Episode 44 - Nayib Bukele and the Crackdown in El Salvador

The one where we talk about Nayib Bukele, an indictment from the EDNY, the curious crackdown on some gang members in El Salvador, and MAGA's fawning approval of these measures.

Here are some of the sources we used while assembling this episode:

Guardian on Bukele's decision to move 2000 suspected gang members to the new "Megaprison"

Damian Merlo's Foreign Agent Registration(FARA) for his work on behalf of El Salvador

EDNY Indictment for the MS-13 gang leaders

El Faro on the EDNY indictment

El Faro on the aftermath of the crackdown

“He says that, for some time now, the gangs’ street "soldiers" believe that their leaders "sold them out.""It’s true. These structures have no management. The ranflas [leaders] claimed to be looking out for their soldiers’ wellbeing. Not anymore. We came to the conclusion that it wasn’t the case." He thinks that the concentration of power in the hands of the historic leaders of the organizations had backfired on them."The ranflas [in prison] didn’t want to appoint substitutes [in the streets]. I don’t know why. Maybe because they didn’t want to leave to someone else what was theirs. So they didn’t do it. These locos negotiated for their own benefit. What did they negotiate? I don’t know," he said.”El Faro on the pact between Bukele and the gangs

The Guardian on the beginnings of ISIS

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