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Future Days posted:On tonight's episode of 'Latin Americans can't have nice things': And just look how happy he is.
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Boner Slam posted:Re: Cuban Healthcare OK, these seem like outright lies right from the get-go. That first one, on the Cuban government declaring dengue eradicated, is completely bonkers. Dengue is still alive and well in the Caribbean, and while one isn't likely to catch it, getting sick from it isn't a big surprise. So the Cuban government declaring that it does not exist is a bit insane, even for insane communist governments that keep a tight lid on the flow of information. Anyways, I have a bit of spare time this summer, so expect me to be posting periodical Puerto Rican politics updates! Mostly they'll consist of me scanning El Nuevo Día--the island's main newspaper, and also a rag--for any stories that look interesting. In tonight's episode: a politician is under investigation for using public funds to remodel his house! http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/politica/nota/enproblemaselalcaldedecatano-2060331/ (spanish) The short version: José Rosario Cruz, the mayor of the town/municipality of Cataño, wanted to have his home remodeled in 2011. The project, which would cover 4,357 sq ft, was quoted to cost $82,000. At about the same time, he requested funding for building an office building that would be ~4,300 sq ft. Four years later, there's no office building that large, but the mayor is rocking a nifty new home. Tune in for future episodes about : -a steadily worsening drought -our collapsing economy -the buildup to the 2016 elections and much, much more!
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Future Days posted:On tonight's episode of 'Latin Americans can't have nice things': Did they at least manage to count the votes right this time?  Edit: Del Sel called someone "clownish" 
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Jun 15, 2015 04:05
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For anyone wondering what is going on: there is a three-way split with each candidate being just a fraction of a decimal either above or below 30%. Everyone is accusing everyone else of fraud.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:02
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:For anyone wondering what is going on: there is a three-way split with each candidate being just a fraction of a decimal either above or below 30%. Everyone is accusing everyone else of fraud. You'd think if one of them had committed fraud they'd have done it enough to win.
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Jun 15, 2015 18:22
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Badger of Basra posted:You'd think if one of them had committed fraud they'd have done it enough to win. Maybe all of them commited fraud at the same time.
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Jun 15, 2015 19:14
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Isn't there ballotage? We have ballotage for everything and not this?Also from what I saw two candidates were extremely close (less than 1%) while the other was farther away, but not by that much.
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Jun 15, 2015 22:35
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Badger of Basra posted:You'd think if one of them had committed fraud they'd have done it enough to win. It's Argentina, it is much likelier to count on all 3 being too inept to even do fraud properly.
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To bring the thread's focus away from the Southern Cone (cabrones argentinos  ) in less than a week the Dominican Republic is set to deport thousands of citizens who had the misfortune of being born after 1929 to Haitian (or Haitian-descended) parents. For those who don't know, there's historically been a pretty horrifying prejudice in the Dominican Republic against Haitians. Relevant articles:http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kurlansky-haiti-dominican-republic-citizensh-20131110-story.html http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/17/dominican-republic-to-begin-haiti-deportations.html Also time for Puerto Rico updates. Reminder for gringoons that the main sources for these are Spanish-language newspapers. -the ongoing drought is predicted to be the worst in decades. Rationing is set to become the norm very soon unless we get some serious rainfall. http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/sequiapodriaconvertirseenlapeordelasultimasdecadas-2061577/ -the Puerto Rican economy is circling the shitter, and pretty fast at that. The island's government has taken on massive amounts of debt over the decades and, unlike other economies, it can't declare bankruptcy. At all. We've already had our credit rating downgraded a couple times in the last few years (I believe Moody's currently rates us at "lol") and pretty much all sectors look pretty hosed. About 68 public schools are going to be closed (which is actually good news; the original plan was to shut down even more!) due to education budget shortfalls. Governor Alejandro Garcíа Padilla insisted that, although he never considered shutting down the government, he has thought about declaring insolvency. -one of the big issues for our economic woes is the fate of the Electrical Energy Authority (AEE; Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica), which is similarly flat broke. In past weeks, the government has pretty much cleaned out the previous AEE administration and put a new one in place to try to turn it around. One Puerto Rican congressman proposed privatizing energy production and changing the AEE's role to one of energy distribution as opposed to energy production. -the pro-statehood political party NPP (New Progressive Party, spanish: Partido Nuevo Progresista aka PNP) is making noise about cajoling Congress into recognizing the 2012 referendum as a clear indication that Puerto Ricans want statehood. In other news: sky blue, water wet.
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Jun 18, 2015 00:57
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That's why we cant have nice things
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Jun 25, 2015 21:00
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Elias_Maluco posted:That's why we cant have nice things Pro troll.
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Probably a quip about his father in jail to go along with it too.
