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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-bukele-deportation-deal-cecot-prison-el-salvador/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-bukele-depo.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-bukele-deportation-deal-cecot-prison-el-salvador/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-bukele-depo... > Bukele’s government had previously negotiated with MS-13 and other violent gangs it publicly claimed to be cracking down on, El Faro found. Those negotiations, documents showed, involved offering privileges to gang leaders in prison, in exchange for a reduction in homicides and voter support in territories the gangs controlled. Not sure that’s a great model to emulate.

bko 2mo ago
> Over the past ten years, El Salvador’s crime rate has experienced a historic transformation, plummeting by roughly 98%. Homicides dropped from a devastating peak of 103 to 105 per 100,000 residents in 2015—when it was considered one of the world's murder capitals—to a historic low of approximately 1.3 per 100,000 residents. Yeah, I think its a great model to emulate.
- ceejayoz 2mo ago
  You think suspending the Constitution, the world's highest incarceration rate, and making deals with organized crime to get votes are good to emulate?