below. We'll
Speaker 1: ahead and put that down there. You should come check
Speaker 1: it out. But anyway, so he became the mayor's Sun Salvador,
Speaker 1: and then he started running. He wanted to move up
Speaker 1: to become president in the twenty nineteen presidential election. He
Speaker 1: was already pulling higher than any of the other potential
Speaker 1: presidential candidates. But the problem is the political parties sort
Speaker 1: of had the power. There was the f MLN and
Speaker 1: the ar NA Arena, and they basically teamed up together
Speaker 1: to block his participation in the election. They wanted to
Speaker 1: keep him out, of course they did. They wanted the
Speaker 1: status quo. The problem with most of these corrupt countries.
Speaker 2: Which is the most of the world, and I mean
Speaker 2: the United.
Speaker 1: States is pretty corupt as well, is that they don't
Speaker 1: want things to change. They need to continue to hang
Speaker 1: on to power. So of course they try to block anybody,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately it's because they're looking out for their own
Speaker 1: self interest and not for the greater good of the country.
Speaker 1: And really, you know, there's a saying I learned a
Speaker 1: long time ago. The fish stinks from the head down.
Speaker 1: And basically that means that it starts at the top
Speaker 1: and then it trickles down to the rest. If you
Speaker 1: look into like running a company, a business, you have
Speaker 1: to set culture for that business, and that culture has
Speaker 1: to be set from the top. The president, the CEO,
Speaker 1: the founder has to decide what that culture will be,
Speaker 1: and they're the ones that influence it. If they want
Speaker 1: to have excellence and hard work and customer care, then
Speaker 1: that's what the company will have. But unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen that shift in the United States and all
Speaker 1: around the world back to the hard times.
Speaker 2: Strong men.
Speaker 1: If you look at the founding of the United States,
Speaker 1: the founding fathers, they literally risk their lives for the
Speaker 1: betterment of future generations, you know, planting a tree under
Speaker 1: which they'd never sit under that shade, so to speak. Right,
Speaker 1: they were literally sacrificed in life. And even a hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, people were moving here from other countries to
Speaker 1: have better lives for their kids, things that they would
Speaker 1: never see. They work two three jobs so their kids
Speaker 1: could have a better life. But unfortunately, today, unlike our
Speaker 1: founding fathers who sacrifice their lives for future generations, we
Speaker 1: have politicians that are only out to enrich themselves every
Speaker 1: twist and turn they can. And unfortunately, the double edged
Speaker 1: sword of freedom has allowed, unfortunately many politicians in the United
Speaker 1: States to enrich themselves by selling the country down the river,
Speaker 1: and of course they don't want that system to change,
Speaker 1: and of course then that trickles down through society. So
Speaker 1: if the leaders at the top are only out for
Speaker 1: short term wins and gains, and they're willing to let
Speaker 1: greed drive them and sell out their own country and
Speaker 1: basically steal. Then what do you think everybody else does?
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, the best way to get rich today is
Speaker 1: through gambling and theft, and that's exactly what we're seeing
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened in.
Speaker 2: L Salvador.
Speaker 1: However, President Muchaylee was able to get through. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to take you through all the twists and turns
Speaker 1: in this, but he was able to get through and
Speaker 1: actually was was elected as president. That was June first,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and on June twentyeth he took his acceptance
Speaker 1: speech to a packed out crowd. He was the people's favorite,
Speaker 1: but the establishment didn't want them in there. Now, he
Speaker 1: put together a grand plan, a territorial control plan is
Speaker 1: what he called it. And I believe there was like
Speaker 1: four phases. We'll go through the real quick. So Phase
Speaker 1: one of the plan was called preparation. It involved concentrating
Speaker 1: on this disrupting the finances of the gangs, and taking
Speaker 1: back control of historic city and town centers in twelve
Speaker 1: key municipalities. Now again, it was one of the most
Speaker 1: dangerous countries in the world run by these gangs. Now,
Speaker 1: basically what was happening is MS thirteen gangs had control
Speaker 1: over the whole country and the country, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a poor country, and so they had these like little
Speaker 1: villages and pueblos or whatever you want to call them
Speaker 1: down there, and basically these gangs would run every one
Speaker 1: of them. And from what I hear from the people,
Speaker 1: have been down there a couple of times. From what
Speaker 1: I hear from the people, the locals couldn't even leave
Speaker 1: the towns, come and go without paying basically attacks to
Speaker 1: these gangs, and they would take a large percentage of
Speaker 1: their income. I mean, they're so broke, they barely make
Speaker 1: any money as it is, and these gangs would take
Speaker 1: a large percentage of that. They would get robbed riding
Speaker 1: the buses and things like that. Basically, they are just terrorized.
