Aiden

Chavez, right?

But he's saying, he's just noticing the trend.

There has been a big rightward surge in Latin America in recent years.

And he pointed to one specific thing, which is causing a lot of change.

That's the one.

They're searching over the, they're coming from the asylums.

No, he said, and this tracks with other things I've seen from different, like putting web of stories together.

The cocaine trade in the past 10 years has become gargantuan.

Like Europe, Brazil, and America are all consuming like five, six, seven X amount of cocaine.

The cocaine trade has gotten absurd.

It's so profitable and it has become such a blight on Latin America that's caused so much crime that people are like at their wits end and trying to go for like more drugs.

Strong man authority, whatever.

Whatever can crack down.

That is his big takeaway.

That is one of the big things.

That is the exact argument he made.

He said El Salvador is the new, like Bukele of El Salvador and maybe Malay of Argentina are like the new celebrity leaders

of South America in a way that Castro and Chavez might've been in the past.

And people are saying, I don't like the violations in El Salvador, but he's getting results.

He's just a mental reporter.