El Salvador in just 5 years has gone from one of the most dangerous countries on earth to live in to one of the safest. What President Bukele has achieved during his time in office has been nothing short of a miracle driven by his iron will to rid the country of its gangs.
@@jhoss47 look up what happened to MS13 and how they learned gang culture from LA then once they deported them back to El Salvador they did the same thing and took over the country. How bout you do some research first my guy.
There was an interview in Vice news I believe, in which a gang member of MS-13 was saying that there isn't any crime in El Salvador because they are being paid off by the government, when the government stops paying them then they will start stirring things up again.
Wait 10 years. Believe it or not, people were willing to die for putin in early 2000s... now people literally die for putin and nobody wants him in power anymore, but it is too late. Bukele will be no different
If you're a foreigner visiting El Salvador do yourself a favour and DON'T go to American stores they're priced the same as the U.S. in other words extremely expensive in El Salvador so help the local economy out and try local cuisine or small mom and pop stores that offer the kind of food you want, they have a little bit of everything: Italian, Chinese, Indian, Caribbean, Japanese etc. but you'll get more bang for your buck if you stick to eating local Salvadorean food.
@HurtsEnd totally understandable, I felt the same way too, had a month vacation over there and every few days I just had to have a burger or some kind of American fast food to hit the spot lol.
@@HassanSabbakuthere are local “fast food” restaurants that may or may not be franchises but are available in many smaller cities or towns like pollo campero or other variations. They have lots of us foods like us pizza or beef burgers. Even though they are supposedly fried chicken restaurants that serve fried chicken. I won’t miss us fast food that much cause I don’t eat there often cause I can just go to the store like Sam’s club and buy frozen chicken and fries and just air fry them. As tasty and can have as much as I want. El Salvador has crazy amount of frozen fried chicken options and different brands even in small shops. They even have ranch packs!
It's about to become more dangerous in the USA. The illegal immigrants gangs have been arming themselves, so when they go in to round them up, it'll basically be an insurgency war like the last two. What's funny though, is that people are like, "Trump can't deport these people, there are only 6,000 CBP agents." (It's actually 60,000; but the ATF has around 6,000, so the two may be confused.) What they don't realize is that military assets can be tied to civilian law enforcement agencies, so those door kickers cleaning out a gang from Manhattan might not be CBP regulars, but US Marines. 🤣 The Marines don't generally have an MO of taking prisoners in gun battles. They generally have to bag up the people they face.
@sekurus4950 in the 2000s they've had the dollar policy for quite a while since both countries currencies are very unreliable in international trade and setting up monetary policy
Well, EL Savador has been working hard to clean up the criminal gang problem. With that, the Standard of living is going to increase. Having another winter vacation destination is a good thing-even better for the people who live there.
Idk about that. Mexico literally has all the major fast food from the US. All the major chain stores like costco sams club Walmart, AutoZone O'Reilly's,napa,starbucks,illy etc.
@fredlin6303 when I went to visit family down there the other year, we got to try the mango smoothie before the US got it. Was so good, just tasted like straight up fresh pureed mangoes. When it came to the US, idk how they messed it up so bad cause it was vile and nothing like the one we had. They had quite a few better items overall
@Eclipse1369 so A,get your geography straight. El Salvador is central America not south America. And B you didn't listen to the video... He said El Salvador has more American brands than Mexico...... Which is literally what I responded to.......think before you make blind assumptions and get your facts straight
@Eclipse1369 im Salvadorian decent, and just to let you know, el Salvador is just below mexico. It's still in north America. The region is called central America but it's technically north American continent.
I’m visiting El Salvador now that criminals aren’t walking free terrorizing the world, and they use the dollar!!! Never thought I’d want to visit El Salvador, but I am now’
Ya the dollar was adopted because the president in the early 2000s ,idk exactly when, but they sold the money printing machine that alot of people still hate about that administration. Things were cheaper back then. And yall could have gotten more for your buck. But they adopted the dollar because I guess they thought the gdp would go up more over time. But even then you could just exchange American currency for the local and it was easy and people mostly still accepted dollars. I was young so i might not be right on how exactly it worked but that's what I know.
