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The same president that made bitcoin El Salvador's legal currency also managed the growth of the economy and its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nayib Bukele

The same president that made bitcoin El Salvador's legal currency also managed the growth of the economy and its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nayib Bukele is the most interesting politician in America today.

peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> The same president that made bitcoin El Salvador's legal currency also managed the growth of the economy rebound after COVID has been common in many parts of the World Mt country have grown 7% after years of zero/negative growth It was managed by the same politicians that could not make it grow in the previous 20 years > Nayib Bukele is the most interesting politician in America today that says a lot about the state of politics in America...
- shyn3 4y ago
  - LBJsPNS 4y ago
    Please stop with the bullshit. And yes, if you're trying to claim Joe Biden doesn't know his own name, You're full of it.
    - shyn3 4y ago
      - arinlen 4y ago
        > I mean is it wrong to fathom he doesn't know his own name? Yes, it's pathetic. Please stop generating noise in an otherwise interesting discussion over El Salvador.
        shyn3 4y ago
        It's actually hilarious and a poor representation on the education system and the populace. Your other point is valid.
- neither_color 4y ago
  He's also cut the homicide down to below some major US cities. The homicide rate fell from 38 per 100,000 to 18 per 100,000. Most people have only heard of him because of Bitcoin and so their own biases of Bitcoin cloud their judgment of Bukele. Locally he's a legend. He objectively handled Covid better than many countries around him(bested only by Costa Rica and Panama, which are already considered comparatively more developed than El Salvador). His foray into Bitcoin is considered a mistake of ambition not one of corruption. To put that into context the previous administration of El Salvador is accused of embezzling $300,000,000 USD. I wish more schadenfreude articles about El Salvador would include that fact.
  - peoplefromibiza 4y ago
    > He's also cut the homicide down to below some major US cities. that's not a great benchmark US homicide rate is 10 times worse than my country and my country is just average... Los Angeles alone in a year had more homicides than my entire country (303 vs 279) but my country has 60 million people living in it, LA only 4 million. > To put that into context the previous administration of El Salvador is accused of embezzling $300,000,000 USD small potatoes and who accuses them? is this president liked by the US? because Lula is only the last one of a long line of former south american presidents destroyed by US propaganda to put there someone more "friendly" Lula was innocent BTW
    - ReadTheLicense 4y ago
      > that's not a great benchmark > US homicide rate is 10 times worse than my country and my country is just average... Cool, but you have to compare El Salvador to its peers. How much money and continuity does your state have compared to ES? Even the poorest [GDP per capita] European Union states have literally multiple orders of magnitude bigger state budgets than ES. Getting homicide rate in Americas under the US average is a huge achievement, especially given how quick it was and how hopeless it seemed just a few years ago. > small potatoes Hahahahahah, maybe for you. It's the entire yearly budget deficit for El Salvador. These 700 million were the difference between life and death for many El Salvadorans who couldn't get their pensions or healthcare payouts raised with the inflation. Perhaps you could donate some "small potatoes", they really need it and it seems like you have more than enough. > Lula was innocent BTW I guess your investigation has turned up a new suspect?

peoplefromibiza 4y ago

> The same president that made bitcoin El Salvador's legal currency also managed the growth of the economy rebound after COVID has been common in many parts of the World Mt country have grown 7% after years of zero/negative growth It was managed by the same politicians that could not make it grow in the previous 20 years > Nayib Bukele is the most interesting politician in America today that says a lot about the state of politics in America...

shyn3 4y ago
- LBJsPNS 4y ago
  Please stop with the bullshit. And yes, if you're trying to claim Joe Biden doesn't know his own name, You're full of it.
  - shyn3 4y ago
    - arinlen 4y ago
      > I mean is it wrong to fathom he doesn't know his own name? Yes, it's pathetic. Please stop generating noise in an otherwise interesting discussion over El Salvador.
      - shyn3 4y ago
        It's actually hilarious and a poor representation on the education system and the populace. Your other point is valid.
neither_color 4y ago
He's also cut the homicide down to below some major US cities. The homicide rate fell from 38 per 100,000 to 18 per 100,000. Most people have only heard of him because of Bitcoin and so their own biases of Bitcoin cloud their judgment of Bukele. Locally he's a legend. He objectively handled Covid better than many countries around him(bested only by Costa Rica and Panama, which are already considered comparatively more developed than El Salvador). His foray into Bitcoin is considered a mistake of ambition not one of corruption. To put that into context the previous administration of El Salvador is accused of embezzling $300,000,000 USD. I wish more schadenfreude articles about El Salvador would include that fact.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  > He's also cut the homicide down to below some major US cities. that's not a great benchmark US homicide rate is 10 times worse than my country and my country is just average... Los Angeles alone in a year had more homicides than my entire country (303 vs 279) but my country has 60 million people living in it, LA only 4 million. > To put that into context the previous administration of El Salvador is accused of embezzling $300,000,000 USD small potatoes and who accuses them? is this president liked by the US? because Lula is only the last one of a long line of former south american presidents destroyed by US propaganda to put there someone more "friendly" Lula was innocent BTW
  - ReadTheLicense 4y ago
    > that's not a great benchmark > US homicide rate is 10 times worse than my country and my country is just average... Cool, but you have to compare El Salvador to its peers. How much money and continuity does your state have compared to ES? Even the poorest [GDP per capita] European Union states have literally multiple orders of magnitude bigger state budgets than ES. Getting homicide rate in Americas under the US average is a huge achievement, especially given how quick it was and how hopeless it seemed just a few years ago. > small potatoes Hahahahahah, maybe for you. It's the entire yearly budget deficit for El Salvador. These 700 million were the difference between life and death for many El Salvadorans who couldn't get their pensions or healthcare payouts raised with the inflation. Perhaps you could donate some "small potatoes", they really need it and it seems like you have more than enough. > Lula was innocent BTW I guess your investigation has turned up a new suspect?