#043: My Guatemala Residency Appointment, RENAP, Uber, and El Salvador's Mega Prison

In this episode, I walk you through my actual residency appointment at Guatemalan immigration — start to finish, what it looked like on the ground, how long it took, and what happened when RENAP put the wrong birthday on my DPI. Then I get into Uber in Guatemala, what most Westerners need to get over before they get in one of those cars, and one driver who used a 45-minute rush-hour ride to explain to me why he preferred meth over cocaine. After that I get into something that's been genuinely pissing me off — the libertarian think-tank obsession with gutting boomer and retiree wealth.

These groups are getting face time with elected politicians, and unless people are willing to call out the bullshit loudly and often, they keep operating without pushback. I close out with El Salvador's CECOT supermax prison. A liberal British journalist toured it, talked to the people who actually lived under gang rule for decades, and couldn't find a single person unhappy that the gangsters are behind bars permanently. Funny how that part didn't make the headline. Compassion for the victims, not the victimizers.

UK Daily Mail article on El Salvador’s CECOT Super Max Prison: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15833361/Richard-Madeley-El-Salvador-brutal-mega-jail.html

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