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The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward. I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress. When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment. Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks. They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around. Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits? The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

El Salvador won't be perfect tomorrow. But it's heading somewhere. And for the first time in a long time — the kids growing up there can actually picture a future in their own country. That matters more than any stat. If you're rooting for El Salvador, drop a 🇸🇻 below.

3 million Salvadorans live outside El Salvador. For decades, remittances kept the country alive. Now something is shifting. People are going back. Investing. Building. The diaspora isn't just sending money home anymore — they're bringing everything they learned. That's a different game. 🇸🇻

El Salvador is not a perfect country. But it's a country fighting for itself — and winning. If you're Salvadoran, drop your 🇸🇻 below. Let's find each other. Nuestra gente. Always.

El Salvador has some of the best left-hand surf breaks on the planet. El Tunco. Punta Roca. La Libertad. Pro surfers from Brazil, Australia, and the US are now flying in specifically to surf these breaks. Soft power is real. And El Salvador is quietly building it wave by wave. 🇸🇻

El Salvador put Bitcoin on its balance sheet before any government told them to. They were mocked. Called reckless. The IMF threatened to cut off funding. Three years later, that Bitcoin is up. New hospitals are built. GDP is growing. Sometimes the crazy bet is the right bet. 🇸🇻

Mike Tyson Invitational nights, round 2 happening July 25th in Las Vegas. Would be massive to take it international. 😉

Most people don't know this about El Salvador: It's the smallest country in Central America — about the size of Massachusetts. Yet it's home to 6.5 million people, ancient Mayan ruins, two volcanic lakes, black sand beaches, and some of the best surf breaks on the planet. El Salvador has always been extraordinary. The violence just stole the headline. 🇸🇻

🇸🇻 Builders build You can download the Nemotron-Personas-El-Salvador open dataset at @huggingface Link: huggingface.co/datasets/nvid…

The next wave of Salvadoran talent isn't waiting for permission. Young founders. Coders. Designers. Athletes. Artists. Building in San Salvador, in LA, in DC, in Houston. The diaspora and the homeland are finally pulling in the same direction. That's a different kind of force. 🇸🇻

Amazing to see how a society with determined leaders can grow so fast when its neck is no longer being crushed by brutal gang violence.

El Salvador just opened a world-class public hospital — free for all citizens. New roads. New ports. Airport expansions underway. People talk about El Salvador's security story. Not enough people talk about what's being built while the cameras are off. The foundation is being laid right now. 🇸🇻

There are more Salvadorans living outside El Salvador than inside it. Over 3 million in the US alone. Doctors. Engineers. Artists. Producers. Athletes. We didn't just survive leaving. We built entire lives in countries that didn't want us. And now the next generation is going back to build the country our parents left behind. 🇸🇻

If you're a Salvadoran kid growing up right now — pay attention. You're living through the chapter your grandkids will study in school. Your country went from war zone to watch list — the kind the whole world is watching for the right reasons. Don't let anyone tell you where you come from is a limitation. It's your superpower. 🇸🇻

With everything going on in this world, there is nowhere I’d rather be. Gob has blessed El Salvador.

In 2015, El Salvador was the murder capital of the world. In 2026, it ranked in the Top 10 startup ecosystems in Latin America. Same country. Same people. Completely different trajectory. Whatever you think about the methods — the results are undeniable. 🇸🇻

People said Singapore couldn't become what it became. A small country. No natural resources. Surrounded by doubt. Sound familiar? El Salvador is positioning itself the same way. Crypto hub. Tech investment. Tourism boom. Safety restored. The countries that get written off first are usually the ones that shock the world next. 🇸🇻

El Salvador just had its best year for international tourism in recorded history. Hotels sold out. Surf camps fully booked. Airlines adding routes. The same country that was on every "do not travel" list is now on every "hidden gem" travel list. That's not marketing. That's a country rewriting its own story. 🇸🇻