Ben McKenzie

They're going to build a city.

They're going to build an airport to service the city.

So I go out there, there's nothing going on.

But what they're doing is they're displacing this whole community in order to build this airport for the city that's never going to exist.

It still doesn't exist to this day in any form.

But they wanted to build an airport, which I don't know what that's about exactly, because they already have an international airport 100 miles away.

I will say, I don't know if this is related, but there's a lot of drug smuggling and money laundering in Central and South America.

Anyway, they displaced this whole community.

So I'm talking to this fisherman named Wilfredo, who doesn't know Bitcoin.

Like, the guy fishes for a living.

And he's like, what is going on in this world?

The government, like, bought up their land for a fraction of what it was worth.

Bukele controls the judiciary, so there wasn't any real ability to appeal this thing.

And it was just sad.

No, which is the biggest market in San Salvador, the capital.

And it's funny.

I'm just going through the market asking to pay for things in Bitcoin.

Everything is cash there.

Everything is cash dollars.

It's not a currency.