The Tucker Carlson Show - June 06, 2024


President Nayib Bukele: Seeking God’s Wisdom, Taking Down MS-13, and His Advice to Donald Trump


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1 hour and 7 minutes

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171.03041

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11,512

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21

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

In this episode, we talk to the President of El Salvador, Juan Carlos Varela, about his journey to becoming the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere, and how he managed to turn it into one of the safest and most peaceful countries in the world. We talk about how he did it, and the lessons he learned from the lessons that he and his team learned in order to turn El Salvador into a place of peace and prosperity for all its people. We also talk about his plans for the future of the country, and what it means to be a leader in a country that is not only safe, but a place that is peaceful and prosperous, and a place where you can do whatever you need to do to live your best life in a peaceful, prosperous and prosperous society. We're not gatekeepers, we are brokers. We are honest brokers, here to tell you what we think you should know and do it honestly. Check out all of our content at tuckercarlson.co/thetuckercarlson to get the most impactful stories you can get from The Tucker Carlson Show wherever you get your news and opinions from the world's most influential global influencers. Here's the episode: Mr. President, thank you for having us at his camp, David, and we hope you enjoy the episode! -Tucker Carlson and keep sharing it with the rest of the world! Thank you for listening to The Tucker Carlsson Show! -Eduardo (Tucker Carlson ( ) ( ) ( )( ) ( ( ). ( ) ( . ( . ) ( ), ( ), ( ),( ) . , ( ) , ( . . ) . ( ) . , :) ( ) & ( ) ? ? ( , . . . ( ). & ,( . . ) ? ( . , , . ? , ) ? ( ) Thank you, Mr. ( ) : ... ( ) and ( ) ! [ . : (?) ( ) ; ( ) ... And, ; ( ] ) , and , , ( ; ) , ... ( : , etc., ) ; , & ), | ! ( ? ) . ( .


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00:00:00.000 welcome to the tucker carlson show we bring you stories that have not been showcased anywhere else
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00:00:26.300 at tucker carlson.com here's the episode mr president thank you for having us thank you
00:00:31.360 at your camp david which is beautiful um so you were inaugurated two days ago this is a small
00:00:38.120 country and yet your inauguration was international news was everywhere why why do you think that is
00:00:44.380 well it was a shock for for us too i mean we know we knew that a lot of uh people were was
00:00:49.960 were coming and and i mean that will draw some attention of course we have uh we had big
00:00:56.220 delegations from a lot with 110 countries uh so of course that will draw news because you know if a
00:01:03.820 chancellor comes from a country then he brings his you know his media team and that and that will
00:01:08.560 create some news over there and if a president comes or a king comes that will create some news
00:01:13.580 even you you came so you know that creates some news but uh why were they coming well i don't
00:01:20.960 know different different reasons of course i i could ask you why did you come right i came because
00:01:26.860 i think something remarkable is happening here that's why but i'm interested in why you think
00:01:31.500 people came yeah i uh different reasons definitely different different reasons for example the
00:01:37.340 uh the u.s government sent a uh big delegation but then we have a we had also a delegation from
00:01:45.440 congress yes that started as a republican delegation but then the democrats jump in the wagon and we have
00:01:51.160 a by part we had a bipartisan delegation from congress so you know it's like uh so it adds up i i don't know
00:02:00.640 at the end what happened but i think that it's like it's like how a star you know how stars are born
00:02:05.720 they say that you know debris it starts joining up and it and if they be they become an asteroid
00:02:12.480 but if more debris joins up it becomes a planet because the you know the gravitational pull
00:02:18.500 the more debris comes up it becomes a star because then the gravitational pull is too big
00:02:23.760 so that's uh that's called critical mass so i don't know sometimes just you know by by because you
00:02:31.680 know god wants it like that or just a stroke of luck or whatever
00:02:34.560 uh you get some critical mass in something you're doing and then it becomes bigger than what you
00:02:41.060 than the the sum of all of its parts so i don't know probably got some critical mass that we didn't
00:02:47.060 we didn't foresee my guess is that of all the countries in the hemisphere el salvador seemed
00:02:53.100 in the toughest shape or close to the bottom in the rankings for everything yes yes lacking
00:02:59.560 abundant natural resources etc this is the country was born is that true yes i mean the country has
00:03:05.040 been poor since it was born yeah lacking everything basically lacking everything with a dense population
00:03:11.500 a lot of people packed in yeah um so what do you how did you change it i guess i'll cut right to it
00:03:19.320 if you can fix el salvador what are the lessons for the rest of us what did you do first
00:03:22.900 well of course uh you cannot do anything if you don't have peace right and when i say peace i i
00:03:32.140 include war civil wars invasion uh crime i mean you need to have peace you need to be able to move
00:03:40.620 freely to have your your basic uh basic rights respected uh uh starting with the with the right to to live
00:03:51.140 the right to move the right to have property so you need your basic rights being to be respected so you
00:03:59.040 need peace that's the first thing a society will struggle to achieve and once you uh once you achieve peace
00:04:07.620 peace then you can struggle for all the other things like you know uh
00:04:11.580 uh infrastructure wealth yes uh well-being quality of life but you have to start with peace so we we
00:04:21.520 we had to start with peace and in the case of el salvador we will we're literally the murder capital
00:04:25.900 of the world yes and we turn it into the safest country in the western hemisphere we're safer than
00:04:31.600 any other country in the western hemisphere which is you know it was if i if i would have said that
00:04:36.300 five years ago they would say that i was crazy right yes because this was the literally the most
00:04:41.220 dangerous country in the whole world your capital is now safer than our capital yes yes yes and the
00:04:47.260 country is safer than the united states as a whole yes uh the the u.s murder rates around six murders
00:04:53.460 per 100 000 inhabitants and our murder rate is two so we're safer than canada safer than chile is safer
00:04:59.700 than uruguay safer than the u.s safer than any country in the western hemisphere there are countries in the
00:05:04.960 in the other hemisphere that are safer than salvador but not in the not in the western hemisphere
00:05:08.980 so you did that in just a couple years yes we did that in basically in three years
00:05:15.780 so what just bottom line it for us what's the formula well i can tell you the official formula and
00:05:23.580 the real formula okay so the official formula is that we did a plan i mean we did a plan it's not
00:05:30.420 that when i say official i mean it's a lie it's just you know the official one we did a a a plan
00:05:37.200 that was comprised of phases so we roll up the first phase then the next one then the next one
00:05:43.180 and then uh gangs started attacking back so we need to we had to roll up everything at once like in a in a
00:05:50.760 hurry so and um and it it worked it worked in a couple of weeks uh we we the country was transformed
00:05:59.200 because the gangs were were not yet arrested but they were in the run so we had we basically
00:06:06.620 uh in the roll up of phase six we basically uh pacified the country in a couple of weeks
00:06:16.000 how do you do that how do you pacify a country well with the phases included uh building up of the
