The images coming out of Latin America are hard to ignore. Tens of thousands of gang members in Bukele’s El Salvador lined up, shoulder-to-shoulder, waiting to be placed in prison, their rights suspended as a result of a crackdown on gang activity. Hundreds of government workers for AFIP—Argentina’s version of the IRS—standing in a multi-level gallery, papers drifting down to the bottom floor as they learn the agency has been shuttered. While the two presidents have radically different politics—Bukele a totalitarian, and Milei an anarcho-capitalist influenced by Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto—they are parallels in their willingness to act, something that is noticeably lacking in Europe and the United States.Most of the developed West finds itself mired in some form of bureaucracy-dominant,

Read More »