text:  repressed the broader population. It seems highly likely that he committed fraud in the 2017 election. All of these things were accommodated by the U.S. government because he said all of the right things on the subject of fighting crime, drug interdiction, and immigration. And so it became very easy for regional leaders like this to play the United States because the U.S. interests were so obvious. When you say they said the right things, what kind of things do you mean?