Lina Seiche
@LinaSeiche • 123,505 subscribers
Writer, cartoonist, plushie store owner, coffee person at @BeanofFire, living room concert pianist, making video essays ✍️
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How did Nayib Bukele “flip the switch” and make El Salvador the safest country on the continent? The short answer: he didn’t. There was no “switch.” Bukele only declared the War on Gangs once he knew he could win it within weeks. But to get there, it took years. Part 1 of 4:
Lina Seiche309,554 views • 2 months ago
The problem with modern leadership is that many of us have actually never experienced it. I didn’t realize this until I saw the difference first-hand. Where I come from (Europe), it’s normal to hate your government, and we regularly feel pretty embarrassed by the people who run our countries. We’re so used to the state throwing obstacles our way that we forget it should actually be the other way around. Now I’m on my third year in El Salvador, and it makes perfect sense to me why the media would regularly belittle Nayib Bukele’s achievements. He makes people turn around and ask their leaders why they can’t do half of what he does with 2x, 3x, 20x the resources. El Salvador is proof that crime and regression are a deliberate choice by the state. Everything changes when your surroundings get progressively better. You subconsciously adapt your time horizon, your risk appetite, your commitment to the world before you. Public servants should serve the people, not expect to be served by the people. Those at the helm must work their very hardest, because their work defines the opportunities for everyone else. The fact that this is exceedingly rare doesn’t make it any less true; it only means that if we do find it, we should really seize it.
Lina Seiche192,667 views • 4 months ago
The New Age of Kings. Monarchies are dated, but kings are coming back. Our kings won’t wear crowns or royal titles. They won’t even be monarchs; kings they will be nonetheless. A conversation about power, a deep-dive into the rise of strong leaders, and why it was inevitable.
Lina Seiche253,090 views • 6 months ago
The political philosophy of Nayib Bukele, the world’s most popular elected head of state.
Lina Seiche128,495 views • 3 months ago
It’s well known that Nayib Bukele entered Congress with soldiers in 2020, but few know the backstory, and even fewer know that exactly one year later, the outgoing deputies attempted to overthrow Bukele in a coup d’état. Part 2 of my mini series on the Territorial Control Plan:
Lina Seiche64,169 views • 2 months ago
What people get wrong about Nayib Bukele’s “authoritarian regime”
Lina Seiche194,385 views • 8 months ago
“El Salvador arrests innocent people” Let’s talk about this. It’s ironic that some look at the former world murder capital turned safest country on the continent, and the first question they ask is, “but what about the error rate?” That’s a slap in the face of 6 million people who, for decades, were innocent prisoners in their own homes. It suggests that any margin of error invalidates the operation that brought them peace. Nobody says El Salvador never makes erroneous arrests, and such errors must be corrected, which is what the justice system is for. Bukele himself has talked about this (see video below). Of course they’ll complain about the justice system next, but where were those complaints back when judges were bribed or extorted by gangs to protect murderers? If you believe that YES, El Salvador should arrest criminals, but NO, El Salvador is not allowed any margin of error, you are holding this country to a different standard than the rest of the world.
Lina Seiche49,268 views • 2 months ago
“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.“
Lina Seiche50,934 views • 2 months ago
Classroom 1 of 500 🇸🇻 Since I created Little HODLer, my brand has shifted a great deal towards education; it couldn’t have undergone a more meaningful evolution. The doors were open for us in El Salvador to add our small part to something bigger, and that’s a great privilege.
Lina Seiche38,723 views • 2 months ago