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> that's not a great benchmark

> US homicide rate is 10 times worse than my country and my country is just average...

Cool, but you have to compare El Salvador to its peers. How much money and continuity does your state have compared to ES? Even the poorest [GDP per capita] European Union states have literally multiple orders of magnitude bigger state budgets than ES. Getting homicide rate in Americas under the US average is a huge achievement, especially given how quick it was and how hopeless it seemed just a few years ago.

> small potatoes

Hahahahahah, maybe for you. It's the entire yearly budget deficit for El Salvador. These 700 million were the difference between life and death for many El Salvadorans who couldn't get their pensions or healthcare payouts raised with the inflation. Perhaps you could donate some "small potatoes", they really need it and it seems like you have more than enough.

> Lula was innocent BTW

I guess your investigation has turned up a new suspect?

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