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Hey, What Deals Did America's Tinpot Dictator Make With El Salvador's? -- Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/p/hey-what-deals-did-americas-tinpotMarcie Jones
The kind where Bukele gets everything he wants, of course!
ProPublica has been killing it during these crapulent times, and they’re out with another longform banger to answer the question, just what did El Salvador’s dictator Nayib Bukele get in exchange for helping Trump disappear 300-something immigrants into his mega-prison?
More than money, it (allegedly) turns out: Bukele also got protection from US money laundering investigations, an indefinite delay of extradition of criminals from El Salvador who are wanted in the US, and a return to El Salvador of prisoners from the US who know about certain mutual-aid deals Bukele made with the MS-13 gang. The New Yorker has also been on this story; though not many other places seem to have picked it up. But with our own country getting a fascist makeover, one can’t pay attention to everything!
You remember Nayib Bukele, the greasy dictator who has been building massive mega-prisons, and hopes someday to maybe even put American citizens in them? He’s been imprisoning people like crazy down there since being elected in 2019. Now El Salvador’s got more than 110,000 people currently in prison, the highest incarceration rate in the world, more than triple even the United States’s. Journalists, lawyers, activists, fruit sellers, people who overcook fish, straight to jail. For nearly three years and counting, El Salvador has been in a Bukele-declared state of emergency over “gang violence,” which allows the regime to disappear anyone, including children, into torture prison with no evidence or any process. And that is what it does.
In a normal world no American president would be caught touching such a guy with a 10-foot-pole, much less hugging them in the Oval Office like some kind of a long-lost hermano, but here we are.
Buleke’s bio offers lots of things he and Dear Leader have in common, and not just because Bukele looks like AI following a prompt to “draw Don Junior, but oilier.”
Bukele is a self-made dictator, and proud of it. He claims a 90 percent approval rating, but that’s only because if you don’t approve of him, guess what? Jail! Right to jail!
This clip sure is getting a workout lately!
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More than money, it (allegedly) turns out: Bukele also got protection from US money laundering investigations, an indefinite delay of extradition of criminals from El Salvador who are wanted in the US, and a return to El Salvador of prisoners from the US who know about certain mutual-aid deals Bukele made with the MS-13 gang. The New Yorker has also been on this story; though not many other places seem to have picked it up. But with our own country getting a fascist makeover, one can’t pay attention to everything!
You remember Nayib Bukele, the greasy dictator who has been building massive mega-prisons, and hopes someday to maybe even put American citizens in them? He’s been imprisoning people like crazy down there since being elected in 2019. Now El Salvador’s got more than 110,000 people currently in prison, the highest incarceration rate in the world, more than triple even the United States’s. Journalists, lawyers, activists, fruit sellers, people who overcook fish, straight to jail. For nearly three years and counting, El Salvador has been in a Bukele-declared state of emergency over “gang violence,” which allows the regime to disappear anyone, including children, into torture prison with no evidence or any process. And that is what it does.
In a normal world no American president would be caught touching such a guy with a 10-foot-pole, much less hugging them in the Oval Office like some kind of a long-lost hermano, but here we are.
Buleke’s bio offers lots of things he and Dear Leader have in common, and not just because Bukele looks like AI following a prompt to “draw Don Junior, but oilier.”
Bukele is a self-made dictator, and proud of it. He claims a 90 percent approval rating, but that’s only because if you don’t approve of him, guess what? Jail! Right to jail!
This clip sure is getting a workout lately!
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