Tangential, but ... I thought I would share. The author of this LA Times article?

She first learned of bitcoin from me. I was having a conversation with a politician she was trailing, and the topic of bitcoin came up. She listened but was mostly uninterested in it, as far as I could tell.

Anyway, she's written a couple of hit pieces on Bukele. That's her job, ... make him look bad for the piece of shit news media she works for. And she is a good writer, and does a very good job at doing what they pay her to do.

As El Salvador adopts Bitcoin, its young president is dismantling democracy https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-el-salvador-adopts-bitcoin-its-young-president-is-dismantling-democracy/

El Salvador’s president buys bitcoins ‘naked,’ he boasts. His experiment is costing his nation millions https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/el-salvadors-president-buys-bitcoins-naked-he-boasts-his-experiment-is-costing-his-nation-millions/

So anyway, I don't take a single thing she writes seriously.

I am not making excuses for Bukele's heavy hand in gang violence but I live in one of the most dangerous cities in the world when it comes to murder and I can tell you there is no other way to deal with it under a fiat system

Once gangsterism takes hold its pretty hard to weed it out, even the heavy hand is only a temporary solution, it just further drives them underground and radicalises them. As long as the profit motive in gangsterism is a higher premium than you can get elsewhere these movements will keep growing