[wongarsu]

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to have a lot of negative ripple effects in a couple of years. Think of all the children now growing up as parents: how many of those are going to become criminals.

Not saying El Salvador went the wrong path. Sometimes you need extreme measures to get out of extreme problems, and at least in the near-term it obviously created great results. But I would withhold judgements on the applicability to healthier states until we had a chance to observe any long-term effects.