The mall and Walmart in El Salvador is just like here with small differences. The KFC had rolls instead of biscuits and you didn’t get a 1 liter from Pizza Hut. It was a 1.5 liter I believe. Shout out Super Selectos for keeping me fed during my stay.😂
and now that they imprisoned all those dangerous criminals, it's actually safe to go there as a tourist. The school buses are an interesting quirk because yellow "school" buses are very rare outside of the US and US territories as almost no other country uses yellow as the color of their school buses.
Ecuador has a lot of these things including using the US dollar. I think most of the Susan B Anthony dollar coins are here. $1 bills are somewhat rare. Gallons, pounds, and some other US measurements are used for various items while metric is used for others.
Apparently there’s a laundry list of countries that use the US Dollar as their official currency. Besides El Salvador you have Panama (obviously), Ecuador, Palau, even Micronesia. There’s more too.
You may correct one thing, I stay in México every month andso far ive seen big US brands everywhere like Starbucks, heb , walmart , cotsco , sams , mcdonalds , little ceacers, holiday inn, , hard rock , cheesecake factory, Victoria's secret, carl juniors and many many, more!!! Type below the ones in missed ♡
Bro please don’t bring an influx of annoying tourist to my country please, just let El Salvadorians have this cuz we all go back and visit because it’s still amazingly affordable but with Americans coming and buying land they’re making the price skyrocket just like here in Los Angeles where I live
Supposedly obesity is skyrocketing in some Arab country that really loves McDonald's and other pizza, fried chicken and burger places There was a documentary on it from Vice many years ago
I don't know. I'm getting strong blue, Taylor vibes with this one. There's a lot of speculation around her taking money from Britney funneling it to the kardashians and something to do with Kylie selling part of her company to Coty
This seems like a country who doesnt seem to spite the U.S. which it seems like a lot of other countries do. Some countries I swear try to be the exact opposite of us but still work with us
How do accommodation (cheap rooms) and food costs (bought in central public markets where poor people shop) compare with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua?
El Salvador is more expensive than all the countries mentioned. As a Salvadoran, it's cheaper for me to go on holidays to Guatemala or Mexico than it is to stay at a nice Airbnb/hotel here.
@@charliervr I said for poor people, people that don't need a fancy place. People that don't spend $3000+ a month on accommodation because that is what typical AirBnB's cost now in poor countries. I mean hotels where poor people vacation to there. Local people. Like your maid, handyman, gardener, etc. When you travel a long time you just cannot blow so much on your accommodation.
@@FreshAirRules That’s exactly what I’m talking about my guy, I budget travel hard and it’s impossible to do that shit here. My maid, handyman, gardener and such can’t afford a night out of their homes. They don’t go out. El Salvador is Costa Rica level expensive and the tourism industry is not made for locals.
Did you see all the mass arrests and people who criticize the government getting arrested? Also, all the locals being forced to sell their property in the tourist areas for a loss?
What happends if i am a tourist from usa and exchange my money is another country.. is the money circulating around that country? Or does it ever go back to USA FOR A FEE?
El Salvador is probably the most genuine Ally to the United States in Central America. I will be taking my vacation and my money there instead of Mexico.
Not really, they only dollarized as a desperate measure iirc. Jus look it up and read about it but it's much better for a sovereign country to have their own currency cus they'll have more control over their economy, so it actually hinders el Salvador and a couple others to grow their economy which el Salvador desperately needs.
This goes to show how it’s kind of BS to say that only 3 countries haven’t gone metric in the world. The reality is that there are a lot of countries using a wide variety of different units, just because they are officially metric doesn’t mean other units aren’t in use by people in day to day life
El Salvador in just 5 years has gone from one of the most dangerous countries on earth to live in to one of the safest.
