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ah, i am josh rushing, sitting in for me. okay. and your industry today is democracy in el salvador risk. the country is making international headlines of the world 1st to declare bitcoin a legal tender. but critics of the president is government say they're undermining checks and balances in a graph are continue power. as always, we want to hear your thoughts. your questions right there in the youtube live chat, join me for today's conversation. all right, joining us today, we have jose marino. he's the president at the foundation for democracy, transparency, and justice. he is in san salvador. pulse diner serves us outdoor ban salvador in

government as the president of the national commission for small and micro companies is also in sim salvador and completing our line up as john holmes and mexico cities algiers. long time corresponding covering latin america actually reported from el salvador and showed us how life is changed there recently. let's see. some of the report feel the difference in the streets of los palmas, a tough neighborhood in the capital, says julio say so. he should know the under living on the streets painting murals. some of linda frankie lament were living calmly now without problems. you can go and get a soda or a beer wherever around here, before it wasn't light before it wasn't like that, you wouldn't see a light in the street after 7 pm. there's a lot of police here right now and that didn't exist before the next door should still right. and it was obvious as we visited, that the gangs were present even if they're a piece. is a great report,

john and a lot of the changes that are happening in el salvador. and i have some stats to bring up later the show to show how murder rates are down to violence is down. but a lot of the, the changes people are crediting president, the new president elected 2119 president mckelly. can you tell me who is he? what, what, what's so interesting about him? yeah, it was really interesting to be there actually. and he is a really interesting person character at the moment in central america. he's a young president, he's really good on twitter. he's really good on social media marketing and you just actually make to the big coin sort of initiative. i think that's part of that is also seen, i think by lo, salvadorans is someone who can get things done. the country type 30 years, your policies do willing parties in which has been a lot of political gridlock and also a lot of institutional corruption. and he basically said, i'm going to cut the rules that i'm going to make things happen. so on the success

side of the ledger for him to handle the pandemic quite well, the back nation campaign in salvador wealth. and also what you saw in the report there in terms of violence in the country. this country just don't like guy was so long and he has managed to reduce that by now that has been reported by 30 credits me to that he's done that by doing a truce between gang which to me and he said he wouldn't do. i mean, the other governments in the pup has done so just based on how he's done that, but has reduced violence. he government has reduced by the, in the country. and i think that accounts for his high popularity. this is a killer president right now. and then salvador, that's the good side to legit. now we go back to the other side of the ledger, which is the fact that the president and his time of both is the time that we went . he just his supreme court that he's congress just elected,

had said the president of the country could run against reelection if you want to put this in perspective in the 1st president, if you chose to do that, been running for reelection once in 70 years. and the last one that did it was a military dictator. so that is something that's a big deal in el salvador right now. he's done other things like replace the supreme court justices. he just forcibly moved, supposedly retired for a 3rd of the country's judges. and those move, but he says he needs to do to clean house. that's pretty cool. now obviously, if you're looking at that, you're a journalist, you're a speech organization, you're thinking, i've seen this before in latin america. where is this going from the president? so it's a really interesting moment in the country with president kenny and those 2 or 3 sites. thank you so much and from your perspective, what do you see there?

will i agree that this, this facet of president mckelly as attractive, i guess garnett, international attention. he protects this, anti astounded meant damage. he worse jeans and his baseball cap backwards even to former locations where they are. oh, this is the image he projects. right. it looks makes him look modern and, and connected with the youth. but he's actually millennial, he's, he's almost, he's 40 years old by now. he has a fixation, i guess, with his own image. he. he is a very good and twitter. yes, he is very social media saving. he, he's known for having for example he, he fired public servants via twitters, a few months ago. but he thought he also has a large following of internet trolls and, and bullies. he's,

