Episode Details

In this revealing episode of Open My Mind, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador sits down with Tucker Carlson to discuss the country's remarkable transformation from one of the most dangerous nations in the world to one of the safest in the Western Hemisphere. 🌎🔒Bukele shares his perspective on achieving critical mass, using the metaphor of gravitational pull forming planets and stars to explain how peace and safety were restored. He likens this process to a combination of divine intervention and luck, where collective efforts magnify impact beyond individual contributions.Bukele reflects on El Salvador’s dark past, where poverty and violence ruled. He highlights the country’s drastic reduction in crime—once the murder capital of the world, El Salvador is now safer than Canada, Chile, and even the US. This stunning change, accomplished in just three years, involved a multifaceted strategy.He outlines both official and unofficial tactics:

• Building up police forces, doubling the army, and taking swift action against gangs.
• Responding to the 87 murders in three days with urgency, comparable to 5,000 killings in the US in a similar timeframe.
• Tackling 70,000 gang members and protecting 6 million potential victims.

Bukele also reveals the spiritual dimension of their efforts. Despite El Salvador being a secular nation, prayer and faith played a key role in his and his security team’s decisions. They prayed for wisdom and minimized civilian casualties—miraculously achieving their goal. Bukele explains how the gangs’ terror tactics, such as randomly killing civilians, aimed to create fear and chaos, but the government’s strategy focused on protecting innocents.Tracing the origins of gang violence, Bukele notes that the infamous MS-13 and 18th Street Gang began in Los Angeles due to the exclusion of Salvadorans by Mexican gangs. He critiques the US deportation policies under Bill Clinton, which sent gang members back to El Salvador without warning, allowing them to grow into powerful international criminal organizations.Bukele concludes by celebrating not only a physical victory over the gangs but also a spiritual triumph. He asserts that winning the spiritual war against evil allowed for real peace and safety to return to El Salvador.🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Achieving critical mass in transforming a nation involves a combination of strategy, faith, and collective effort.
• Gang violence in El Salvador has roots in Los Angeles, exacerbated by US deportation policies.
• Prayer and faith played a pivotal role in minimizing civilian casualties while combating gang terror.
• El Salvador’s transformation is a model of combining military force, community protection, and spiritual resilience.

🎧 Tune in as President Nayib Bukele shares his inspiring journey of how El Salvador conquered violence and restored peace, both physically and spiritually. #NayibBukele #ElSalvador #CriticalMass #TuckerCarlson #GangViolence #SpiritualTriumph #OpenMyMind #SafetyAndPeace

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