Speaker 1: They were living under oppression and fear all the time.
Speaker 1: And these gangs had become so powerful that they had
Speaker 1: infiltrated their way into the court system and even into
Speaker 1: the government. And so the first phase was to start
Speaker 1: attacking their finances, take back control of the city and
Speaker 1: the town centers. Like I said, in these twelve twelve
Speaker 1: key areas. He had two thousand police officers from the
Speaker 1: National Civil Police and three thousand soldiers of the Armed
Speaker 1: forces coming in and the prisons were put on lockdowns,
Speaker 1: with cell phone signals around the prisons blocked. Why do
Speaker 1: have cell phones? It's not allowed, you know, they're not
Speaker 1: allowed to have cell phones, but yet they all do
Speaker 1: in the United States as well, they had them in
Speaker 1: El Salvador. He locked the prisons down and blocked cell
Speaker 1: phone signals.
Speaker 2: Well, it seems like a pretty good idea.
Speaker 1: Why don't we do that here? Why wasn't that done earlier?
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you understand?
Speaker 1: Phase two was called Opportunity. Opportunity was an effort conducted
Speaker 1: in parallel with other operational phases, and it focused It
Speaker 1: focused on positive change. It focused on offering youth a
Speaker 1: different path. Don't go with the gangs. Instead, let's create
Speaker 1: this social fabric, schools, sports centers, educational opportunities, vocational training.
Speaker 1: Let's give these kids something to aspire to. Let's give
Speaker 1: them training, Let's give them something else other than just gangs.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a pretty good plan. Phase number three Modernization, Now,
Speaker 1: this involved equipping the military and the police force to deal.
Speaker 2: With the gangs.
Speaker 1: This meant updating their modern weapons, getting them you know,
Speaker 1: proper vehicles, body armor, helicopters, night vision, because the gangs
Speaker 1: are very well equipped in Mexico. Now, these gangs are
Speaker 1: like trillionaires. They have better weapons than most militaries. And
Speaker 1: I mean down in Mexico and a lot of places
Speaker 1: I go, the police.
Speaker 2: Don't even have cars.
Speaker 1: The police just like stand on corners. But yet the
Speaker 1: narcos they have the best weapons you can have. And
Speaker 1: so that's what's happening down in El Salvadors. They had
Speaker 1: to equip the military with better equipment, got one hundred
Speaker 1: and nine million dollar loan in order to do that,
Speaker 1: and so he was sort of ramping up on Then
Speaker 1: February six, Bukeley invoked Article one sixty seven of El
Speaker 1: Salvador's Constitution to convene an extraordinary session of the Legislative Assembly,
Speaker 1: and he called in the citizens to join him at
Speaker 1: the Legislative Assembly. So he got all the people because
Speaker 1: he cared about the consent of the people that he governed,
Speaker 1: unlike what we have going on in the United States today.
Speaker 1: And he got all the people to come in and
Speaker 1: he asked the crowd, I want to ask you to
Speaker 1: let me enter into the blue hall of the Legislat
Speaker 1: Assembly to say a prayer and that God give us
Speaker 1: wisdom for the steps we're going to take, and then
Speaker 1: the decision will be up to you. Do you authorize me?
Speaker 1: He asked them a question, and the crowd started chanting
Speaker 1: and roaring yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, get in the
Speaker 1: consent and the will of the people to go and
Speaker 1: do something, and even more importantly saying that he wants
Speaker 1: to go and ask God about it, giving it up
Speaker 1: to a higher power. Now, whether you believe in God
Speaker 1: or whatever god you believe in, I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: understandable that if you give respect, if you believe in
Speaker 1: a higher power, you're probably going to be a better
Speaker 1: leader than if you think you're the God themselves. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of religions that I don't agree with, but
Speaker 1: we pretty much for the most part, would agree that
Speaker 1: if people lived by this universal code, things will be
Speaker 1: better off. Then that's exactly what President Buchley did. He
Speaker 1: said that he asked God and God told him patience, patience, patience.