00:06:22.440 police forces the army we doubled the army we literally doubled the army to fight crime to to
00:06:28.140 to to use the army to fight crime and uh we equipped them uh before like soldiers we didn't have like
00:06:35.500 you know like useful guns or you know uh vehicles drones you know basic things that that uh
00:06:45.240 an operation of that magnitude would need so
00:06:49.700 yeah we we we roll up the phases and then and then we we we went after them okay so that's the
00:06:59.560 official that's the official yeah that's the official what what's what's the real it's a miracle
00:07:04.660 it's a miracle yeah i love that what do you mean yeah it's a miracle you know uh
00:07:11.060 when when gangs started uh to attacking us back basically they they killed uh 87 people in three
00:07:22.180 days which for a country of six million people it's it's crazy would be the equivalent uh 60 times
00:07:32.080 would be the equivalent of having 5 000 deaths in three days in three five thousand murders
00:07:37.600 in the u.s in three days wow yeah so we were in we were in a meeting and well when when it started
00:07:45.720 not when it ended but when it started we were in the meeting at my office 3 a.m 4 a.m just watching
00:07:52.720 you know the the what was happening and trying to figure out what to do because the problem with
00:07:57.520 gangs is that um they don't they don't only attack their objectives when they want to create terror
00:08:06.700 they can attack anyone so they can actually kill their grandma yes and it's your victim yes because
00:08:14.560 they don't care about their grandma you you care about their grandma so it's your victim is if they
00:08:18.580 kill their grandma you have one one death and they have uh you know they achieved the terror that they
00:08:26.180 want to create so they can kill any anybody a woman walking by a guy and working in the street a taxi
00:08:33.700 driver you know they can kill anybody and if the if the if the state goes after them the state has no
00:08:41.380 intention of of um killing or harming anybody but the gang members so you have you have 70 000
00:08:50.660 objectives which were the 70 000 gang members but they have six million possible targets
00:08:59.220 so it was almost an impossible task it's a guerrilla war really yes it is but it was an impossible task
00:09:08.020 because you you have to go after them they were intertwined with the population they were everywhere
00:09:14.100 and they were killing randomly so how do you stop them so we really would try to figure out what to do
00:09:21.380 and uh and uh i basically said well we i mean it's we we are we're looking at into an impossible impossible
00:09:32.180 mission here so we pray and uh and we and we you prayed in the meeting yes yes of course several times
00:09:44.340 yeah yeah what did you pray for now to the wisdom to to win the war to have i thought at the time that
00:09:53.060 we would have civilian casualties so we we said we prayed that the civilian casualties will be as low as
00:10:00.020 possible and we didn't have any civilian casualties and was everyone in the meeting comfortable with that
00:10:07.940 yes yes they are every almost security cabinet are believers they all believe in god we're a secular
00:10:17.540 country of course but we all believe in god so yeah ms 13 is one of the major gangs and they are satanic
00:10:23.140 also that was my question so very little no no no but i i hope you will explain it because very little
00:10:28.740 has been written in the west about this they're satanic yes but but actually literally can you explain
00:10:35.780 well uh they didn't start as a satanic organization they they ms 13 started in in in los angeles in the us
00:10:44.980 because uh salvadorans weren't allowed to sell drugs by the mexican gangs so they created a gang
00:10:55.700 that was called um a the 18th street gang because they basically wanted to sell drugs in
00:11:01.380 in in a street that was 18th street over there but then uh division started to to create to
00:11:11.620 they started dividing themselves and started infighting so they created the ms 13 and uh and then ms 13
00:11:20.020 started started out growing the other gangs and they started you know exporting the organization to
00:11:27.460 other parts of the us and when bill clinton decided to uh deport those guys he didn't tell our government
00:11:35.940 at the time i'm deporting this criminal they just you know send them here and they came there were few
00:11:43.540 but unchecked at the same time some some laws were passed to protect minors from imprisonment
00:11:51.540 and of course the gangs used that to recruit 15 year olds 16 year olds 17 year olds so at the beginning
00:11:58.740 it was you know uh some youth causing harm assaulting you know trying to control their territories selling
00:12:07.300 drugs things that are bad but you know probably not critical but they grew they grew they grew and they
00:12:14.900 started controlling territories a few years a few years later they were actually a huge criminal and
00:12:21.540 huge international criminal organization that they have bases in italy uh guatemala honduras el salvador
00:12:28.900 the us basically a lot of major cities in the u.s will have strongholds right outside washington dc
00:12:36.340 yes of course and you have in in long island and yes in l.a it's it's it's a huge criminal international organization so
00:12:48.740 um so so they grew and they started you know uh killing more people to just to get territory or to fight
00:12:55.380 against rival gangs or to you know collect debts or you know money or whatever but as the organization grew
00:13:03.860 they became satanic they started doing satanic rituals i don't know exactly when that started but
00:13:08.500 it was well documented yes and we in our arrest we've even found the authors and things like that
00:13:14.260 yes i've seen them and um and so it's they became a a satanic organization and even when when you uh
00:13:21.940 sometimes when you interview uh gang members that are in prison they would say i'm out of the gang of
00:13:27.940 course they're in prison but they would say i'm not a member of the gang anymore and when they asked
00:13:31.780 them why i remember one i remember the news outlet that made it this this but it's a you know very
00:13:37.780 well-known news outlet that made this interview with a gang member in person we allowed them to go
00:13:41.780 into prisons and and do the interviews and the guy that they asked him how many people have you killed
00:13:48.180 and he said i don't remember yeah he didn't remember how many probably 10 20 he didn't remember
00:13:56.260 and then they asked him and are you what is your position in the gang he explained how he went up
00:14:02.180 in positions but i left the gang i said how why do you left the gang he said well because uh i was i mean
00:14:09.540 i was you i was used to kill there i was used to to kill people um but i killed for territory i killed for to
00:14:20.260 collect uh money i killed for extortion but i came to the you know to this house and they were they
00:14:28.740 were about to kill a baby and he the killer that had killed tens of people said oh wait what are we
00:14:34.900 doing wait why why are we going to kill that baby and they told him because the beast asked for a baby
00:14:42.340 so we have to give him the baby so he said that he couldn't resist that so he left the gang
00:14:47.060 he's in prison because you know he's a killer but he left the gang because he couldn't uh tolerate
00:14:54.420 what he was seeing so human sacrifice was a part well in the in the united states a couple of weeks
00:15:00.020 ago or a couple of days ago i don't remember exactly i saw the news that they were they were going to
00:15:04.100 kill a young girl or they killed a young girl and they don't exactly remember because it was a it was
00:15:08.900 a satanic ritual what happened in the u.s a couple of weeks ago you may have come to the obvious
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00:15:49.620 tucker carlson dot com slash podcast you will not regret it so that's almost never described no in