What President Bukele has achieved during his time in office has been nothing short of a miracle driven by his iron will to rid the country of its gangs.
Yea didn't he ship them to the usa lol
^ nah we shipped all our gang members there first 😂
@@jchastain789no he didn’t he built new prisons one is as big as a football stadium
@@MrThad15what r u on man do some research
@@jhoss47 look up what happened to MS13 and how they learned gang culture from LA then once they deported them back to El Salvador they did the same thing and took over the country. How bout you do some research first my guy.
El Salvador actually arrests criminals these days
Crazy for el so
There was an interview in Vice news I believe, in which a gang member of MS-13 was saying that there isn't any crime in El Salvador because they are being paid off by the government, when the government stops paying them then they will start stirring things up again.
Correction* anyone they sightly see as a threat
@isaacalcala808Which is mfs with Cartel Tattoos and criminals
@isaacalcala808🤣🤣thank you
Its like reverse culture shock.
“El Salvador, it looks so… similar..” 😂😂
@toiky9476 The mall looked like 1990s America because it wasn't all closed stores and RadioShack still exists. I wonder if they have Blockbusters too.
It’s a culture non-shock
this was me when i went to Morocco and i was expecting... well, the third world but to my suprise, it looked a million times better than France.
It’s the globalization of Americanization
Wtf didn’t believe the hype in their president but this guy knows what he’s doing. Props to him
Fr he actually deserves his title as president
The cool thing about a dictatorship is crime is very low. The not cool thing is that so are personal liberties
Wait 10 years. Believe it or not, people were willing to die for putin in early 2000s... now people literally die for putin and nobody wants him in power anymore, but it is too late. Bukele will be no different
I thought the same thing. In the end he did it. I hope to surf in El Salvador one day.
If you're a foreigner visiting El Salvador do yourself a favour and DON'T go to American stores they're priced the same as the U.S. in other words extremely expensive in El Salvador so help the local economy out and try local cuisine or small mom and pop stores that offer the kind of food you want, they have a little bit of everything: Italian, Chinese, Indian, Caribbean, Japanese etc. but you'll get more bang for your buck if you stick to eating local Salvadorean food.
I agree but idgaf I need a taste from home some days
@HurtsEnd totally understandable, I felt the same way too, had a month vacation over there and every few days I just had to have a burger or some kind of American fast food to hit the spot lol.
Not to mention the fact that they pay their employees the minimum wage. I have a cousin that works at Pizza Hut in El Salvador. He makes $1 per hour.
@@HassanSabbakuthere are local “fast food” restaurants that may or may not be franchises but are available in many smaller cities or towns like pollo campero or other variations. They have lots of us foods like us pizza or beef burgers. Even though they are supposedly fried chicken restaurants that serve fried chicken. I won’t miss us fast food that much cause I don’t eat there often cause I can just go to the store like Sam’s club and buy frozen chicken and fries and just air fry them. As tasty and can have as much as I want. El Salvador has crazy amount of frozen fried chicken options and different brands even in small shops. They even have ranch packs!
El Salvador was named one of the world’s safest countries in 2023. It became safer than USA in 2023
It's about to become more dangerous in the USA. The illegal immigrants gangs have been arming themselves, so when they go in to round them up, it'll basically be an insurgency war like the last two.
What's funny though, is that people are like, "Trump can't deport these people, there are only 6,000 CBP agents." (It's actually 60,000; but the ATF has around 6,000, so the two may be confused.) What they don't realize is that military assets can be tied to civilian law enforcement agencies, so those door kickers cleaning out a gang from Manhattan might not be CBP regulars, but US Marines. 🤣
The Marines don't generally have an MO of taking prisoners in gun battles. They generally have to bag up the people they face.
It's 2024 almost 25 it's no where close to number one it's 98 out of 133 countries
@@JChap427 depends on the source of information
I wouldn't trust the word of any international organization
@@JChap427it used to be the murder capitol of both the americas if not the whole world
The three countries in Latin America that have dollarized their economy are El Salvador, Ecuador, Panama.
