Jury is out. He is certainly a promoter. He certainly has a strongman political tendency but I find it hard to judge his actions considering the condition the nation was in when he took over. It's easy to pass judgement from western democracies on the third world and how they should be more like us but the reality is liberal democratic tactics probably aren't going to turn things around. I am not trying to be an apologist just because he is pro bitcoin, just trying to consider that cleaning up an absolute mess might be messy.

I defer to the three people I know from El Salvador who used to work for me, they all love him. They live in Canada, they have family back home, they have no incentive to lie or feel pressed to speak ill of him if they were concerned about the direction the country was going, so I take them at their word.