Chapter 102: Shithole

387       “PRESIDENCIA DE LA REPÚBLICA” Seal pictured in Víctor Peña and Carlos Barrera, “The Day the Commander-in-Chief Militarized the Legislative Assembly,” El Faro, February 10, 2020, elfaro.net/es/202002/ef_foto/24005/El-d%C3%ADa-que-el-comandante-en-jefe-militariz%C3%B3-la-Asamblea-Legislativa.htm, via Google Translate. 

387       patrol nearby streets Peña and Barrera, “The Day the Commander-in-Chief Militarized the Legislative Assembly,” elfaro.net/es/202002/ef_foto/24005/El-d%C3%ADa-que-el-comandante-en-jefe-militariz%C3%B3-la-Asamblea-Legislativa.htm.

387       look down from surrounding rooftops Peña and Barrera, “The Day the Commander-in-Chief Militarized the Legislative Assembly,” elfaro.net/es/202002/ef_foto/24005/El-d%C3%ADa-que-el-comandante-en-jefe-militariz%C3%B3-la-Asamblea-Legislativa.htm.

387       5,000 people gathered “Some 5,000 supporters of Nayib Bukele waited for more than three hours for the president’s arrival to hear his speech.” Peña and Barrera, “The Day the Commander-in-Chief Militarized the Legislative Assembly,” elfaro.net/es/202002/ef_foto/24005/El-d%C3%ADa-que-el-comandante-en-jefe-militariz%C3%B3-la-Asamblea-Legislativa.htm; and Carlos Martínez, “‘Now I Think It’s Very Clear Who’s in Control of the Situation,’” El Faro, February 10, 2020, elfaro.net/es/202002/el_salvador/24006/“Ahora-creo-que-está-muy-claro-quién-tiene-el-control-de-la-situación”.htm. 

387       liken the day to a liberation day Nayib Bukele proclaimed, “There is another article of the Constitution that does not give me the power, it does not give it to me, it gives it to the Salvadoran people, that when officials break the constitutional order, the Salvadoran people have the right to insurrection to remove those officials and reestablish the constitutional order.” Bukele quoted in Martínez, “‘Now I Think It’s Very clear Who’s in Control of the Situation,’” elfaro.net/es/202002/el_salvador/24006/“Ahora-creo-que-está-muy-claro-quién-tiene-el-control-de-la-situación”.htm, via Google Translate. For a full video of Bukele’s speech and march into the Blue Room, which depicts the scenic details provided in this Link, see El Salvador 2020, “Histórico.!!! Feb. 9/20 Concentración del Pueblo en Asamblea. Discurso Completo Presidente Bukele,” YouTube, February 15, 2020, youtu.be/i3-8ZXqqH4g?si=ck8AbRzr2NIyvsPv. 

387       “shithole” Donald Trump quoted in Josh Dawsey, “Trump Derides Protections for Immigrants from ‘Shithole’ Countries,” Washington Post, January 12, 2018, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html. 

387       portrayed . . . controlled by all-powerful transnational gangs Ali Watkins and Meridith Kohut, “MS-13, Trump and America’s Stake in El Salvador’s Gang War,” New York Times, December 10, 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/us/el-salvador-ms-13.html; and Lisa Cubías, “Trump’s War on Gangs,” Universidad de Navarra, Global Affairs and Strategic Studies, accessed September 30, 2025, www.unav.edu/web/global-affairs/detalle/-/blogs/trump-s-war-on-gangs. 

387       exporting murderers to the United States Rebecca Morin, “Trump: ‘Animals’ Comment Referred to MS-13 Gang Members, “ Politico, May 17, 2018, www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/trump-immigrants-animals-595118. 

387       and Italy Mario Portanova, “Nigerian Mafiosi? Savages and Cannibals’: All the ‘Pearls’ of Giorgia Meloni's book,” Il Fatto Quotidiano, September 16, 2023, www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2023/09/16/i-mafiosi-nigeriani-selvaggi-e-cannibali-tutte-le-perle-del-libro-di-giorgia-meloni/7289823/, via Google Translate.

388      almost all of whom had no record of violence Out of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants sent to El Salvador in March 2025, "the government knew that only six of the immigrants were convicted of violent crimes. Mica Rosenberg et al., “Trump Administration Knew Most Venezuelans Deported from Texas to a Salvadoran Prison Had No U.S. Convictions,” Texas Tribune, May 30, 2025, www.texastribune.org/2025/05/30/trump-el-salvador-deportees-criminal-convictions-cecot-venezuela. 

388      to a Salvadoran mega-prison Thomas Graham, “The El Salvador Mega-Prison at the Dark Heart of Trump Immigration Crackdown,” The Guardian, April 30, 2025, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/30/el-salvador-cecot-mega-prison-trum.

388      plans to send U.S. citizens Gram Slattery and Sarah Morland, “Trump Calls for Deporting Some Citizens to El Salvador, Testing US law,” Reuters, April 15, 2025, www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-some-us-citizens-el-salvador-2025-04-14/. 

388      “the replacers” . . . “replacists” Renaud Camus, You Will Not Replace Us! (Plieux, France: Renaud Camus, 2018), 20–21. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1091051149.

388      “There is no living together but . . .” Camus, You Will Not Replace Us!, 51, 192. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1091051149.

388      what Camus termed nocence Camus, You Will Not Replace Us!, 51–52. Find the library book at search.worldcat.org/title/1091051149.

388      founded the In-nocence Party in 2002 Norimitsu Onishi, “The Man Behind a Toxic Slogan Promoting White Supremacy,” New York Times, September 20, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/world/europe/renaud-camus-great-replacement.html.