When
@sekurus4950 in the 2000s they've had the dollar policy for quite a while since both countries currencies are very unreliable in international trade and setting up monetary policy
Using the dollar is a good way to protect your economy from amerikkkan attack
El Salvador isn't in South America
@@mary._.yamborghini You're right it's in Central America
Well, EL Savador has been working hard to clean up the criminal gang problem. With that, the Standard of living is going to increase. Having another winter vacation destination is a good thing-even better for the people who live there.
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My family is from El Salvador and I was so happy to finally go this year, truly a beautiful placw
A friend of mine opened an electronics store and Called it Radio ShOck. Lol
lol very cool.
I loved El Salvador when I lived in Honduras. It was like being home in the US just right across the border.
Idk about that. Mexico literally has all the major fast food from the US.
All the major chain stores like costco sams club Walmart, AutoZone O'Reilly's,napa,starbucks,illy etc.
I have heard food court items in Mexican Costco are better than USA.
@fredlin6303 when I went to visit family down there the other year, we got to try the mango smoothie before the US got it. Was so good, just tasted like straight up fresh pureed mangoes. When it came to the US, idk how they messed it up so bad cause it was vile and nothing like the one we had. They had quite a few better items overall
Yes, but this is South America and Mexico is in North America so it is slightly different to see so many of those companies there.
@Eclipse1369 so A,get your geography straight. El Salvador is central America not south America.
And B you didn't listen to the video... He said El Salvador has more American brands than Mexico...... Which is literally what I responded to.......think before you make blind assumptions and get your facts straight
@Eclipse1369 im Salvadorian decent, and just to let you know, el Salvador is just below mexico. It's still in north America. The region is called central America but it's technically north American continent.
Wish we had some of that stuff I NZ, it’s mostly McDonald’s and local gas station pies
Proud to be salvadorean 🇸🇻
And they use the same electrical system we do. So no need to bring power conversion to travel with equipment
I’m visiting El Salvador now that criminals aren’t walking free terrorizing the world, and they use the dollar!!! Never thought I’d want to visit El Salvador, but I am now’
Ya the dollar was adopted because the president in the early 2000s ,idk exactly when, but they sold the money printing machine that alot of people still hate about that administration. Things were cheaper back then. And yall could have gotten more for your buck. But they adopted the dollar because I guess they thought the gdp would go up more over time. But even then you could just exchange American currency for the local and it was easy and people mostly still accepted dollars. I was young so i might not be right on how exactly it worked but that's what I know.
That bus isn't that old. 😕
The mall and Walmart in El Salvador is just like here with small differences. The KFC had rolls instead of biscuits and you didn’t get a 1 liter from Pizza Hut. It was a 1.5 liter I believe. Shout out Super Selectos for keeping me fed during my stay.😂
I guess you visited El Salvador in 2022? KFC had this Box5en1 thing that included a roll with the chicken. They've always had bisquits
@albertorojas472 I visited in 2011 when it was still wild.
@@andirememberu wow, you really have guts! El Salvador back then was a total mess. If you come again you'll see a different country
@albertorojas472 No, im just US military lol. We built a few schools there. We had El Salvadoran military police the whole time lol.
@@andirememberuworst years
It peaked 2015
The whole country is passionate to not ever regress to that point again
I saw a Sears there like 2 months ago
Radio shack had me pausing for sec to confirm what i was seeing lol.
They still got a lot of brands that went away in the US like Quiznos Sears and Office Max.
The crime rate is also similar!
Bukele is my hero
Bukele did that. El orgullo de Latino américa 💪💪💪
No he didn’t. Literally everything in this video has always been in El Salvador.
We also use pounds instead of kg
and now that they imprisoned all those dangerous criminals, it's actually safe to go there as a tourist. The school buses are an interesting quirk because yellow "school" buses are very rare outside of the US and US territories as almost no other country uses yellow as the color of their school buses.
