We Need to talk about El Salvador (Feat. Mario Gómez and Oscar Salguero)

Today Bennett and Cas are joined by two Salvadoran natives - Mario Gómez, a developer who was arrested in El Salvador for voicing criticism about the Bitcoin bill, and Oscar Salguero, a senior software engineer who has been traveling to and from El Salvador, testing the limits of the cryptocurrency remittance services. Para nuestros oyentes en español, hay una transcripción disponible aquí: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2022/03/29/episode-63-we-need-to-talk-about-el-salvador-feat-mario-gomez-and-oscar-salguero/#spanish-transcript This is an incredible episode. If you want to follow Mario on Twitter, please click here: https://twitter.com/mxgxw_alpha If you want to follow Oscar on Twitter, please click here: https://twitter.com/OscarSalguero (or his website https://oscarsalguero.dev) Here are some of the articles and stats referenced during the episode: https://video.vice.com/da/video/gangs-of-el-salvador-part-1/5633b710023f0a102ad05e14 https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vk5x/nayib-bukele-ms13-murder-rate https://camarasal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SondeoEmpresarial35422_FINAL10032022.pdf https://diario.elmundo.sv/economia/solo-el-14-de-las-empresas-reporta-ventas-en-bitcoin-segun-encuesta This episode was recorded on Thursday, March 24th, 2022