Yea, best to troll on Twitter than fix your country that has the literal highest homicide rate in the world.
Murder good for Bitcoin?
Murder good for Bitcoin?
It used to be like that. Now the homicide rate is the lowest in modern history of El Salvador.
Is it how I do it? Probably not exactly. But it's disingenuous to say that economic and financial changes are not a piece of fixing social problems like persistent crime.
[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/03/el-salvador-homicide-hi...
So yes, if you allow the state to become an arm of the cartels then I suppose you can call it a job well done that they're not murdering as many people.
The use of “else” implies that this surrender constitutes the “government” controlling the cartels rather than vice versa. In fact, the cartels are the government, they’ve just outsourced the boring and less-profitable aspects of governing to the entity that calls itself the “government”, as long as it stays in line.
(Which, to be fair, hardly makes El Salvador unique.)
Maybe the Sicilians should run for office in Italy?
On the one hand, I’m no IMF fan and appreciate how that abstractly could be part of the beginning of a better fix than typically comes of working with the IMF.
On the other hand, in practice it seems usually to be part of a flag-waving, nationalist, foreigners-are-the-problem distraction for regime leaders implementing either looting the country or tightening an authoritarian fist around it under the guise of economic/financial reforms not beholden to foreigners (but any of whose bad effects will be blamed on foreign interference.)