00:15:58.340 english language press as clearly as you just described it no which is weird right well you sort of wonder
00:16:05.140 why yeah if there's a spiritual component that's driving it why not just say so yes but i guess
00:16:11.380 my point is you saw it as that yes yes of course there's a spiritual war and there's a physical
00:16:17.620 war and the physical war could be that's a that's the unofficial yes that's the unofficial version uh
00:16:24.580 the spiritual if you win the spiritual war it will reflect into the physical war so our i think our
00:16:32.340 i don't know what i would call it our impressive uh
00:16:40.900 victory was because we won the spiritual war very very fast well that leads me i didn't because
00:16:49.380 you didn't have competition i mean there were satanic i think that made it easier
00:16:55.700 in your inaugural and i was listening on headphones for the translations i just want to check this you
00:17:01.940 said we have achieved this great victory and made this a safe country and that's the predicate for
00:17:06.980 everything that follows and the next thing we're going to do in this term is to is to work in the
00:17:11.220 economy to make it better grow the economy yeah and you said i have a correct me if i'm wrong you said
00:17:14.820 i have a three-point plan and i'm thinking i wonder what that is i don't know start a federal reserve
00:17:19.380 bank and you said the first the first point of my plan is seek god's wisdom yes that is what you said
00:17:26.100 yeah i said that yeah why why would that be the first point of an economic why wouldn't it be
00:17:32.020 or what should be the first part of the well i think it should be yeah but i can't most people
00:17:36.740 will think that right i just i've never heard any leader of any country because because they're they
00:17:44.260 probably they forgot to represent the people that elect them that elect them yeah it's like you ask
00:17:50.820 most of the people that elect the politicians they said yeah that's that's fine yeah i believe that
00:17:55.860 but then you ask the politician and he said no no no that's not so who who is who is he tried to
00:18:01.380 pander into i mean it doesn't make sense right do you think it's a common sense thing to seek god's
00:18:10.180 wisdom of course yeah it's a prerequisite for wise decision making yes exactly so that's the first
00:18:15.940 part of our plan it's really it makes me laugh um do you think that that's one of the reasons that
00:18:24.740 your successes which are just measurable i'm not saying this for ideological reasons just a fact
00:18:28.980 that you've transformed the country in a good way and that you're literally the most popular elected
00:18:32.500 leader in the world again not speculation provable fact you'd think that would be greeted in the
00:18:37.540 hemisphere it's this amazing thing like what's going on in el salvador and instead
00:18:42.420 there's been this what's going on in el salvador yeah there's been hostility yes do you think that's
00:18:46.980 why i'm not sure but one of the reasons is that we don't pander to them so probably they don't like
00:18:54.180 that it's it's probably a reason it's like um like there's um i'm not going to go into conspiracy
00:19:05.300 theory i'm going to go into into provable facts right like you said so there's uh there's worldwide
00:19:13.300 agendas right this is this are provable facts right they they they have benchmarks that they need the
00:19:18.580 countries to follow and they need the countries to do this is you know out there right and
00:19:26.260 but sometimes if you work on those things you're probably neglecting the important things for your
00:19:33.060 people the the things that your people are really asking for give you an example when we arrested the
00:19:40.180 gang members that were killing that were killing so much people that we were the murder capital of
00:19:46.340 the world literally the most dangerous place in the whole world more dangerous than haiti
00:19:52.580 right more dangerous than iraq this is what's literally the most dangerous country in the world
00:19:58.580 we have triple the the amount of the murder rate that haiti has right now with all the mayhem that
00:20:05.940 they have we have triple that here so what what do we have to what do you have to do you have to stop
00:20:12.420 that right i mean it's like it's a no-brainer i mean you have you don't have to you you you don't even
00:20:18.020 need to have a big thought process you just you have to stop that that's the first thing you have to do
00:20:21.860 do when we did when we did that we got huge condemnations you you name it say an organization
00:20:32.100 we got a condemnation from them so and they were and they and and a lot of them were human rights
00:20:38.260 organizations and you would ask but with the human what about the human right of a woman not to be raped
00:20:45.060 i mean what about the human right of kids to you know to to play or to be free or to you know go to
00:20:50.340 the park and what about the human right to live or the human right to walk in the street right and
00:20:58.180 but no they were they were worried about the human rights of the of the killers
00:21:02.980 which you know they have human rights i don't say they don't they're humans
00:21:07.060 but but if you have to prioritize what will you prioritize yes the human rights are the honest
00:21:13.700 hard-working decent people not the not the not the human rights that they do have
00:21:17.300 but you will not you won't prioritize the the human rights of the killers and rapists and murderers
00:21:24.740 and um so we we secured the country and we did it with no help from any other country
00:21:32.900 and with huge huge condemnation in everything that we were doing everything i mean we we changed the
00:21:38.340 attorney general we got so much condemnation because if we change the attorney general
00:21:42.900 that we need to change to prosecute the you know the the murderers so we we basically we we
00:21:51.300 they tried to block every step of what we were doing and uh and now
00:22:00.260 it's that the results are there that it's you know they're tangible measurable
00:22:04.500 um undeniable now they they don't know what to do because a lot of other countries are saying maybe
00:22:13.780 a lot of other countries similar to ours they have similar problems they are saying maybe we should do
00:22:18.340 that too but they don't want that because that's not in their agenda but i i guess that's why i came
00:22:25.060 here to be totally honest is what your success says about the country that i live in or other countries
00:22:32.020 in the hemisphere or in europe where people are killed by the thousands every year
00:22:39.140 and what you've proven with very little money and no help from anyone else is it's not that hard to fix
00:22:45.060 therefore all that killing must be a voluntary decision that my government and many other governments
00:22:50.500 are making about their own citizens you can make that that logical well i don't know what other
00:22:56.900 conclusion to reach if el salvador can do it what are we what's going on here yes you can make that
00:23:00.980 logical conclusion i think that's probably what they are afraid of because i mean we don't have
00:23:06.900 uh weapons of mass destruction right no so we why are they afraid why why would they take so much
00:23:12.820 time and make condemnations to el salvador right it doesn't make any sense you didn't send a man to the
00:23:17.620 moon exactly what yeah so i think i think they're afraid of the example because a lot of people might
00:23:23.700 say hey we want that too if they can do it with no money with very few resources and with a huge problem
00:23:29.860 because i heard some people say oh the subway could do it because the problem was not that big
00:23:34.500 and like we're literally the murder capital of the world how big can it how bigger can it get right
00:23:40.020 we were literally the most dangerous place in the world three times more dangerous than haiti right now
00:23:44.900 so i mean what bigger can it how bigger can the problem get and at the same time we had little
