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

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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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

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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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 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.

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~

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

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

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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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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Art of The Dipshit

Southern Costa. Long rights and long lefts.

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