Will There Be Blood? Can America and the West Be Recivilized without Violence?

El Salvador’s turnaround under Nayib Bukele suggests an uncomfortable truth: order often returns not through consensus, but through force most societies are unwilling to wield. - Raw Egg Nationalist

President Nayib Bukele has transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous places in the world—a tropical hellhole with a murder rate fit for a Middle Eastern warzone—to one of the safest countries in the Americas. 

• He did it by applying one basic principle: lock up the most violent people in society, then throw away the key.

Bukele was aided by the fact that most crime in his country was committed by members of ultra-violent gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18, who conveniently advertise their allegiance and their crimes with lurid tattoos all over their bodies...a Salvadoran man does not have “MS-13” tattooed on his forehead unless he is an actual member of the gang.

• Bukele declared a state of emergency on March 27, 2022, after a weekend of gang violence that led to 87 murders. 
• Basic civil liberties, including due process and the right to a trial, were suspended. 
• Police and the military moved into the slums and favelas, methodically tightening a dragnet that would eventually capture tens of thousands of gang members...