00:23:53.860 very few resources and we were able to do it with no civilian casualties after we started the war on
00:24:00.740 gangs we had no civilian casualties and we we um we lost eight uh between police officers and soldiers
00:24:10.900 and we basically eradicated all crime so and we and we and we arrested 70 000 gang members which the
00:24:20.980 number is not the number that just came up that's the official number that all the organizations said
00:24:26.260 we had of gang members and and and you can i mean you can watch the world bank reports etc they said
00:24:33.700 el salvador has around 70 000 gang members at 500 000 collaborators so we spared the collaborators
00:24:39.620 basically and we only got the gang members why because most of the collaborators were just you
00:24:44.100 know family members or you know the woman that sell tortillas and she had to tell oh the police
00:24:48.740 is coming because if not she would she would probably have been killed by the gang so most of the
00:24:53.140 collaborators were not really criminals yes but just people living in a society that was controlled
00:24:58.100 by by gangs the government was really was the real government was the gangs just like in haiti you
00:25:03.300 have a you have a fake government you have the real government the government haiti is the gangs
00:25:07.460 it was it was like that you had you had a formal government of course with offices and everything
00:25:11.860 but you have the real government in the territory which were the gangs so i mean and i know you want
00:25:17.860 to stick to the facts but i mean at some point you do have to i mean this is a really important
00:25:21.860 question why would a government that has the means to end violent crime not all there's always
00:25:28.020 me crime people breaking laws but violent people murdering and raping each other yes is a voluntary
00:25:32.900 decision that a government makes why would a government choose to have that
00:25:39.140 i don't know i don't i don't know i can i can make up theories but i really but you have a gut
00:25:44.260 instinct about it uh i think it's a combination of factors like everything yes they have they might be
00:25:50.420 evil people that you know have that are doing it on purpose of course and probably planning stuff i
00:25:56.100 don't know yes uh yeah possibly at the same time there's a lot of people that they just being fed
00:26:02.660 these ideologies and they think they're doing the right thing yes right like allowing allowing
00:26:07.700 shoplifting for example that's the most stupid thing you can think of but they do it oh you don't
00:26:12.420 allow shoplifting here no of course not so but you would think how why would anybody think allowing
00:26:21.460 shoplifting lifting would be a good idea i don't know why why i mean that's this is stupidest thing
00:26:26.580 to think right or giving away drugs i said this yes or giving away drugs let's give away drugs right
00:26:33.060 it's like it's like very stupid things and you would you would guess that some of the people doing
00:26:38.100 and i mean enacting these policies are not necessarily evil they're just you know they've been fed this
00:26:44.660 idea they think they're doing the right thing it's like i'll give you an example uh i think
00:26:51.220 a month ago or something like that yeah like a month uh the spanish police arrested a gang member
00:26:59.060 that that has fled that had fled el salvador so the guy member escaped he he flew he flew he went to
00:27:06.820 spain and with an international operation between the police of our police and the spanish police and
00:27:13.860 interpol they were able to arrest the guy so in that in those cases you didn't need you need to do an
00:27:19.460 extradition because it's it's an automatic you know international operation so they just got the
00:27:23.860 guy you know process him and send him yes send him to the original police for they filed the claim
00:27:30.020 so the spanish police was very proud of the of the arrest so they put it up they put it up in twitter
00:27:36.180 so they said we just arrested this gang member so i i uh you know quoted the tweet and i said
00:27:44.260 great send them we'll take care of him right so that was used in his court hearing in spain as a
00:27:54.980 proof that he wouldn't get a fair trial here so he was protected by spanish laws and he stayed there in
00:28:01.700 spain maybe they don't have enough gang members in spain exactly so uh i mean i don't care if they
00:28:08.340 want to keep him it's a it's a mouth that we don't have to feed it's a mouth that we don't have to feed
00:28:12.420 right but uh so they can keep him but the thing is that you would think why would why would this
00:28:19.700 spanish government want to gang an extra gang member yeah yes it's not necessarily out of evil
00:28:26.260 it's just that you know the laws the system the the things that are being fed to the to the judge to
00:28:32.100 the prosecutor so they think that you know that my tweet was to mean and you know this gang member
00:28:38.340 his rights will be you know uh not respected or he wouldn't get a fair trial in the sabler so he had
00:28:44.420 to stay in spain to be protected you know i mean they know he's a they know he's a killer they actually
00:28:50.740 arrested him because of that it was an international operation and everything they know is you know he
00:28:55.940 probably murdered dozens of people but they they need they feel the need to protect them so what's
00:29:01.780 sad about that is that that's a sign that your defense mechanism no longer works yes and that
00:29:07.140 your society is dying yes and spain is a wonder in my opinion a wonderful civilization is is is
00:29:12.580 reaching a point into it's it's just it will start failing i think that's obvious to those of us with
00:29:19.620 great sadness to those of us who live here unless things are done of course you can you can you can
00:29:24.020 always you can always do so okay two part question why do you think that's happening because it is
00:29:28.900 what is recognizably happening in real time before us and what can be done at this point to reverse it
00:29:35.940 well you know everything everything erodes and degrades i mean that's you know just a loss of
00:29:41.540 of nature yes i mean we do that's why we die we age and we die yes you can slow it right you can you
00:29:47.220 know stay fit die yeah i mean you eventually gonna age and die yes you cannot you cannot avoid that
00:29:53.540 uh same happens with anything infrastructure you know i had a and an argument with my at the beginning
00:30:00.420 of the government i had an argument with uh with my ministry of public works my minister of public works
00:30:06.260 because there was a um there was this neighborhood that was built in an area that you shouldn't build
00:30:13.540 things so there it was a a mountain almost the the the the soil was basically flower so it was you know
00:30:22.100 that the mountain was falling and the houses were falling with them with the mountain so to to save the
00:30:29.380 people the ministry of public works started building a huge wall you know to to to stop the houses from
00:30:36.980 falling right so they they were building this huge wall and of course i can't micromanage everything so
00:30:45.380 when i saw the wall being built i called my minister i said what are you doing and you won't stop the mountain
00:30:52.260 and i said you should build let's build houses for for the people somewhere else it's it would be
00:30:59.220 cheaper and you know he said no no the the the wall will the wall will be fine we have you know uh
00:31:05.620 engineers from you know uh international corporation and everything it will be fine so they finished the
00:31:11.540 wall they inaugurated thing it didn't fall don't worry the the the way for that the way for that plot twist
00:31:18.180 but i was i was still angry because i i thought that it was a huge waste of money and and and a lot
00:31:23.220 of risk that if in the future the wall falls yes it'll be on us because we built it right of course
00:31:29.780 so i i started pressuring him why do you build that well what do you build a wall if the wall falls in
