Not going to spend my surf trip money supporting a country that is running US concentration camps.
they could have this wrongly imprisoned father back to his children in 12 hours if they werent being so evil. i am not OK with this
so long El Salvador

https://www.usatoday.com/story...or-prison/83079141007/

Edited: 04/14/2025 at 05:09 PM by paddleout

El Salvador was just promoted to level 1 for safety. travelmaps.state.gov

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wavewatcher - >ww - >wavewatcher, again

Seems to be showing as Level 2.

It's always shady.

Fox. Someone had fun writing the headline. I think for surfing visitors it's probably fine. Bodyboard Holidays, a very well run bodyboarding trip organizer in Cornwall, goes to Costa Rica and El Salvador. Bali, southern Sumatra, and even a surf park. They dropped trips to California. Maybe Portugal is better?

BTW, Surfline's southern California forecasting sees a setup for southern hemisphere south swell starting at the end of April and running well into May. Could be worth checking their views for south-facing beaches well south of Calif.

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how do they rank for secret/notsosecret US black sites?

Edited: 04/15/2025 at 07:18 PM by paddleout

I think the main Panama worry is that they have had an extremely friendly government, and as with Denmark and Canada, Trump administration threats may ruin those relations.

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Only til he and his are gone. U.S. of A.'s friends will wait this out while hammering down future harms as they may appear that affect each country along the way. Plans are in the proverbiale works 'inside', that speak to this now, since to this point,, missed--.

I already booked so Im in despite my disgust with the world's alleged "coolest" dickhead.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Man, i would just cancel it and go to Southern California. Support freedom.
El Salvador is OK for surf, but so is Old Man's, Cotton's Point, Swami's and more.
Plus its easy to book and youre not supporting an illegal gulag. my2c

Why not just spend your dough closer to home, get more bang for your buck, and support a place and peeps that could more better use it in it's society-- "PR"! SoCal got's enough, enough,, of everything already~

PR's not a bad idea. or Costa
but El Salvador's off the list
Its not that great anyway.

Meh. & when you factor in the gulag black sites, its a hard pass sorry surfcaster

No more El Salvador. F that guy.

CA is waaaayyy more shady

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"If I say it's safe to surf this beach, captain, then it's safe to surf this beach!"

No it isn't. That idea is laughable.



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I was right.

Yes laughable, as is this entire post

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"If I say it's safe to surf this beach, captain, then it's safe to surf this beach!"

El Salvador and Belize are the only Central American countries free of Malaria, according to the World Health Organization.

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wavewatcher - >ww - >wavewatcher, again

Awww, look: another magat who got his kook ass whipped in California.
El Salvador has always been a somewhat shady fascist/criminal regime.kind of country.
Check back on experiences with the early nomad/hippie types back when.
If you know someone from there kinda insider type probably, maybe okay. But now that baby blimp is creating chaos,....who knows?
I'll take an uncrowded Santa Barbara point or a Ventura/ Oxnard summer west swell over that anytime.



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It's a democratic hoax

Edited: 04/24/2025 at 05:21 PM by nukeh2o

That said, those are some reeeaally good surf spots.

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It's a democratic hoax

I have been to California and I have been to El Salvador. California has 911, hospitals, local police, country sheriffs, FBI and State police in case things go bad. El Salvador has a new strong police presence, but when those cops are gone, there is no one you can call that will get there in time to change anything.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Sounds like Surfcaster is one of the 29% of Americans still telling themselves that the Concepts of Tariff Plans are going to somehow work out for the best... LOL

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Southern Costa. Long rights and long lefts.

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sorry to hear you support wife beating, human smuggling, ms 13 gangbanging terrorist paddleout

+1

Says who? Are you positive your accusations are truthful?

As paddleout stated, isn't this for the courts to decide?



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I was right.

for a 'wife beating terrorist' his wife sure worked her ass off to get him back
how do ya figure that one?

i support Rule of Law and Due Process, not snatching people off the street and shipping them out to a foreign concentration camp for life in prison before anyone notices

Sorry but you can save your Fox narrative for someone who is willing to overlook the bigger picture by getting scared of boogie men

if you are all so sure hes guilty (and maybe he is, that is for courts to decide) you surely shouldnt have a problem putting him before a judge and following the rule of law

instead you are ok with your boogieman wisked away in the night like its East Berlin

if this were Salem, Mass you'd be right there chanting 'burn the witch' about a 13 year old girl tied to a stake because some crazy priest told you she was the devils daughter---- what are you thinking?

El Salvador sucks they can have it

Edited: 05/09/2025 at 08:45 PM by paddleout

Paddleout for the win !!!!! Surf down there waaaay back Craig Peterson, Kevin Naughton days. Was ok. Cali points are better but seriously crowded. I'm into empty waves, no politics these days !!! Not telling where, but ya'll wouldn't go anyway cuz you have to wear a wetsuit.....thank god. Big up to Wavewatcher, my wetsuit sponsor !!!!!