Speaker 1: But when he came out to people are like, no,
Speaker 1: we don't want patience, and he said, no, we're going
Speaker 1: to do this patiently, and we're going to do it democratically,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what's happening. Through the democratic process, he
Speaker 1: was able to mobilize another fourteen fourteen hundred soldiers to
Speaker 1: go fight the gangs. And a year after this all started,
Speaker 1: his party succeeded, took one by overwhelming votes. And now
Speaker 1: Bukeley was free to govern with so full support of
Speaker 1: the legislator legislature. And this story is just getting going.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you exactly what happened after this
Speaker 1: next step happened, how bitcoin came into play, and again
Speaker 1: how this can be a model for the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. If you're just tune in your listening to
Speaker 1: the Mark Mass Show talking about the bright spot in
Speaker 1: the world that should be an example for the rest
Speaker 1: of us. We'll be back with more in a minute.
Speaker 1: Don't go away, all right, welcome back. If you just
Speaker 1: tune in, you're listening to the Mark mass Show, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the bright spot that's going on in the world.
Speaker 1: That should be the well, it should be the example.
Speaker 1: It should be what every politician, city, county, state government
Speaker 1: should be paying attention to and I'm talking about what's
Speaker 1: going on down in El Salvador. We saw President Bouquelee
Speaker 1: takeover El Salvador as the president a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago now I guess about five years ago, and has
Speaker 1: turned it within five years from I think the most
Speaker 1: that he says the most dangerous country in the world
Speaker 1: to the safest country, at least in the Western hemisphere
Speaker 1: or potentially in the entire world. I went through sort
Speaker 1: of the whole plan of how they did that, and
Speaker 1: we talked about I'm getting up to speed. So finally
Speaker 1: we're at phase four of this territorial control plan that
Speaker 1: he put in. And this is an important piece because again,
Speaker 1: the country was so violent and it was under such
Speaker 1: control this by the gangs that there was areas that
Speaker 1: were literally no go zones that were so dangerous and
Speaker 1: were so controlled.
Speaker 2: By gangs that they couldn't even go there.
Speaker 1: I remember in high school one of my best friends
Speaker 1: family had come from South Africa. I had a couple
Speaker 1: friends from South Africa and they had left there when
Speaker 1: things got bad. Their families had moved over here. Remember
Speaker 1: one of my friends after high school went back and
Speaker 1: he worked as a fireman over there. And you know,
Speaker 1: in South Africa, and he came, he would come back
Speaker 1: periodically and we'd kind of talk about what life was
Speaker 1: like living over there, and I remember him telling me
Speaker 1: stories about how there were these no go zones where
Speaker 1: literally even if the police were, say like in a
Speaker 1: high speed pursuit or something like that, there were certain areas,
Speaker 1: like certain neighborhoods or regions that the police wouldn't even
Speaker 1: go into because.
Speaker 2: It was so bad. And I couldn't believe.
Speaker 1: It at that, Like I was young, and I just
Speaker 1: didn't understand the way the world worked, I guess at
Speaker 1: that point, but it was, it was it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: For me to think about that.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that's the way South Africa still is today, and
Speaker 1: it was exactly how El Salvador was at that time,
Speaker 1: or the Sales Salvator South America, South Africa. It's the
Speaker 1: same way South Africa still is today, unfortunately, and it's
Speaker 1: the way that El Salvador was as well. And so
Speaker 1: the part phase four of the plan was to basically
Speaker 1: get the government to re establish security control of these
Speaker 1: no go zones that the police had previously found it
Speaker 1: difficult or impossible to even operate in you know, in
Speaker 1: these barrios, things like that taxis had to pay extortion
Speaker 1: fees when they entered and left the barrio. Little ladies
Speaker 1: with papoosa stands, which are just like these little like
Speaker 1: sort of bread sandwiches that they make down there. Little
Speaker 1: ladies of the papoosa stands had to pay gangs a percentage
Speaker 1: of their receipts or they would see their sons disappear.
