El Salvador used to be one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Beginning in March 2022, President Bukele began the crackdown on gang crime, imprisoning 70,000 people. CECOT houses 40,000 of the worst criminals in stark conditions and there are 80 men to a cell. Many have tattoos with the motto “Laugh Now, Pay Later.” The men, mostly in their 20s, will never see sunlight or their families again.
The journalist was allowed a short interview with an inmate, Psycho.
President Trump recently met with President Bukele and proposed paying El Salvador to house violent, habitual criminals, both foreign migrants and also Americans, in the Central American country. It is far less expensive to imprison criminals in El Salvador than America.
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...