Edited: 05/09/2025 at 11:49 PM by Dahui321

Get back in your NSR cage you bunch of libtards. Whats the matter? Nobody over there to argue with?

Speaking of NSR, look who finally came out of hiding.. it's the 80 year old Magaloid from Jacksonville that's too ashamed to show up in NSR now LOL

Hey Choptard, have your grocery prices come down yet?

Was it worth it to cut your Medicaid & Meals on Wheels?

Start saving your Social Security while it's still around, Your next made-in-china Red Hat is gonna cost quite a bit more HAHAHA



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Edited: 05/12/2025 at 10:41 PM by fishkller

On the plane now. American only charged me 35 for the boards. Pretty comfortable for the the 2.5 hour flight out of Miami. Swell looks good.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Pumping at La Bocana in El Tunco. We avoided the crowd by going at high noon bc anyone with any sense would be hiding from the sun and the heat at that time. 5 guys out. Well overhead and very good. I'm going to have to wear a hat next time.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

The sad thing is that- even after our current circus is gone- still no more El Salvador for me- due to what their current dictator has already done

Wont be forgetting anytime soon

I'm going to give the great state of California some of my money this summer. Yes, it's crowded in the AM, but as soon as the first puff on onshore wind dapples the surface, they are out. Trestles with an onshore flow is still better than 98% of Florida surf.

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Edited: 05/19/2025 at 06:37 AM by Cole

Just got back from El Salvador. We had a great swell and surfed a lot of good places. Stayed at Punta Roca Surf Resort with Bob Rotherham, who pioneered surfing there. His son Jimmy, the former national champion, was our guide. We would not have been able to paddle out at Punta Roca and ride a wave on the point without him giving the locals that look to back them off. They all watched that first wave very closely. If you botched, you may as well leave. We surfed La Bocana a few days, surfed behind the motel at Concal. It was never small. It was often big. I brought a brand new 6' creatures of leisure leash and it was 10' by the end of the day. My son smashed his knee and board on the rock dance getting out. His board was repaired back to new in 24 hours by the guy on the point for 30 bucks. Tipped him another five. THere are new malls being built and the road through La Libertad is fully under construction with only one lane at a time allowed. Progress has been fast and furious there and everywhere they building.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

more/bigger prisons for the world's unwanted? hehehe


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Edited: 05/19/2025 at 07:23 PM by fishkller

El Salvador's economy has grown, like most of the rest of Central America but remains less well off than the Bahamas, Costa Rica, a bit worse than Guatemala, better than Nicaragua and Honduras.

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wavewatcher - >ww - >wavewatcher, again

Where'd you run off to Chopstik?

Had to cut the internet bill to pay for groceries?

Still on hold with Social Security?

Looking for a Medicaid replacement?

Where you at?

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I'm pretty sure that most Salvadorans are still in the honeymoon period with Bukele. They are all enjoying prosperity, order and tourism. They explained to me that before Bukele, El Salvador was essentially a failed state and police officers wives were being murdered in broad daylight if they refused bribes. Bukele ran cleaning that up. He did. He incarcerated over one percent of his population in jails that are death dungeons. There are no trials or sentences, they are just in these Supermax facilities until they die.

This is the problem with dictators. We onlookers are well aware of the dangers of that much power in one man. Creating order there was not easy or fast and required people as hard as the gangmembers. Those people are still around once the bad guys are gone and they are still using that same playbook. The early choices for a dictator are simple. After four years, the best choices are the much harder ones. Enemies of the state with ms13 tattooes are the easy enemies in the early years of his presidency. As the years go by, what stops Bukele from identifying political enemies as enemies of the state? What happens to people being held with no charge or sentence? What about elections?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

http://www.politico.com/news/m...ente-gonzalez-00363966

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

well he is back. and he's facing a judge like he should have been allowed to in the first place, since this is America after all.

So Trump and Latino Trump were lying to you when they said it couldnt be done.
He is also pleading not guilty. I guess we shall see what they have on him, or

wait for it

don't have.











Edited: 06/16/2025 at 08:50 PM by paddleout

The White House has a list of "proof."

Is it accurate or are they liars? The courts will decide.

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I was right.

He's now a human trafficker because the car he was stopped in had many people in it. I don't know how the Government can prove that a bunch of people in a car are being trafficked without knowing who those people are, where they were being trafficked to and from and how they will get that testimony from them. Without that, they wont make it past jury selection.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

A human trafficking trip to Southern California sounds like a lot of fun.

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I was right.

Who knew..

turns out those forced family road trips in the back of the 'ol Country Squire during the mid seventies was actually human trafficking.

Next they're gonna tell me my Mom was a cartel leader

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They will make no such allegation (if she's white).

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.