RealClear World links to an American Conservative article about Nayib Bukele who has employed the “iron fist” in El Salvador and cleaned up its gang-ridden mess. He basically imprisoned everybody who looked like a gang-banger in a huge gulag, and it worked.
Obviously many have complained about his abuse of “human rights.” He prefers to concentrate on the rights of the law-abiding, and among them he is wildly popular.
One of the first things he did was kick the NGOs out of the country. I’m beginning to wonder if we shouldn’t add that to the wish list compiled into Project 2025. I begin to conclude NGOs do substantially more harm than good.
What Bukele demonstrated in El Salvador is that you can truly “imprison your way to a safer society,” despite claims by civil libertarians to the contrary. Comparisons to Mussolini getting the Italian trains to run on time probably aren’t too far-fetched. Except getting criminals out of peoples’ lives is more important than train schedules.