Most of them aren’t yellow, if you go to a bus terminal, most of them are painted in really bright blues or greens
Australia has kmarts
Seriously?
They also have woolworths
Yea pretty much every country in Central America has those things. Fun fact❤️
Ecuador has a lot of these things including using the US dollar. I think most of the Susan B Anthony dollar coins are here. $1 bills are somewhat rare. Gallons, pounds, and some other US measurements are used for various items while metric is used for others.
God bless President Bukele!
God bless the South
A second gen IC CE bus being considered old is crazy
Genuinely looks like a livable place now
In The United States 🇺🇸 I Pay $2.89 A Gallon 76 Cents A Liter In The Past It Was $4.09 A Gallon Or $1.08 A Liter
Shout out to El Salvador
Salvador has 70% in poverty.... its notable difference
Apparently there’s a laundry list of countries that use the US Dollar as their official currency. Besides El Salvador you have Panama (obviously), Ecuador, Palau, even Micronesia. There’s more too.
The buses aren't anything new in latin america. We got some in mexico, we call them "la ruta"
You may correct one thing, I stay in México every month andso far ive seen big US brands everywhere like Starbucks, heb , walmart , cotsco , sams , mcdonalds , little ceacers, holiday inn, , hard rock , cheesecake factory, Victoria's secret, carl juniors and many many,
more!!!
Type below the ones in missed ♡
You wouldn't be travelling there if Bukele had not become president
I visited El Salvador in 2013 also
@@AuthenticTravelingwas it more dangerous?
@@33.044bro 😭😭😭 big YES
Along with the US Dollar, Bitcoin is legal tender in El Salvador.
Mixed feelings
RadioShack still exists in America, I saw one open in Wisconsin near the dells and there’s probably more than that
I was actually astonished seeing that Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, i personally own one myself.
Your wife is lucky to have you as a travelling companion ❤
Both countries have also seemingly fully embraced fascism...
Best comment here.
Lmaooo
Kamala lost lol.
@ernst91 yes, she lost to a guy who's own chief of staff called a "fascist to the core" maybe try paying attention
They have a sick looking bus there!
It looks like the old USA before GREEDflation!
thx obama and biden
I hope this nation after he is gone keeps this up
We also measure our height in centimeters but our weight in pounds
Bro please don’t bring an influx of annoying tourist to my country please, just let El Salvadorians have this cuz we all go back and visit because it’s still amazingly affordable but with Americans coming and buying land they’re making the price skyrocket just like here in Los Angeles where I live
Don't you think that's hypocritical
You're in their country correct
Bukele wants tourism.
Its almost annoying that our crappy fast food spans the entire earth 😂
Supposedly obesity is skyrocketing in some Arab country that really loves McDonald's and other pizza, fried chicken and burger places
There was a documentary on it from Vice many years ago
El Salvador: Hey can I copy your homework? USA: Yeah just make sure to change it so it doesn't look like you're cheating.
nah gas at 3.70 with their economy is crazy
I didn't know that Radioshack was from the US, I thought it was a brand from here haha
The name is in English and you thought it was from El Salvador?
@JhonnyBoi There are a lot of english brands here, i didn't know it was american
I don't know. I'm getting strong blue, Taylor vibes with this one. There's a lot of speculation around her taking money from Britney funneling it to the kardashians and something to do with Kylie selling part of her company to Coty
RADIO SHACK! FVCK. Let's go! fr 😂😂
The US could take some notes from the new changes happening in El Salvador
Song name in the background? I dont speak much Spanish but it sounds fire
Its trash
@@ultramasterultra5724it's overplayed
Goated* @@ultramasterultra5724
I don’t know the name of the song, but I always look up “qué horas son mi corazón”
The reason you see that is not a coincidence, everyone can look up the information why this is, Honduras has the same situation
Props to El Salvador for actually trying to improve their county
This seems like a country who doesnt seem to spite the U.S. which it seems like a lot of other countries do. Some countries I swear try to be the exact opposite of us but still work with us
How do accommodation (cheap rooms) and food costs (bought in central public markets where poor people shop) compare with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua?