00:31:35.620 the future it would be an hour it would be our fault and i thought he grew tired of me as the pressuring he
00:31:41.140 said well everything that is made by humans needs maintenance i mean of course if we just leave the
00:31:47.860 wall there fall in 10 20 30 years but if we give maintenance to the wall the wall won't fall right
00:31:55.700 so so that that is stuck on me not because of the wall itself but because everything is like that yes in a
00:32:02.900 relationship yes that's right at home i mean everything i mean your hair your haircut you you
00:32:11.220 you need if you want to maintain it you need to spend time and resources and effort in maintaining it
00:32:18.340 so western civilization because you know civilization goes like this yes so western civilization reached
00:32:24.340 the peak i cannot point exactly where the peak is it's like time in the market right yes i'm gonna buy
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00:34:24.580 so that is happening because we're not maintaining we're not giving the correct maintenance to the
00:34:31.540 civilization why what made the west the leader in the world at the time we're living right now what
00:34:40.420 what caused that to happen a lot of things like you know importing the scientific process i started
00:34:50.420 you know developing science yes focusing you know putting a lot of money into art into science into
00:34:58.820 trying to build the best things and then you know that's fastest and as best and as great as possible
00:35:05.060 and you know importing uh wisdom and technology and trying to develop new technology and trying to you
00:35:13.620 know but suddenly uh when you get wealthy happens with families too yes it does then people probably
00:35:21.700 get spoiled or they get you know i want more things i want i want that i want this you have to provide me
00:35:26.660 that and you know politicians the problem i mean democracy is great right we the us has proven that
00:35:34.900 democracy can work um but the problem with democracy because everything has you know pros and cons
00:35:42.580 the problem with democracy is that politicians have a great incentive to offer
00:35:51.060 to give away the treasury yes so if i say no i'm going to keep the treasury
00:35:58.340 it's because we need we might need it you know for an emergency or something nobody would like that
00:36:02.340 people like oh i'm going to give away the treasury so they would vote for him then another person you
00:36:07.620 know what i'm going to give the treasury plus another treasury so we're going to go into that
00:36:11.460 right everybody will say great let's you know let's let's receive more money from the treasury and
00:36:16.900 when i say treasury i mean you know anything you know building stuff you know giving free stuff
00:36:21.380 sending checks to people covid relief yeah exactly you know getting you know stimulus whatever so
00:36:28.500 the politicians are have the incentives of you know just giving away the treasury and entering huge
00:36:37.380 amounts of debt and that doesn't not only destroys the the structure of the government but it also
00:36:45.700 destroys the structure of society because if you give for example money uh okay if you don't work i'll give
00:36:53.460 you i give you money right or if you uh if you can shoplift one thousand dollars a day and still get
00:37:04.980 some money from the government for food you know housing why would you work in that store we shoplifted
00:37:13.300 and probably get in trouble right so the incentives are wrong but it's not only because you know there's
00:37:18.980 maybe they are but i'm not going to go into conspiracy theories but it's not only because
00:37:23.620 there are evil politicians or evil people planning everything which might be the case but i won't go
00:37:28.980 into that but just because things you know the incentives are wrong yes so even a even a normal
00:37:37.860 not evil politician has the incentive to give away the treasury because he needs the votes i mean he needs to
00:37:43.700 be elected that's what he needs right he needs to vote it's the nature of the system yes it's the
00:37:47.620 nature of the system so the problem is that democracy works nobody can say it doesn't because
00:37:53.940 it worked in the united states right but if you don't maintain if you don't give maintenance to the
00:38:01.700 system it will fall like the wall if you don't give maintenance to it because it was the the same
00:38:09.700 system will degrade itself so what you're having right now is a huge uh erosion of of western
00:38:17.300 civilization so we have governments pandering to to their basis or what you know to their ideology
00:38:24.100 because they mobilized the vote or whatever looking at what would happen in the election what we can do to
00:38:31.620 get more votes in the election uh i don't want to get into u.s politics because you know it's not my
00:38:37.540 country but okay so we had this we have this huge voter uh group uh let's give them something to get
00:38:50.900 their vote let's give them i don't know a hundred thousand dollars each it makes sense right to get
00:38:56.580 their votes but it doesn't make sense for a country i mean why would you give a hundred thousand dollars to
00:39:00.500 each member of a voting group right should be illegal but it's not because who makes loss right it's the
00:39:07.140 government so the the system is eroding and uh and if maintenance is the maintenance team doesn't go in
00:39:16.900 and fix all the things that have been you know degrading the last you know 50 70 years
00:39:23.460 it will of course it will eventually fall so if the west doesn't continue to maintain its systems
00:39:29.700 which you have said i think correctly have worked really well for a couple hundred years
00:39:32.980 exactly they will degrade just like anything else made by human hands if you don't maintain it it will
00:39:36.980 fall like your house the question is does anyone in the west do its leaders have the will to fix the
00:39:44.180 system that is clearly failing do you think that will happen and if it doesn't what is the message
00:39:49.220 about democracy to the rest of the world well you know you know the the the fun thing about
00:39:58.580 about anything about any concept like democracy that it works until it doesn't right right that's
00:40:04.820 right it happened with monarchies it happened with you know right anything right um they say things
00:40:10.660 like oh you know we have to separate religion from state it worked it really worked but it also worked
00:40:16.980 religion with the state at their time yes so very well yes very well until they didn't
00:40:22.980 so so the the thing is that things work until they don't right so the problem is not democracy i mean
00:40:31.460 it's not the concept of democracy the concept of democracy is great i mean imagine how the power of
00:40:35.780 the people what why would the people have the power to to decide their own things it's like the most
00:40:40.900 i mean i really like the concept and and it's not not only a theoretical concept like communism
00:40:46.020 right it works i mean democracy has been proven to work
00:40:48.980 i mean it doesn't work george washington could have been king if he wanted to yes he'd been king
00:40:54.420 george the first right yes but he decided well not he but you know the founding fathers decided that
00:40:59.940 the us united states would be a democracy right and it worked nobody can say it didn't it worked
00:41:09.140 but so the fact that democracy appears to not be working i don't think it's because the concept
00:41:16.020 doesn't work like church separated from a state or church conjoined with the state yes it's just that
00:41:22.020 things work until they don't so the problem i think is not the concept of democracy itself but the the
00:41:29.940 state of the democracy of democracies in the world right now have we reached the end of the democratic
00:41:34.980 i don't know but it it's maybe the beginning of the end this if not if if a huge maintenance team
00:41:40.260 doesn't come and fix things it's like i this is not about geopolitics or anything i'm not going to