he's definitely unaffected communicator of i would qualify off a usually shallow discourse. he's highly intolerant with critics, particularly with independent media. john might have seen this in, well, and there are some other he's highly and polar and also human rights offenders and civil society organizations just like ours in, in also he, he's what you would define typically as a, as a not very big and populist. he has discourse that where he claims to be connected with the people. yet he's, he's very keen of, of the paraphernalia, usually of power surround the, usually by soldiers the economists just to find him perfectly. a few days ago he said that he kind of said that bouquet is an old fashioned autocrat. the guys are the tech loving mother leader, and i and i tend to agree with this to finish. and so paul,

i want to ask your views because i want to understand 1st or would you actually be considered in the administration? it would just be asking you about your boss. yeah, your actually he, in fact gave me the, the, the role of president of me for which is the national commission for small micro companies. i've been working with the president now for a number of years before he was elected president with a view to helping him into power and obviously become the leader of what is actually a transformation of the nation. it's hard to talk about solvent are in front of people around the world without putting things into context. hours. i'll put the context in 3 statements. first of all, under the 15th of september in 1821. when the declaration of independence was written, the very 1st act,

the very 1st article of the act says, having declared this independence in this for publication before the people consider it as something of their own. and i think that puts something into perspective of where the country began in terms of democracy. it actually established a feudal system where we got rid of the king, but we actually transferred the feudal system from the spanish to the cradles. there's an organization in washington of global financial integrity and their report for l solder. for the years, 2001 to 2015. they estimate approximately $20000000.00 a year, sorry. over that period left the state in corruption, evasion, money laundering, and illusion. and the,

the result of that was the 1st dimensional, multi dimensional, already measurement by the un where we had approximately 98 percent of all homes, you know, solve it or suffered at least one of $25.00 different dimensions of poverty. and name are just a few 57 percent of homes suffered from unemployment or self employment. 70 percent of homes have no access to social security. 45 percent the home suffer from overcrowded household. i could continue, but i think that's that that's plenty to put the, the context there and transformation or revolution. according to erica general, as we used to work for the department of justice, requires 3 things. one, it requires a pause and the people united in the cause and the 3rd of february 29th, 2019. it needs

a conviction to actually take action. and the people took action in 2019. and i gotta get back because i don't think you can discuss el salvador without talking about your homicide right there. you've gone from being the murder capital the world to now it's less than mexico. if we go to my screen, i'm going to show a little graphic here that shows the declining rate of murders. but i also happen to notice that for decline started in 2015. this is 4 years before he gets elected . so when he takes credit for this with his security plan, how do you justify the fact that will really the, the greatest drops in this trend? started years before he came into office, the drops did start in 2015, sorry. in 2016. 2015 was our most valuable year ever and it was when sense of it was placed as the most violent capital in the world. and since then, it started dropping again. but we were still talking of a large percentage 20 odd murders per day. and now that has been dropped

dramatically over the last 2 and a half years with a view to getting to the point where they've been a lot of days where we've had 0 homicides that was unknown and heard up before. well, because of a church between the gangs, i don't believe so. i believe that it is a direct result of having a better control over the territory before the strategy was go in about with the police and them and the military make a big show and then leave. so while they were there and the gangs left, but when the military lab, they got back to have been here and here, i mean, yeah, yeah. i want to ask paul if he then disregards entirely the, the journey they, the newspaper investigations, the, the media exposure that an apparent truce has been reveal happening between the 3 primary gangs that subtler and the government. the,

the evidence is mounting pulse. so do you think this is, this is just fake news. i can just throw into this and this is for our viewers at home. we're going to tweet out a report right now. this is from the international crisis group. it's called miracle, or mirage gains and plunging violence in el salvador. and there's a bite down here that says, statistical studies show that the territorial control plan, which is his plan, is most likely not the sole cause specific local falls and murder rates do not correspond. precisely to those areas where the plans been implemented instead and large part gangs appeared to themselves, had decided to go back to waco violence. paul, i would hope that they have actually chosen to do that, but the truth of the matter is that, but how's that was asking pretty specifically. does a government acknowledge that there's been a church between the gangs as reported by the media or the reports of, of some sort of agreement that has been reached with the gangs are based on people

