The Bukele Scam: MS-13 Deals, Dictatorship, and US Cover-ups

Oct 26, 2025 | Conservatives praise Nayib Bukele as a bold crime-fighter. But the truth is far more disturbing. Bukele built his power on repression, lies, and secret deals with MS-13. He turned El Salvador into a dictatorship by purging courts, jailing critics, and removing term limits so he can stay in power indefinitely.

US investigations found his government diverted aid to gangs in exchange for votes and reduced violence. He blocked extraditions, threatened prosecutors, and demanded the deportation of informants who exposed his ties to MS-13. This is not justice. It is corruption and cover-up.

Bukele is not fighting crime the way he claims. He is empowering criminals, silencing dissent, and lying to the world. His connections to Trump and Musk should be a warning.

Why do conservatives keep falling for scam artists like Bukele, Trump, Musk, and Orbán?

A Poor Country Made Bitcoin a National Currency. The Bet Isn’t Paying Off.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It brought El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, the adulation of the tech community, but reduced scarce funds and moved the nation closer to default.

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador at an event in June to mark his third year in office.Credit...Jose Cabezas/Reuters
Bitcoin was meant to transform El Salvador’s economy, catapulting the poor Central American nation into an unlikely harbinger of a financial revolution.

But nearly a year after the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, shocked the financial world by making its most popular digital coin a national currency, his bet appears to be backfiring, highlighting the gap between the utopian promises of cryptocurrency’s proponents and economic realities.

The government’s bitcoin holdings have lost about 60 percent of their presumed value during the recent market plunge. The use of bitcoin among Salvadorans has collapsed and the country is running out of cash after Mr. Bukele failed to raise fresh funds from cryptocurrency investors. » | Anatoly Kurmanaev and Bryan Avelar | Tuesday, July 5, 2022