00:41:46.740 even mention the countries but i saw somebody showed me the 600 meter uh railway that was built in
00:41:57.220 california and it cost like i know 15 billion dollars something like that to build the 600 meter piece of
00:42:03.380 railway that they were that they were building it's a lot per meter yes so i mean you have to you
00:42:13.220 you cannot go on i mean it's like obvious it's like somebody eats too much right i mean you can be
00:42:19.220 a little fat right it's fine but then if somebody's morbidly fat it's it's somebody will come and say okay
00:42:25.060 i mean you have to stop right because you know your heart would your heart can't take it anymore
00:42:30.420 right you have to stop or somebody did the drinks i don't drink but if somebody somebody drinks doctor
00:42:36.260 might say you know your liver you know they can't take that anymore look at look at your liver how
00:42:42.340 it is how it is right now uh or the lungs for smoke or whatever you know um when you see things like
00:42:49.380 that 600 meters of railway 15 billion dollars 10 years
00:42:54.260 there's there's no other possible diagnosis i mean you have to stop that fast now because if not
00:43:04.340 it's i mean the the decline is inevitable it's inevitable i mean it's already there it's not like
00:43:10.180 you know i'm i'm telling you i foresee no no i mean i mean it's there i mean it's 15 billion dollars to
00:43:16.260 make a 600 meter piece of railroad that's not even working in 10 years the empire state was built in a year
00:43:23.860 one year one year they built empire state that's where that things were working right i i don't know
00:43:28.900 how were things back then i don't know but they built the empire state in one year
00:43:34.660 what happened with the world trade center freedom tower that was changed the name that later to
00:43:40.340 world trade center how long did it take forever yeah and it was you know the whole country united to
00:43:48.260 build it there was no budgetary i mean i know it was private but it was no if it needed budgetary
00:43:53.860 uh it was not a problem of budget or investors willing to pour money on it or engineers i mean
00:44:03.140 why would it take over a decade to build something that was so significant for the whole country
00:44:09.460 i mean you could build the tallest building in the world you didn't you could have built the tallest
00:44:13.620 building in the world and said okay we're coming back bigger and stronger we're going to build you
00:44:17.540 you know you you yeah yeah we we got a hit but now we're going to build back better and strong
00:44:22.500 build back better and stronger right or whatever and build it you know two mile high skyscraper i'm
00:44:28.020 not i'm not a fan of no two mile high skyscrapers but you know you could you could have done that
00:44:32.500 i mean you have you have the money you have the resources you have the engineers you have the the
00:44:36.420 market because if i built you know a mile skyscraper i i i can't fill with offices because i don't have
00:44:42.500 enough market to fill with residences and offices or whatever you do have the market in new york to
00:44:47.380 you know yeah to build offices and you want hotel rooms i mean it would feel like this but you didn't
00:44:53.780 you took over a decade to build a very unimpressive building so and that was
00:45:01.780 twenty three years ago yes now you're building 600 meter railways with 15 billion dollars so
00:45:16.740 how long did it would take to build to rebuild the baltimore bridge
00:45:21.220 should take a year how long would it take here here yeah a year two years and we're a small poor
00:45:29.700 country i mean we're the one of the poorest nations in in in the world right i know that's
00:45:35.060 that's why this is so shameful and interesting yeah well i mean the us are so they have
00:45:41.700 still unlimited amounts of resources because you can just bring money right that's another topic but
00:45:47.460 you can just bring whatever how much it's worth i mean would you want to do it but we want to build
00:45:52.180 it made of gold i mean you can do anything right you just how much is it do it so that sounds like a
00:45:58.420 systemic failure doesn't sound like it's a systemic failure yeah so what you're describing maybe can't
00:46:05.780 be you know maybe that's something that you like have to level and rebuild or something maybe that's
00:46:11.940 beyond maintenance i don't know what is the answer to that i don't know but uh but you need leadership
00:46:18.900 but i i'll tell you something if you see the mess that we were living here yes
00:46:23.780 yes it's a bigger mess than what you have over there yeah so oh yeah i mean so
00:46:33.380 well just the fact that a a third of our population fled the country i know i went to the united states
00:46:40.340 i know uh gives you an example that the mess we were living here and that we still have in in other
00:46:46.980 areas that you know not safety we're the safest country in the western hemisphere but we have problems
00:46:51.300 in other areas like the economy for example yeah um so but but our our problems were bigger than your
00:46:58.420 problems in relative sizes so you said you can if you can i mean if you can fix a mess like this
00:47:07.220 with in the us with unlimited amount of wealth with you know um scientists innovation like no other
00:47:15.300 country in the world still the innovation is coming from the us it's more than any other country still
00:47:20.420 right even not because of the government but you know it still it has the best innovators ai for sure
00:47:28.420 i mean anything so you still have the best innovators you still have the biggest companies
00:47:35.060 you still have the biggest the world reserve currency uh the biggest wealth the biggest gdp um
00:47:50.980 the the the availability to hire talent from anywhere you can bring whatever talent you you need
00:47:57.540 to fix any gaps you can you know pick pick any you get it you get what you what you want you still can
00:48:05.220 get what you want you can't get attacked because you're you're too far away you're too far away from
00:48:12.100 anyone that wants to attack you because mexico or canada are not going to attack the u.s
00:48:16.500 so your enemies are too far away and you still have the biggest army um maybe some forces so
00:48:26.420 biggest energy reserves yes and yeah and and the us like like russia they were built as superpowers
00:48:35.140 so it's not like uh for example if you see the economy the economy in spain it's very good it's a robust
00:48:41.540 economy is big g7 yeah but they are like uh uh how do you call how you say in english to run nugget
00:48:54.020 they sell nugget right yeah or they sell iberic ham yeah
00:49:01.940 so it's very good expensive but you don't actually need that right so luxury goods luxury goods so if
00:49:10.500 you sanction spain you will you'll break their economy but if you sanction russia you can't break
00:49:17.940 russia because they are built as a superpower yes so they have wheat they have energy they have a
00:49:22.740 natural gas oil yes because they were built like that industrial capacity industrial capacity factories
00:49:28.100 you know workers so the us is like that too it was built as a superpower so you have wheat you have
00:49:33.700 corn you have workers you have blue color workers you have trained skilled factory workers you have
00:49:39.140 uh colleges you have universities you have a school system you have infrastructure you have uh cities
00:49:46.020 tourism the mississippi river i mean you have everything you have ships you have warehouses
00:49:53.620 you know uh agriculture fertile lands you know what you didn't have before you you got right you took from
00:50:02.340 you know mexico or whatever so the us was was built to be a superpower right acquire land acquire fertile
00:50:11.620 lands acquire i mean texas was part of mexico but it's part of the us and you have all the oil there
00:50:17.380 so i mean and then you have california and i mean the us is built as a superpower so the us has everything
00:50:25.380 to go on for a thousand years it's not like it's doomed to fail