who are not necessarily known for reporting news, but creating and i think that it's very different, i'm sorry. yeah, well, respected out light out outlets and salvador indeed in the region bottles. so just put in a little bit perspective, what would you like to bring up the father of the editor, farlow's, been deported, right. has he been at the country, one of his editors was, was boarded by, by the same government and, and this is the whole strategy right discrediting, attacking the media, the journalists that do the investigation. and i can hear, i still haven't heard any response. serious response, with evidence from the government discrediting the story from the side of the the story has expanded and rested in recent days. newspaper just 2 days ago, also revealed to one of the officials that the, for the fido identified as being part of,

of the negotiations with the gangs. was also meeting up with gang leaders at a hospital. so they would pull out gang leaders from the prison. they would take them as if they were sick to a hospital and hope in some other, and then they would meet with public officials to continue their conversations or negotiations or whatnot. i think it's clear but not necessarily any conversations. and i think it's, it's very easy to jump to a conclusion, especially when you want to actually make a point in terms of your opinion and what's happening. i think the truth of the matter is if you look at the ground, you look at the streets and you go to different cologne. yes. which is where people live. you see a big difference. you see a big difference. people are more open. i've had people tell me they're allowing you on that po a quick question, you know, and just a fact that what you're saying,

that's what we did go let's finish my point from your answers hall. but telling you were just there in the streets. what did you fall? we were talking to my question to. we can speak lou. i think you started that class or actually we spoke more people saying this time we're really happy to come down. however, which way we can go out at night. the question to him was, does extortion still continuing to in your, in your neighborhood? and we ask people because it's what we found in the past and they'll go the pilots and come down with the games, who still operate, and they still go businesses that. and we actually see that happening when we're in that neighborhood. the gang is still there and they still look right there's the question is if they still operate and if they still it's, it's 2 people in the neighborhoods you think that's still happening. and if so, what's the government's plan to stop? but then listen, we have a plan control territory,

which is nowhere near finished. it's spent the whole year last year waiting for funds which the congress did not wish to, to, to, to provide. but what we have got is a tremendous advance what we, what we can see, and we kind of go so say, as an investigative criminologist, who has made a number of analyses. i provided al jazeera, a copy of his latest report prior to this interview. and one of the things that it demonstrates is that it's not just on the sides that have been reducing over the period, but also extortion, also thefts, and also female lounge. so from that point of view, i've, that's not the government stating it. it's a private analyst and stating that, but the, the whole point i think here is that you can't just center a transformation of a country on just the said the,

the central part of that transformation. paul, i got to jump ahead running out of show really quickly. part of that transformation has been accepting big coin as the national currency. there are a national currently there. here i have a bit of video i want to share on that. for the 1st time, a non feared currency becomes legal, tender in a nation, stay around 23 percent of our salvatore's economy. is remittances alone? those romantic remittances come specifically from the united states. and the legacy financial system is not fair to them. now you could stay in the comfort of your own home and you could immediately receive remittance in seconds. and the fee is minimal. the adoption of the legal tender by the government will fall into our service primarily the valuable distraction from the increasingly authoritarian measure being taken by president night from kelly to consolidate power. and of

course as a criminal currency bill has a highly volatile value. international actors have also express worry about this move the international monetary fund, which is currently in negotiations with a government out or over. a major loan has express worry that it could be used as a vector for money laundering. whorehouse has been seeing their i said jorge and i actually meant, yeah, i think you said, i apologize. i don't know where our graphics guy here is. jorge on the show. don't, don't know. look, there's been a lot of hype about the adoption, not bit going as legal tender. and i understand that mostly because the government has used its international publicity machinery to, to project an image off of this, making his mother prosperous and modern. and also then the government has been, has been also successful in, in mobilizing a part of the international crypto community. but, but i think that reality is very far from there. and,

