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says north korea has fire to ballistic missiles up its east coast just 2 days after claiming to have tested a long range. cruise missile coincide with a visit to sol by china's foreign minister, south korea's having to enlist beijing to help restore nuclear talks with young young 3 former us intelligence operatives have admitted providing sophisticated a hacking technology to the united arab emirates. the men have agreed to pay $91700000.00 in fines to avoid prosecution. they are accused of conducting hacking operations for the you a while working as managers that a firm in the gold state. h is prime minister, are already a sacked, the chief prosecutor who wants him charged over the murder of the president shovel . my use was assassinated in july and court documents say the prime minister was found by one of the main suspects after the shooting. so those were the headlines. the news continues here now to 0 after the stream station tense watching

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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. paul steiner serves us outdoor ban . salvador in government as the president of the national commission for small micro companies is also in 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 could feel the difference in the streets of los palmas. a tough neighborhood in the capital, says julio se so. he should know the under living on the streets painting murals almost window and frankly lament. we're 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 expulsion still. right . and it was obvious as we visited, that the gangs were present even if they're a piece. a great report, john, and a lot of the changes that are happening in 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 2019 president kelly. 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 is really good on social media marketing and you just actually make to the 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 panoramic quite well, the back nation campaign and 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 that. i mean, the other governments in the pup has done so it's to, based on how we've done that, but has reduced violence. he government has reduced violence in the country and i

think that accounts for his high popularity. this is the 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 in his time of both is in the tunnel. we went, he just his supreme court and 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 and 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's just forcibly moved to possibly retire for a 3rd of the countries. 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 kelly and those sort of tool 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 projects this anti sound is meant damage. he worse genes and his baseball cap backwards even to former locations 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 said he, he's known for having for example, he, he fired public servants via twitters, a few months ago. but he saw he also has a large following of internet trolls and, and bullies he's, he's definitely unexpected 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 also he, he's what you would define typically as a, as a, not the right thing and populist. he has discourse that where he claims to be connected with the people yet he's, he's very key in it. 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 you 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 role of president of when i meet, which is the national commission for small micro companies. i've been working with a 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, it's, it's hard to talk about, solve it, or 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 they report for l solder. for the years, 2001 to 2015. they estimate approximately

$20000000.00 a year, a sorry, over that period, left the state in corruption, evasion, money laundering, and illusion. and there was also 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 the 5 different dimensions of poverty and name are just a few 57 percent of home 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's plenty to put the, the context there and transformation or revolution. according to erica

channel, 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 202019 . 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 we're really the greatest drops in this trend? started years before he came into office, the jobs 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, i mean, just 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 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 laugh, they got bad. it's been here. i've been here. i mean,

yeah, yeah. i want to ask paul if he then disregards entirely the, the journey, the newspaper investigations, 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 fault. so do you think this is, this is just fake news. i got, can i just throw in the us 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 ball. 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 report so 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, i have to say, oh, well, respected out like out outlets and salvador indeed in the region. so just put in a little bit of perspective, what would you like to bring up the editor of our been deported. right. has he been on 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 then hope inside 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 allowed to you on that po. a quick question for you and one for just a 2nd what you're saying, that's what we did. go to, let's finish my point, load your answers all but telling you we're just there in the streets. what did you follow? we were talking to my question to we were talking. i think the story that she spoke to 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 gone down. but the guy who still operates and they still go there, businesses that. and we actually see that happening. we're worried about the

neighborhood, but the guy is still there and they still credit it. the question is if they still operating, 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, 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 regard of those 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 it's not just on the sides that have been reducing over the period . but also extortion, also thefts and also female bands. 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 century 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 the 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 remaining 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 currency that has the 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, oh yeah, i think you said, i apologize. i still 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 it more prosperous and modern. and also then the government has been, has been also successful in, in mother lighting up part of the international crypto community. but, but i think that reality is very far from there. and it will give you 3 quick reasons. look, that the whole crypto bit going to adoption project has like transparency from the beginning. 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 going convention in the states and united states long before the sub lawrence . we are informed about this one to 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 for the 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 that the option of beacon would make payments cheaper and it would encourage for investment even he has had this up there. there is, however, no evidence, no documentation from the government explaining how this will happen. a civil just sites are going to say, she 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 objectives behind the adoption of crypto, as, as legal, took a currency. second, research post policy and i want to get a chance to, to jump in on this because we're running out of time. but paul's are going to serve the part of the country. did you ever have 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 bang. 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 that $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 over a $1000000.00. if you take on board all types of re maintenance 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 need to be respectful here, but i think this is, this is a, this is a lot of else of numbers you're putting out. but why has the government failed to produce a single technical document to explain the link? it's you're making between growth and opportunity possible, lawrence and the implementation to forced implementation off bitco. and that's a legal, tender i still failed to comprehend that why hasn't government produced a single piece of evidence. and what we have seen, on the contrary, is a cam paying a political pain for sub organs to adopt either the quickest pace possible this currency. they do not fully understand 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 is, that is, that is great. up to date that the president announced cindy was not in the government while it was launched in february in san sorry, march 1 more time 7. last week. we've had 7 days of about half a 1000000 people registering it. now 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 a $100.00 to his relative here and solve it, or who receive a $100.00 and can transfer it to his bank account if he has $10.00 commissions all the way through. hey, that, that man, that treego wallet who owns that? i'm sorry. who owns that? she vote the wallet that you're talking about who owns it is a government owned wallet. and who's it run by?

it's run by a subsidiary, i believe, 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. so just just one second a minute i was 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 to horror separate. and because 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. hey john, i want to thank all of you for being on the stream today. and i wanna thank you for watching until next time. we'll see you in the stream. ah, did you meet the young river traders, brazil thinking neither read nor right. they know how to code their breathing dangerous again with their he'll do anything. just freaking, you know,

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