Why is Bukele so popular??? This guy is awful and has a rather one dimensional solution for dealing with crime, which is more prisons.
Because his approach to crime is actually working, at least for now. El Salvador's murder rate fell from 106 per 100,000 in 2015 (the highest in the world) to 7.8 in 2022, and it's now safe for women and children to go outside. I don't like the guy at all, and his Bitcoin thing is stupid, but every Salvadoran person I've met approves of what he's doing, and I have to take their views into account.