00:50:31.460 but apparently the leaders or most of them there you have probably very good leaders but most of the leaders
00:50:38.420 they don't they are not seeing they they either they they are evil
00:50:42.820 or this is not you know a conspiracy theory it's just you know the options you have either they're evil
00:50:47.940 evil and they want to destroy the us because of some evil reason or they're puppets and they are
00:50:55.220 being handled these people that need the us to be destroyed but for some reason or they're incompetent
00:51:02.180 and they're just you know doing wrong stuff because they're not capable of doing the right stuff
00:51:06.820 or sorry i said three but um the incentives right i mean changing a country and changing a lot of things
00:51:15.860 that are badly done probably anger will anger some people right some groups some some lobbies some
00:51:22.820 interests i mean if you say okay we're going to stop the railway that's costing us 15 billion dollars
00:51:27.940 per 600 meter a lot of companies will be angry a lot of you know i don't know mayors i mean you have a
00:51:33.460 system that that that it needs to be needs to be handled so and that needs leadership and it needs a clear
00:51:41.780 a clear mandate that is probably a little hard to get in the us because you know the opposite views
00:51:48.820 and you know the bipartisanship and but but you need to do it well oh you know ultimately as you
00:51:54.900 well know since you've succeeded in it so so thumpingly the instrument for all of that is the ballot is the
00:52:03.140 election itself like how many votes do you get that's your mandate but i think there is a sense among
00:52:08.500 a lot of non-conspiracy minded voters in the united states that that part of the system is itself
00:52:13.140 corrupt yes and that it is actually hard to affect change through voting because it's is it it's rigged
00:52:28.900 so with that in mind do you think trump he's ahead in the polls do you think he can get elected
00:52:34.020 well yes yes he can get elected yeah i'll give you an example uh we in 2019 the system was totally
00:52:45.620 rigged i mean they canceled our our party i mean we we were running with a party and they canceled it i
00:52:52.500 mean they annull our party so i stayed i was party less so i we went to a small party and said you don't
00:53:01.140 have any candidates you're very small do you yeah what you you want to win the election so we we got
00:53:06.180 the the the that party registration and they canceled that party yeah and they canceled that party in
00:53:14.420 the last day that you can uh file the candidacies so we got a medium-sized party at 11 11 pm and we we were
00:53:24.660 able to file our candidacy so it was not like it was easy or the system wasn't rigged it was just so
00:53:31.940 fair that we just you know we put up our our proposals and the people just voted it was very hard to win
00:53:38.180 and then when we won we since we even didn't have simultaneous parliamentary elections we actually went
00:53:46.340 to the executive branch totally opposed to the to the legislative branch and the and the judicial branch so they
00:53:53.620 control the supreme court and they control 90 of the legislative body so i had to veto everything
00:54:03.460 and they override my videos and they enacted they approved over 70 laws that i vetoed yes and everything
00:54:12.580 that we do supreme court unconstitutional unconstitutional unconstitutional yeah so we went to the people
00:54:19.220 and said you know we cannot work like this we need a majority in in congress we need a huge majority in
00:54:24.900 congress because we not only need to approve laws we need to get out with all these people out and the
00:54:29.700 only way to get it out democratically and respecting the rules of the system is that if we get a huge
00:54:34.900 immense majority in congress right because congress can fire anybody even the president yes so
00:54:42.340 people gave us the huge majority and was hard because they controlled they still control the electoral
00:54:47.300 tribunal as of today that's why our election was recognized by all the countries in the world
00:54:53.620 because they know the electoral tribunal is controlled by the opposition still it's the only
00:54:57.860 thing that controlled it's the only thing and we have we have we have lived like that so you know
00:55:02.180 that validates and legitimizes everything else so they but the thing is that in 2021 when we went to
00:55:09.300 when we went to uh congressional elections we carried a super majority that they say they said it was impossible
00:55:15.780 because the system was designed so you cannot get a super majority but we got we got it with more
00:55:20.580 than that and then we with that super majority there is an article because the constitution that allows
00:55:27.460 the super majority in congress to fire the supreme court justices
00:55:33.940 so our party fired the supreme court justices when they got them they got the majority they fired the
00:55:39.300 attorney general which i couldn't i mean the states the president appoints the attorney general here
00:55:43.780 is congress congress selects attorney general congress fires the attorney general general but you need
00:55:48.740 two-thirds of congress to fire an attorney general so we got 75 of congress but you stayed within the
00:55:55.700 rules the whole time we we have never not respected a single rule that's that's also a narrative that
00:56:01.220 they want to be they they cannot point out a single thing that was done by not respecting the the rules
00:56:09.380 that were written by them because the rules are written by people there it's not like oh these rules were you
00:56:15.380 know uh um this was not given by god these rules were written by people but still we respected all the
00:56:25.060 rules that were written by them and uh and yeah we we got it the the i i just i just saw an interview
00:56:32.740 that the president of costa rica gave in costa rica because he came also like many other world leaders he
00:56:38.660 came to the to the inauguration so they asked him over there in costa rica and they said but
00:56:43.540 do you think that bukele is like doing things that are not uh within the constitutional limits that that
00:56:53.460 that he has and there's this this interviews today earlier and president costa rica said well
00:57:00.020 in a in a in a soccer game or in a football game you have the rules and you have the score right
00:57:11.940 and the rules are made so the score you know will be like that but sometimes you get a super score in
00:57:21.300 one side right so are you angry at the rules or are you angry at the score because the president of
00:57:28.660 el salvador the only thing he can be um criticized for is to getting a huge score in his favor with
00:57:36.900 the rules of the game that they lay out lay out for him so yes but it was enormously disruptive to
00:57:44.820 the people who ran the country before you obviously obviously yeah did you ever worry they would try
00:57:49.220 and put you in jail well they did even well even when i was president i mean even i already in uh
00:57:56.500 being already in in the in the presidency they they they tried to to impeach me they they say i wasn't
00:58:03.940 there's an article in the constitution that says congress can actually fire the president if he's not
00:58:07.860 fit to lead to to to lead so they say that i wasn't fit to lead and and they were they they they
00:58:14.740 they tried to impeach me because of that but there was such a um i mean the people were like they were
00:58:22.420 they feared that the people would like you know so what advice is up against them or something well
00:58:28.340 it's a fair concern given your majority exactly um
00:58:34.020 what advice would you give to another former democratically elected leader seeking office who is
00:58:39.860 facing jail time uh anyone just yeah if there was i mean if if there was uh a way to stop the candidacy
00:58:54.020 then he's he's probably in trouble but if there's no there's no way to stop him from competing in the
00:59:01.700 election all the things that they do to him will just give him more votes right that seems to be
