"El Salvador Shows Just How Much People Will Sacrifice to Control Crime" (Megan McArdle, Washington Post, Sept 25, 2023)

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Thesis

When crime gets bad enough, people will give up civil liberties for safety. “Don’t let people choose between human rights and keeping the streets safe, they will choose safe streets every time. This lesson is to keep crime from getting out of control in the first place

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Nayib Bukele’s methods

  • no due process

  • arrests based on tattoos or anonymous calls

  • undermined the independent judiciary

  • centralized powers


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Results of Bukele’s methods

  • gangs destroyed

  • commerce returned

  • kids back on fields

  • innocent jailed & in horrific conditions


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Nayib Bukele

El Salvador’s president “Grand Champion Incarcerator”

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Hobbes’ state of nature = gang rule and people accepted a powerful sovereign for security