Resolution:
President Nayib Bukele's crime-fighting policies in El Salvador provide a model for reducing violence in other Latin American countries.

For the affirmative:

Peter Gietl is the managing editor for Return and Frontier magazine for Blaze Media. He is a journalist and editor covering human stories in the digital age, from crypto to AI to transhumanism. As the managing editor for Frontier he runs a premium lifestyle magazine dedicated to the hope and dynamism of the unfolding American future; covering the people, trends, products, and visions at the epicenter of that new future. He lives in Texas.

For the negative:

Ricardo Avelar is a journalist, editor, and political analyst from El Salvador. He holds a BA in Political Science from Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala, and an MSc in International Relations of the Americas from University College London. He is currently a senior journalist, editor, and chief satirist at Revista Factum, one of the leading investigative outlets in Central America. He has been the Political Editor at El Salvador's largest newspaper and a researcher on the rule of law, democracy, and electoral integrity. In 2021, he co-directed a docu-series about a coup attempt led by Nayib Bukele on February 9, 2020.

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