Well I’m back from El Salvador and my break. I gotta say it feels good being around leftists who can actually analyze the situation using our own history and not ww2. They understand how hard the 20th century was for the region and how much Bukele is resembling Maximiliano Martinez.
My own family are mixed on him. The men are unsurprisingly die hards who see him as some sort of tough guy while most of the women respect him cracking down on crime but want him to leave migrants alone.
You have to remember that the things he’s doing didn’t start with him but he’s making the largest spectacle out of it. The whole targeting people with tattoos was a thing that started with Honduras in the 2000’s and Guatemala has a long history of disappearing people in US backed prisons, including American citizens. One of whom the Clintons mocked.
I still think Bukele is a regional issue. Mexico and Colombia are welcome to get involved with their countries being linked to Central America but that’s as far as I’m willing to go.
We have to also remember that climate change is hitting El Salvador hard. Harder than it is with Guatemala. I think Guatemala will survive by the end of the century in a very fractured state but I think El Salvador will be one of those countries that will no longer exist.
westerners really like to compare everything to ww2, its like its the only history class they have
i dont think claudia or petro will get too involved with bukele besides maybe a comment here and there, it seams most of the deportees are from venezuela and central america, plus it seams the main strategy of the latam pink tide is ignore the right wing govs and push for more regional integration
It does seem that way and Bukele has expressed interest in Central American integration. Arevalo seems less enthused than our previous president so I guess we’ll see if it ever comes to be.
Well I’m back from El Salvador and my break. I gotta say it feels good being around leftists who can actually analyze the situation using our own history and not ww2. They understand how hard the 20th century was for the region and how much Bukele is resembling Maximiliano Martinez.
My own family are mixed on him. The men are unsurprisingly die hards who see him as some sort of tough guy while most of the women respect him cracking down on crime but want him to leave migrants alone.
You have to remember that the things he’s doing didn’t start with him but he’s making the largest spectacle out of it. The whole targeting people with tattoos was a thing that started with Honduras in the 2000’s and Guatemala has a long history of disappearing people in US backed prisons, including American citizens. One of whom the Clintons mocked.
I still think Bukele is a regional issue. Mexico and Colombia are welcome to get involved with their countries being linked to Central America but that’s as far as I’m willing to go.
We have to also remember that climate change is hitting El Salvador hard. Harder than it is with Guatemala. I think Guatemala will survive by the end of the century in a very fractured state but I think El Salvador will be one of those countries that will no longer exist.
westerners really like to compare everything to ww2, its like its the only history class they have
i dont think claudia or petro will get too involved with bukele besides maybe a comment here and there, it seams most of the deportees are from venezuela and central america, plus it seams the main strategy of the latam pink tide is ignore the right wing govs and push for more regional integration
glad your travel to el salvador went well
It does seem that way and Bukele has expressed interest in Central American integration. Arevalo seems less enthused than our previous president so I guess we’ll see if it ever comes to be.