Comments by "Bibi Tiptoes" (@bibitiptoes1473) on "Does El Salvador's Bukele have too much power?" video.

  1. They are building an army, aren't they? 🙄
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  2. So he is a law school dropout, and his puppeteers push Bit Coin scam. Interesting.
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  3. Citrus fruit trees were brought to Sicily by the Muslim invaders from North Africa in the 11th century A.D.  The whole bay of Palermo used to be called the Conca d’Oro, the “Shell of Gold”, either because it glittered in the sunshine with all its glowing citrus fruits or because of the immense wealth they brought to Sicily. In the 17th century, Palermo’s land-owning barons sold their fruits to all the north European exploring and trading ships that passed through the Mediterranean to stock up with scurvy protection before their long trips. The EU decided to control supply and demand of European food production with its mad Common Agricultural Policy. Put very simply, the EU pays subsidies to Sicilian citrus farmers to NOT produce the fruit. The subsidies were higher than the amount they could earn by harvesting fruit and then selling it at prices which the EU imposed. Getting paid to do no work is of course, for the Mafia, an offer they can’t refuse. Getting EU grants and funding is now definitively the core business of the Sicilian Mafia. They make more from it than trafficking drugs and illegal weapons, their other two main businesses. So, in the 1980’s, the Mafia decided to butt in.  The old citrus orchards in the bay of Palermo still had all their underground irrigation tunnels which the Mafia bosses wanted access to. They also wanted the massive EU subsidies. They weren’t interested in actually growing citrus fruits, and they ran the industry into the ground. At the central fruit markets they decided who could buy and sell, at what price, and to whom. Many farmers who still had a citrus orchard chose to burn it down and switch to olive production. With the Mafia fixing the prices and anyone not part of their organisation excluded from selling, it became a dangerous business.
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