and i will give you 3 quick reasons. look, that the whole crypto bit going adoption project has lacked transparency from the beginning. do you, did you know that the, the initial announcement of the adoption of a lot that would make bitcoin obligatory, and some other was made at a bit coin convention in the states and united states long before the sub lawrence were informed about this fund, mental change so the monetary policy, i think this reflects well on what i mean by lack of transparency, $200000000.00 of government funds. i've already been used in this critical project, and there are very little, there's very little clarity on what the purpose of these funds would be at least a big chunk of it. to kelly has says that these, the project, the option a bit can, would make payments cheaper and it would encourage for investment even he has had this up there. there is, however,

no evidence of no documentation from the government explaining how this will happened. a civil society organization requested just last week, all technical documentation supporting the law, and none was provided because there is none, no technical dividend supporting the idea and the objects behind the adoption of crypto, as, as legal, took a currency 2nd research post. so policy in pe, i wanna get pilot chance to to jump in on this because we're running out of time. but paul doesn't assert the part of the country. about half the country there has access to the internet uses it regularly, does it serve them better than the other half? that doesn't have access to the internet. $1100000.00 businessmen invoice less than $2400.00 a month. and 4600000. salvatore is depend on their sales to eat and live less than 70, sorry, more than 70 percent of the population has not got a bank. and so from that point of view,

the banks will not touch them because they are informal because they don't have a credit track record with bitcoin. all they need is their national identification . and the advantage of that is that there's a very large proportion of them that receive remittances. as you heard in your report, this year it's estimated to $7000000.00, will arrive and solve it, or in the form of remittances. if you look at the average percentage of cost of remittances, you're talking of over a $1000000.00. if you take on board all types of remittance costs, that will be saved. that money could come in the extra income or could come in, in terms of investment by their, their relatives overseas. additionally, i don't mean to be respectful here, but i think this is, this is a, this is a lot of else numbers you're putting out. but up, why has the government failed to produce a single technical document to explain the link if you're making between growth and

opportunity for salvador and, and the implementation, the forced implementation off bitcoin as a legal, tender. i still failed to comprehend that why hasn't the government produce a single piece of evidence. and what we have seen, on the contrary, is a cam paying a publicity campaign for some of the organs to adopt either the quickest paced possible dis currency. they do not fully understand in which by the way is absolutely unpopular. it's extremely unpopular. did you know that be familiar? already subscribed in the last 7 days. that, that it does great update that the president announced cindy was not in the government while it was launched in february on, sorry, march 1 more time, 7 last week. we've had 7 days of about half

a 1000000 people registering it. now the, the interesting thing about that is that by setting the wallet as a national wallet, the president can control all commissions on it. so that means that someone in new york can send 100 dollars to his relative here and solder who receive a 100 dollars and can transfer it to his bank account if he has 10 commissions all the way through that man that treats wallet who owns that i'm sorry, who owns achieve? oh, the wallet that you're talking about, who owns that? well, it is a government owned wallet. and who is it run by? it's run by a subsidiary. i believe, of, of a private company with books. yes. it's a private company that has thoughts and could be eventually sold out to somebody else. yes, it was founded with government money, but it's a public company. you have to see this in the context of the democratic backsliding

office number. so just just list when i have a minute, i think you've got to make this point type. the absolutely so book kelly is immersed in this quick power graph. he has already eliminated the chords. he has the majority in the assembly, he's points for reelection. undoubtedly, he wants to amend the constitution, he wants a new constitution, and now he wants us to believe that the new currency, the new legal currency, will be, will benefit salvadorans to which or to whom he is now denied. even the rights required to separate and between. you don't have to if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're hyper, i hate to do it, but we have to end the show there. paul, i want to thank you host and john. i want to thank all of you for being on the stream today, and i want to thank you for watching until next time. was the industry. ah,

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