Aiden

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.

He's like, this is the boots on the ground reality is what this trend is going.

And so you can see a world where more, not Brazil, Brazil's still...

lula but you can see a world where a lot of these economies are flipping to more trump friendly regimes as and it's fitting into his larger dawn road doctrine north and south america thing like i i can see some of that and i yeah yeah what sorry continue well i was gonna say you know we could use this as a transition to other parts of the world because i do think

Yeah.

We've all heard the stat that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world.

You've seen the chart where it's like, well, it's, it's being called into question in this week after the, the Maduro's capture where people looked into the stat or where it came from.