All the same but only Southern Mexico is as cheap as the others
El Salvador is more expensive than all the countries mentioned. As a Salvadoran, it's cheaper for me to go on holidays to Guatemala or Mexico than it is to stay at a nice Airbnb/hotel here.
@@charliervr I said for poor people, people that don't need a fancy place. People that don't spend $3000+ a month on accommodation because that is what typical AirBnB's cost now in poor countries.
I mean hotels where poor people vacation to there. Local people. Like your maid, handyman, gardener, etc. When you travel a long time you just cannot blow so much on your accommodation.
@@AuthenticTraveling All the same? Wow, you are one with the details. Unbelievable answer.
@@FreshAirRules That’s exactly what I’m talking about my guy, I budget travel hard and it’s impossible to do that shit here. My maid, handyman, gardener and such can’t afford a night out of their homes. They don’t go out. El Salvador is Costa Rica level expensive and the tourism industry is not made for locals.
Susan b. Anthony's are not rare😂
Even coming from a big exchange new/in packaging Susan b Anthony coins cost 15-20 dollars each. They just get more expensive
How safe did you feel?
Even the us don’t have radio shack wtf
Sears Quiznos Payless and office max are still there
Remember the coin shortage? Yea it’s all over there
Did you see all the mass arrests and people who criticize the government getting arrested? Also, all the locals being forced to sell their property in the tourist areas for a loss?
Radio shake is crazy
Interesting
The best way to get your wife into the states is to file for fiance visa for her and then do a court marriage within 90 days
It's actually very common for Latin American countries to use old school buses for public transit
They’d be hopeless without US
Now the average Salvadoran can’t afford basic needs. Everything is the same price as the USA except for the wages.
Bukele doing God's work
So is Putin, depending on who you ask
Sounds like they got colonized lol president did a good deed only to sell it out to Americans lmao 😂
Wtf? Was that a RadioShack????
Im so proud of el Salvador keep pushing
For the longest time, the salvadorians had a lot to learn from america. Today it seems that america could stand to learn a lot from el salvador.
Good one discovering what most of latam has exepct the currency
What happends if i am a tourist from usa and exchange my money is another country.. is the money circulating around that country? Or does it ever go back to USA FOR A FEE?
El Salvador is probably the most genuine Ally to the United States in Central America. I will be taking my vacation and my money there instead of Mexico.
This is my family's ancestral home
They have a RadioShack wow
I’m visiting El Salvador now
Almost as of they're in North America
Radio Shack is very popular in Latinoamérica
We got El Salvador becoming more American than the US before GTA 6
Viva El Salvador 🇸🇻 viva BUKELE!!!!!!
“3.60 is what we pay in the United States” if you live in Idaho.
I would love to go to el Salvador right now
woah i follow you on instagram too lmao
There's a radio shack in cle elum Washington
Take note folks, which economic system turned El Salvador COMPLETELY around in the last 5 years? Not seeing a lot of government owner businesses here
Only your rental had MPH speedometer , all other cars there are KM/H
It would probably cost the country more money to make their own currency than to just use the dollar and bitcoin.
Not really, they only dollarized as a desperate measure iirc. Jus look it up and read about it but it's much better for a sovereign country to have their own currency cus they'll have more control over their economy, so it actually hinders el Salvador and a couple others to grow their economy which el Salvador desperately needs.
its the same case in panama
This goes to show how it’s kind of BS to say that only 3 countries haven’t gone metric in the world. The reality is that there are a lot of countries using a wide variety of different units, just because they are officially metric doesn’t mean other units aren’t in use by people in day to day life
Radio shacks still exist in the US.
Me gustas tu 😊 🎵
Yay My country is Recognized 🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻
What can we say, everyone wants to be like the US