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Jun 25, 2015 21:36
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:iamafag: La picardía del chilenshdk;cefdhj
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Jun 27, 2015 15:24
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Help my dad is yelling that the US is wanting to take down the Brazilian president to take ARE OIL
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Jun 30, 2015 16:50
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gently caress. Yeah.
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Jul 5, 2015 00:50
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This is actually terrible news.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Help my dad is yelling that the US is wanting to take down the Brazilian president to take ARE OIL gently caress your oil, we're already the world's #1 producer. Why would we ever want dirty sugar ethanol when we gots corn?
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Jul 5, 2015 17:43
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is actually terrible news. Football schadenfreude best schadenfreude. Actually it's the political kind that is the best, but that one only comes every so often. Like today! PS: gently caress Buenos Aires.
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Jul 5, 2015 18:06
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is actually terrible news. If you live on the wrong side of the Andes.
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wateroverfire posted:If you live on the wrong side of the Andes. Which side gets increased rainfall from climate change?
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Latin American far left dot jaypeg "This victory by the PRO (Center-right party) is a maneuver by the (Clarin, a media) corporation to divert attention from the visit of the Peronist pope to our America." 
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Jul 7, 2015 03:28
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Didn't Peron had a huge loving beef with the Catholic Church though? IIRC during one of the Coups that took him down his supporters even torched churches.
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Future Days posted:Latin American far left dot jaypeg BTW I saw this article on Gizmodo, being that we all loved Reagan Book and Freedom book, the place sounds wonderful. (Plus I despise evangelicalism as a general rule wherever it infests). http://gizmodo.com/how-hard-is-it-to-get-kicked-off-brazils-sin-free-fac-1715979391 Gizmodo posted:How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook?
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How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook? How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook? How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook?
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Future Days posted:Latin American far left dot jaypeg Didn't Peron 'disappear' (kill) a whole load of Communists?
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So, Clarín made someone win the elections only so they could cover up that the Pope the government said was part of the dictatorship at first but now claim as one of their own is visiting Ecuador? Makes sense.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:How Hard Is It to Get Kicked Off Brazil's "Sin-Free" Facebook? How long until the Pentecostals take over your country?
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Badger of Basra posted:How long until the Pentecostals take over your country? When Cunha decides to coup and go full Nehemiah Scudder so in at least 2 years
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Didn't Peron had a huge loving beef with the Catholic Church though? IIRC during one of the Coups that took him down his supporters even torched churches. Jonad posted:Didn't Peron 'disappear' (kill) a whole load of Communists? For all "Didn't Perón do [the exact polar opposite of what this peronist is saying/doing/supporting]?" questions, the answer is, invariably, "Yes. Your point?"
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:When Cunha decides to coup and go full Nehemiah Scudder so in at least 2 years "Try me," Dilma says 
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SexyBlindfold posted:For all "Didn't Perón do [the exact polar opposite of what this peronist is saying/doing/supporting]?" questions, the answer is, invariably, "Yes. Your point?" Political views are complicated, and left, right, and center aren't truly meaningful, especially with regards to Peronism. There are "propper" leftists who left a booby-trapped bust of Eva in a town square. They supported the poor and the unions, right? Well, kind of.
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:A+ Puerto Rico posting. Do you guys think you could square the circle if congress offered special constitutional amendments for Puerto Rico on ascension to statehood? For the record I'm in favor of having Puerto Rico, Guam + the Northern Mariana islands become states and having either the virgin islands given to Canada or buying the British virgin islands from them to create a viable state.
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Puerto Rico would be super ultra duper hosed if we became independent so I hope that never happens.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Puerto Rico would be super ultra duper hosed if we became independent so I hope that never happens. Lobby the rest of us for statehood. You should want statehood enough that you make us grant it to you.
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 A pro-troll by Evo.
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Badger of Basra posted:
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So I found this out from the Gaurdian that the dictator of Honduras is not suprisingly a corrupt sociopath and there was a huge protest there recently concerning his actions. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/04/honduras-protesters-stage-biggest-march-yet-to-demand-president-resign Teh Grauniad" posted:Honduras protesters stage biggest march yet to demand president resign
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Crowsbeak posted:So I found this out from the Gaurdian that the dictator of Honduras is not suprisingly a corrupt sociopath and there was a huge protest there recently concerning his actions. Some dailycaller spinoff website the intercept, cites Clinton and her State Department as "wanting the permanment ouster of Zelaya after all." Source is dubious and the date of their articles is the day of the week it was published, so this could be in any time period around her email release.
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quote:Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman escapes from prison again http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/mexican-drug-lord-joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-escapes-prison
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They forgot to mention the fact that he used a 1.5 km long tunnel to escape, complete with electricity, ventilación, and an adapted on-rails motorcycle to remove the earth.
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