El Salvador Begins Crackdown on Meme Gangs
San Salvador – In his first term, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele produced extraordinary change for his crime plagued country. His criminal justice focus and gang crackdowns brought the murder rate in El Salvador down to Gary, Indiana levels much to Salvadoran citizens delight.
Now the newly elected Millennial president is working with American Podcast host Max Keiser, the "Robledal de El Salvador" (The Oak Grove of El Salvador aka El Salvador's Cheney) to crackdown on a different type of gang, meme gangs. El Salvador has traditionally struggled with violent drug trafficking gangs such as MS-13 and the CIA but internet gangs like the 58k Gang, MemeFactory, Moscow Memetards, and the infamous Triple Elite Memes come with their own sets of consequences.
Since El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender in 2021 meme gangs have sought refuge and asylum in the country. There were little to no issues, at first, but Bitcoin's bear market as well as the economic and mental hardships that come with it, created low level conflict between meme gangs which has since boiled over, risking destabilizing the peace Bukele has worked tyrannically to acheive.
El Salvador will focus primarily on the 58k Gang at the outset. Bitcoin's recent price rise exceeding $58,000 caused the predictable rise in 58k Gang activity which observers hope will subside as the price continues to rise but could explode if the price enters a crab market in this range. The fiercest and most autistic meme gang, Triple Elite Memes, has seen most of its members rounded up and thrown into El Salvador's new federal prisons. El Salvador's military intercepted a planned TEM ambush of Swan Bitcoin's Swan House in El Zonte late last year capturing TEM leader Mars Hodl, who has been kept in solitary confinement in a rural Salvadoran prison since the military operation's success.
Not all meme gangs are feeling Bukele and Keiser's wrath, however. The MemeFactory cut a deal with the government recently, agreeing to self police their autism in exchange for clemency. They've also agreed to host a Bitcoin Halving party this spring in El Zonte which is expected to bring in Bitcoiners from multiple different countries. Each visitor traveling to El Salvador for the Halving Party is expected to generate $1000 for the El Salvador economy via the tourist visa tax, hospitality spending, Bitcoin ATM fees, and papusa consumption by MF capo, Greg Zaj