Speaker 1: Men who could not cross certain geographic boundaries to buy
Speaker 1: food or they'd be killed. Right, they couldn't. They couldn't
Speaker 1: even go feed their families. They had to go send
Speaker 1: their wives to do it. That's how things were at
Speaker 1: this point. And so this phase of the plan was
Speaker 1: to take away the gang's ownership of these spaces and
Speaker 1: allow the citizens to free the work and then come
Speaker 1: and go as they please without fear. Sounds like a
Speaker 1: pretty good deal, right, But I mean, we're starting to
Speaker 1: see this in the United States. There's plenty of places
Speaker 1: in some of these big cities that you shouldn't be going.
Speaker 1: People getting beat up and mugged and robbed and even
Speaker 1: killed on the subways or downtown cities. Now, as part
Speaker 1: of this phase, a new goal was also announced to
Speaker 1: double the size of the armed forces from twenty thousand
Speaker 1: to forty thousand troops and the operation, you know, in
Speaker 1: order to do this, in order to reclaim the Borrios
Speaker 1: put the game members in a very defensive posture. All right,
Speaker 1: So this is pretty interesting, and of course they're going
Speaker 1: to fight back. They're not going to go away easily. Right.
Speaker 1: So for months, the homicidera had been very low, and
Speaker 1: that's because they were on their back foot so to speak. Right,
Speaker 1: They were coming after the gang so much they were
Speaker 1: forced into hiding. But on March twenty sixth to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, the gangs decided to move forward and they
Speaker 1: went on a killing spree. They started targeting street vendors,
Speaker 1: bus passengers, grocery shoppers. It was El Salvador's bloodiest day
Speaker 1: since the civil war, and the gangs were basically trying
Speaker 1: to send a message to the government, Look, you either
Speaker 1: back off of us and let us have our way,
Speaker 1: or we are going to rain down and you know,
Speaker 1: terrorize you some more.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So this was an interesting piece because a weak man,
Speaker 1: a week president would potentially get into that, but not Buquelie.
Speaker 1: He was a strong man and so instead of backing
Speaker 1: down to what the gang's request is, he responded in
Speaker 1: kind or maybe even faster, and it was swift and
Speaker 1: it was resolute. So what he basically did the next
Speaker 1: day the National Assembly passed a state of emergency and
Speaker 1: a state of exception. The gangs had treated the public
Speaker 1: as hostages, right, they were terrorizing all these people, using
Speaker 1: them as hostages. So down to the President began treating
Speaker 1: their imprisoned homeboys in sort of the same way all
Speaker 1: of the home boys, the other gang members that were
Speaker 1: in prison. He started cutting their meals, giving meal rationing.
Speaker 1: He took their mattresses, he took their clothes away from them,
Speaker 1: so now inmates were only able to wear underwear and
Speaker 1: they had to sleep on concrete. And then the president
Speaker 1: valved that if there were any more waves of gang violence,
Speaker 1: that the imprisoned gang members would not be fed, as
Speaker 1: he said quote, not be fed a single grain of rice. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, people don't like this. You have all these
Speaker 1: international NGOs, non gover organizations like the Human Rights Watch,
Speaker 1: the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International, the
Speaker 1: United Nations, you know, all of these in there saying how.
Speaker 2: Dare you do this.
Speaker 1: You can't treat people like that. And the President responded, quote,
Speaker 1: they can take their gang members if they want, We'll
Speaker 1: give them.
Speaker 2: All of them. Of course they didn't.
Speaker 1: Of course none of these countries wanted them. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: the United States probably wanted a few of them. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll get some of them over here. But that's exactly
Speaker 1: how he had to deal with it. And so what
Speaker 1: happened is over the next couple of months, the war
Speaker 1: against the gangs just intensified. Thousands more gang members were arrested,
Speaker 1: more prison more than they could even fit into the prison.