00:59:09.540 happening yes i mean either you stop the candidacy or you you let him be but just you know hitting him
00:59:18.020 with you just getting you're making the greatest campaign ever i mean do you think they know that
00:59:24.900 some of them they should they yeah they they i think they some of them do but of course the
00:59:29.540 the ones that don't or they think that you know there's the that's their problem with endogamous
00:59:34.660 groups right because they all like you know yeah so it's so great yeah let's do it and you know
00:59:40.340 they're they're making a huge mistake huge huge mistake huge huge mistake if if you're a country
00:59:46.420 like el salvador really any other country in the hemisphere including canada your eyes are on the
00:59:51.460 united states because it's the dominant power yes obviously um but it puts you in a weird position
00:59:57.540 if you're being criticized from the united states so there's a congressman from massachusetts a pro
01:00:01.540 communist congressman called jim mcgovern literally pro-communist on an attack just an observation
01:00:08.340 who attacked you the other day for daring to move a painting of oscar romero as a catholic priest who
01:00:14.980 was murdered here more than 40 years ago in your airport i think yeah yeah what did you make of
01:00:21.220 that it seemed like a pretty minute criticism pretty small and we actually moved it to a nicer place in
01:00:26.740 front it's not like you know we moved it from a very nice place and we put it in some warehouse
01:00:33.540 you know or whatever some place but what if you did it's your country no of course of course but
01:00:38.500 but you can make the case as an art connoisseur that he didn't like you know the the place we put
01:00:44.820 the painting but but the fact that he that he protested and or he expressed his concerns with deep
01:00:50.660 concern um on twitter and not you know call if he would have called here and said hey do you move the
01:00:57.860 painting they were thought no no it's right here mr congressman uh so of course he can even he can
01:01:04.420 even come and see it for himself but of course he was doing an attack right so but it backfired because
01:01:11.220 uh first the the painting was right in front so yeah just to move the camera it was in the other side
01:01:20.740 um so it was you know he he misfired but also the fact that a u.s congressman
01:01:30.820 is trying to micromanage where art is being displaced is being displayed in another country
01:01:38.500 uh just you know gives you an example of how out of touch they are feels like colonialism to me a
01:01:45.620 little bit yes yes and and and and it comes from the from the democratic party which you would guess
01:01:50.660 the anti-colonial party yes yeah but you know at the at the end it's like you know sometimes
01:01:56.580 sometimes the guy that's called racist is is not really the racist right the guy that is called you
01:02:03.540 know the you know colonialist is not really the colonialist right sometimes it's it's weird how
01:02:08.980 narratives work sometimes are you getting a lot of americans moving here yes yes i mean probably in
01:02:15.940 numbers it won't be significant to you but yes we you can see it i mean you can you can see it everywhere
01:02:21.460 and we're also getting something that's that's very meaningful to us is that we're getting a lot of our
01:02:27.140 diaspora a lot of our immigrant the the people that emigrate al-sabler because of the war because
01:02:33.380 of the gangs or because of the economical um issues that that have always happened here there
01:02:38.660 a lot of them are coming back and there's a study made that the iom and usaid sorry i'll send you the
01:02:46.660 link yes there's a study made by the iom and the usaid that says that 60 62 percent of salvadorans living
01:02:54.820 in the united states want to come back to live here amazing 62 percent and 18 percent are already making
01:03:02.500 plans to come that's over half a million salvadorans coming back so that's super significant because
01:03:09.460 i mean we expelled we expelled them from their their homes right because of crime because of a war because
01:03:16.180 of lack of opportunities and the fact that they're coming back is i mean is the is the is the biggest
01:03:23.220 proof that we're doing things the right way we have a long way to go but we're doing things the right
01:03:27.700 way so after um so we have a lot of americans american-born americans coming but we have also
01:03:34.100 a lot of salvadorian americans with american citizenships coming here do you have the space
01:03:40.180 well it has created a housing bubble because you know we we don't produce as much houses that are
01:03:45.620 being bought are being bought right now but that would create a temporary problem which is the housing
01:03:50.660 bubble but then which is not actually bubble it's just you know the offer and yes finding its own level
01:03:56.020 yeah so now of course construction companies know that they the amount of houses they will build it
01:04:01.700 will they will they will they will sell them so construction has become 20 percent of our gdp
01:04:09.380 and it's growing so this is going to be a huge construction boom and they have the client so it's not
01:04:14.900 built in a bubble or speculation but it feels like a bubble but it's built and you know people coming back
01:04:20.740 home has any other head of state called you for advice on how to improve this country yes yes
01:04:25.700 yes yes yeah yeah several some of them have said it in public of course and they have we have
01:04:31.300 meetings mostly security issues uh we're we're talking with a lot of latin american leaders they have
01:04:37.780 come they have sent their security ministers to meet here with our security ministers they have uh
01:04:42.420 send people to see our jail jail system because sometimes people see our jail system and they try
01:04:47.300 to compare to the united states jail system and say oh look they mean they don't have gyms they don't have
01:04:52.740 netflix you know but but you shouldn't compare the salvador's jail system with the u.s jail system
01:04:58.260 you should compare a salvador's jail system with latin american jail systems
01:05:02.340 so if you go and see most of latin american countries the jails are run by the
01:05:06.660 by the gang as they were here i remember that yes they were under they had they had
01:05:10.820 parties prostitutes strippers they were it was autonomous here i mean you had to get their permission
01:05:16.500 to go yes you have to get the permission to go in they only have permission to get in food
01:05:20.740 medicine but they controlled they controlled the jails not only in the south but they do it in most
01:05:24.740 of the latin american countries so gangsters or narcos they will control the jails right it's their
01:05:31.460 their operation they even go out and back and get back yes so they we totally control that
01:05:40.180 and we have 100 control in our jail system so latin american countries look to our
01:05:45.620 uh jail system in to see if they can they can fix their their own so we we we do a lot of cooperation
01:05:54.100 in security issues uh jail uh jails uh army um training do you know even more powerful in bigger
01:06:04.900 countries of course have you ever you know a lot of heads of state because you are one have you ever
01:06:09.860 met a head of state who when faced with a a serious problem a threat to his own country would in the
01:06:16.100 middle of a cabinet meeting pause and say a prayer i i don't i don't recall but yeah probably do you
01:06:23.940 know anyone who would do that do you think yes probably probably i don't i don't recall right now
01:06:29.300 but no but that's just so far from the mindset of any leader i've ever interviewed anyone who would
01:06:34.340 admit i'm not sure what to do let's ask god i i yeah probably probably not that common but yeah
01:06:41.940 i would guess some some some leaders do it how long do you plan to stay president yeah five years
01:06:49.780 five years that's that's as much as the constitution allows me to
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