In 2022, while I was living in Ecuador, I got in touch with Alejandro Muyshondt.
Alejandro was the one who introduced Bukele to Bitcoin in 2018, as he was facing 'inbound liquidity problems' to finance his political campaign.
He told me: 'I pushed the BTC law, worked from scratch.... Chivo was just collateral in order to have BTC approved.'
This whole thing was rushed, security was not really a factor; hence now the problems with leaked source code of the Chivo Wallet ATM network, for example.
In 2023 he accused a congressman from the ruling New Ideas party of corruption and drug trafficking - before getting arrested himself in August 2023, for alleged crimes, including leaking documents to journalists.
Then, in February 2024, he died in custody under mysterious circumstances:
'A preliminary report found he died of pulmonary edema, a build-up of fluid in the lungs, according to documents published by local media. [...] contact with certain toxins, medications, and trauma to the chest wall can also cause it.'
But wait, there is more: Muyshond was the cousion of Ernesto Muyshondt, former mayor of San Salvador, who is in a psychatric hospital, facing legal proceedings over alleged crimes himself.
Since Nayib's crackdown on the MS13 gang, many (innocent) people have died in prison.
EFE writes: 'According to figures presented on Feb. 24 by the NGO Socorro Jurídico Humanitario, some 235 inmates have died in El Salvador’s prisons during the country’s state of emergency, with 48% showing signs of violence and 30% dying due to lack of medical care.'
Meanwhile, Bitcoin maxis are telling you that El Salvador is a paradise of freedom.