Haha as someone who listened to the entire Twitter spaces chat last night, it's amazing how ignorant HN is about what's actually happening on the ground in El Salvador.
To add color to the source you shared, no where in the article (or in my research) does anyone claim that what the majority elected Salvadoran government did here was illegal, only that their opposition didn’t like it and so called it a ‘coup’.
Based on my understanding the elected government was well within it’s rights to replace these judges under the constitution of the country. Also to echo the sister comment here, many of these judges were highly politically active oponents of the newly elected government.
Here is another good read if you want to understand the historical context in which El Salvador is operating [1]
In short, one of the primary reasons that El Salvador is in a difficult position financially and politically at all is the history of war crimes committed against them by foreign governments such as the United States.
In the 1980’s the US Government spent $1-2 million US dollars per day to fund a 12 year long proxy civil war to defend US imperial interests. This resulted in the US Government directly funding the training and recruitment of an army of child soldiers. The country is still dealing with the ramifications of this war today.
I see your claims that new El Salvador government is evil and raise you 1 US Government with a history of war crimes against the country.
There's statements from the EU,UN, and Human Rights Watch condemning the actions. I'm not an expert, but dismantling the justice system utterly (especially when it is critical to the government) isn't something to be taken lightly in any democracy.
I will admit that I don't know the reality on the ground as an outsider. However, it seems to me just as likely that this is a political struggle between the new government and their opponents.
As for the EU and the UN, these are the same orgs that supported the US/Canada/French/German/Italian 2011 War of aggression against the Libyan government, with the backing and support of the UN. Ostensibly it was in the name of taking down a dictator, but we now know it was for his crime of daring to try to build a pan-African currency (the gold-backed Dinar) that was not subject to the central banks.
I hear you claim that credible first world organizations (the United Nations!) condemned the action. (Please share those articles so I can review sources). However, given the track record of western colonial powers oppressing smaller and weaker governments, or invading them based on false pretexts, I find your unsourced claims to be dubious at best (Where are those WMDs in Iraq that the US and the EU claimed existed?)
It's really superficial, for example it mentions arbitrary descisions from part of the supreme judges, but completely gloss over the fact that they were members of political parties and we're seen at rallies all over the country, they delayed clear cases of corruption from previous governments and that's more than enough reason to get them out according to the constitution.
People want ARENA and FMLN out of the country for good.
Are you saying its surprising (or “amazing”) that people didn't spend 4 hours on fake Clubhouse listening about a country with an economic output of a single US equity talk about a plan that was unveiled less than a week ago and passed a day ago?
Even the most enterprising enthusiasts have barely gotten back home from the bitcoin conference in Miami
On HN if you try to post anything even remotely positive about bitcoin you get downvoted to oblivion, so it usually doesn't feel worth posting. For an introduction about El Salvador I highly recommend Jack Maller's talk where he made the announcement.