Speaker 1: So then Bikayley had to build new prisons. He had
Speaker 1: to build a new one that had a capacity for
Speaker 1: forty thousand inmates, but he rounded them up, cleaned it up,
Speaker 1: allowed him go into Phase five, which was a territory
Speaker 1: control plan extractions. So now police and soldiers began encircling
Speaker 1: communities and going to where all the known gang members are,
Speaker 1: where they were hiding out, and they started doing house
Speaker 1: by house searches until every single person was checked. Now
Speaker 1: the part that a lot of people don't like, and
Speaker 1: I agree, I mean, unfortunately, when things get this bad,
Speaker 1: you have to do extreme measures. I'm guessing that in
Speaker 1: this massive dragnet that the government did, there was probably
Speaker 1: some innocent people that might have got caught up in that,
Speaker 1: and that's not good. I would imagine that some people
Speaker 1: maybe didn't get the full benefit of the doubt, maybe
Speaker 1: they didn't get the full due process that they deserve,
Speaker 1: and that's unfortunate and I am certainly one hundred percent
Speaker 1: for everybody's rights. The problem is, how do you fix
Speaker 1: a problem this extreme. The answer would be to never
Speaker 1: let it get that way in the first place.
Speaker 2: That's the answer.
Speaker 1: You know, we live in a world of complex systems.
Speaker 1: The human body is a complex system, the financial systems
Speaker 1: a complex system. Our socio or economic world we live
Speaker 1: in is a complex system, and you can't just treat
Speaker 1: individual symptoms without having unintended consequences. You know, I mostly
Speaker 1: talk about the financial system, and so as we talk
Speaker 1: about the financial system, people want say, we how can
Speaker 1: we fix this?
Speaker 2: How can we fix out?
Speaker 1: But the problem is you fix one little thing and
Speaker 1: it causes all these other problems. And so the answer
Speaker 1: is like, well, we should have never let it get
Speaker 1: like this in the first place, because there's really no
Speaker 1: good way getting out of it. I remember again, back
Speaker 1: in high school, one of my other good friends, their
Speaker 1: family owned a body shop, and I would I'd hang
Speaker 1: out there sometimes on the weekends, and I remember he
Speaker 1: would talk about like people would come in and see
Speaker 1: them working on their cars and they're hitting them with hammers,
Speaker 1: trying to pound out panels, and the people like, WHOA, well,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? You know, you're making it worse.
Speaker 1: And he's like, look, man, you hit it this hard,
Speaker 1: like we had to hit hard to get it to get.
Speaker 2: It back into shape.
Speaker 1: It's sort of the what is it the saying like
Speaker 1: you can't make a cake without breaking a few egs
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And so, unfortunately, when it comes to
Speaker 1: you know, again, complex systems, whether it be your health,
Speaker 1: your body, the economic system, or a political system like this,
Speaker 1: unfortunately there's no good swift answer. And everything in life
Speaker 1: has a cost. Everything in life has trade off, and
Speaker 1: you have to just trade things off. Unfortunately, that's just
Speaker 1: the way the world works. It's not black and white
Speaker 1: like that. But the outcome is is that now the
Speaker 1: kids who would otherwise be growing up in environment that
Speaker 1: pressure them into joining gangs now have massive opportunity. Now
Speaker 1: instead of going to gangs. Now they have school, they
Speaker 1: have sports now, instead of a country that's continue to
Speaker 1: fall further and further behind, now there's investment capital coming in.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Businesses no longer have the tax of extortion by the gangs,
Speaker 1: so they're free to expand. Workers no longer have to
Speaker 1: pay extortion fees, so that's more money for them to
Speaker 1: invest into their own families and to their own businesses.
Speaker 1: The amount of psychological relief that's come from the gangs
Speaker 1: being relaxed is allowing the country to flourish.
Speaker 2: But yet the opposite of that what.
Speaker 1: We're seeing all throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States
Speaker 1: specifically in these major cities, it's the opposite direction. And
Speaker 1: so the dark before the dawn, so to speak, is
Speaker 1: we're still going in this bad direction.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately. The good news is that Bouqueti was able.
Speaker 1: To turn this around in just a couple of short years,
Speaker 1: and he's showing the world how quickly he can turn
Speaker 1: around the world if they wanted to. Anyway, if you're
Speaker 1: tuning in listening to the Mark Moss Show talking about
Speaker 1: the bright spot of what's going on in El Salvador
Speaker 1: and how it could be a model, it should be
Speaker 1: a model for the rest of the world. Let me
Speaker 1: know what you think. I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Hit me up at one Mark Moss on social media
Speaker 1: and that's what I got.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening.