Back in 2023, I did a post called “Why Can’t Everything Be Free?” and people were asking, “Is this how far our society has gone downhill?
Back in 2023, I did a post called “Why Can’t Everything Be Free? ” and people were asking, “Is this how far our society has gone downhill? Are there people so dumb that we need to explain to them why everything can’t just be free?” Yes, there are. Many of them are probably the same people who think that we don’t need prisons. Now you might think people like that are just random idiots on Reddit, but many of these people are prominent on the Left. Like whom? Well, let me give you just a few examples. Briahna Joy Gray, a political correspondent who used to be Bernie Sanders’ press secretary: Francesca Hong, who’s running for governor of Wisconsin: New Yorker Darializa Avila Chevalier, who was strongly supported by Bernie…Open
Lurking behind Trump aligned leaders such as Javier Milei, Daniel Noboa, Jair Bolsonaro, and Nayib Bukele are lesser known but highly influential operatives who dictate the course of events in their countries.
Perhaps the most consequential of these figures is Fernando Cerimedo, a top advisor to the right-wing Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, who’s known as MAGA’s man in Latin America. On August 18, Cerimedo was arrested and accused of masterminding an attack that would have killed his ex-girlfriend, the Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, who is pregnant. Beller miraculously survived four shots at point-blank range, and from her hospital bed, in a desperate bid to avoid being murdered, she denounced Cerimedo. The Grayzone reports on how Cerimedo's testimony exposes much more than her ex's lethal intentions. Beller reveals an entire network of CIA assets manipulating Latin American politics on behalf of Trump's Washington, and explains how a deluge…Open
Toadying to Washington is not a durable platform for the region. The post The Poverty of the Latin American Right appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Poverty of the Latin American Right Toadying to Washington is not a durable platform for the region. Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP via Getty Images On June 21, Colombians narrowly elected the right-wing lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella to the presidency over the leftist candidate Iván Cepeda. Since 2023, right-wingers have won 11 of the past 13 elections in Latin America. De la Espriella’s victory comes as a jewel in the crown for the Trump administration and its so-called “Donroe Doctrine.” Sadly, the track record of recent conservative governments in the Americas—with the exception of El…Open
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has announced negotiations with El Salvador to deport foreign criminals to the Central American country.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is discussing transferring foreign criminals to El Salvador, led by President Nayib Bukele, with the Central American country. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: On Monday, it was revealed that Reform will send a team of negotiators, led by party chairman Lee Anderson, to El Salvador. This follows discussions about the possibility of a Reform-led government renting prison space in El Salvador to alleviate prison overcrowding. The negotiations between Reform and the El Salvador government are scheduled to take place later this year. The announcement of potential co-operation between a Reform government and El Salvador coincides with Farage’s commitment to build “Nightingale” prisons. These…Open
I saw the volcano before I saw the prison. Guards lined the tropical road beneath the active San Vicente, where we had already been stopped and frisked before our van was allowed to continue. Soon, we arrived at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, the massive prison built in 2023 to house the country’s worst of the worst: thousands of convicted murderers from the gangs that had terrorized the nation for decades. (RELATED: From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown) Upon seeing the 57 acres of concrete walls that made up the prison’s exterior, my mind immediately turned to Edmund Burke’s notion of the sublime: the often-overlooked cousin of beauty that, rather than delighting…Open
The Daily Caller is set to release an exclusive documentary Friday, Inside CECOT, which tells the story of El Salvador’s most famous prison and its role in freeing the Latin American nation from decades of brutal gang violence. Inside CECOT features extensive interviews with the key players behind the prison, including some of the criminals incarcerated in the facility itself — including Marvin Vásquez, a founding member of MS-13’s Crazy Criminal clique. The documentary details how Salvadoran leaders, including President Nayib Bukele and Vice President Félix Ulloa, have used the prison to house the country’s worst-of-the-worst criminals, breaking the stranglehold of violent criminal gangs over the country and clearing the…Open
From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
Although it may now be leading the conversation in safety and law enforcement, El Salvador reached that point only after a decades-long crucible, often exchanging the tyranny of military dictators for the subjugation of street kingpins. While it is impossible to pinpoint what began the decades of bloodshed in El Salvador, there is little debate over what ended them: the decisive yet controversial crackdown by the country’s current president, Nayib Bukele. In fact, Bukele’s campaign proved so effective that — for the most part — the only criticism from his foreign opponents remains that he came down too hard on the gangs and failed to do enough to protect the rule of law for those accused. Despite this, Bukele maintains an…Open
From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
Although it may now be leading the conversation in safety and law enforcement, El Salvador reached that point only after a decades-long crucible, often exchanging the tyranny of military dictators for the subjugation of street kingpins. While it is impossible to pinpoint what began the decades of bloodshed in El Salvador, there is little debate over what ended them: the decisive yet controversial crackdown by the country’s current president, Nayib Bukele. In fact, Bukele’s campaign proved so effective that — for the most part — the only criticism from his foreign opponents remains that he came down too hard on the gangs and failed to do enough to protect the rule of law for those accused. Despite this, Bukele maintains an…Open
Colombian voters handed conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, known colloquially as “El Tigre,” a hard-fought victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff. In a stunning rebuke to the radical left, Colombian voters handed conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, known colloquially as “El Tigre,” a hard-fought victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff. President Trump, who offered his full-throated endorsement […] The post Dominos Continue to Fall in Latin America’s MAGA Renaissance appeared first on StoneZone .
Colombian voters handed conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, known colloquially as “El Tigre,” a hard-fought victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff. In a stunning rebuke to the radical left, Colombian voters handed conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, known colloquially as “El Tigre,” a hard-fought victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff. President Trump, who offered his full-throated endorsement to El Tigre, immediately declared de la Espriella “won easily” and predicted a “much better relationship” between Washington and Bogotá moving forward. Cepeda has refused to concede pending further verification, as current President Gustavo Petro whines about non-existent fraud , but the mandate is…Open