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Pinera's low approval rating proves that he's no threat to democratic order and the right man for the job, unlike the dangerous Morales and AMLO who prop themselves up with being popular thanks to good governance -WaPo, probably
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no poo poo? lmao Can't wait to tell this guy: Ruzihm posted:
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maybe the real coup was the friends we made along the way
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The US is going to help stop stop quote:Pompeo says U.S. will help prevent Latin American protests becoming riots
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The Guardian is willing to publish open letters with tons of outside signatories telling the truth about Bolivia but their own coverage is all "clashes" and "disputed elections" and "interim president"
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vyelkin posted:The Guardian is willing to publish open letters with tons of outside signatories telling the truth about Bolivia but their own coverage is all "clashes" and "disputed elections" and "interim president" Most of the people in charge of the Guardian are spooks who have praised the UK ministry of defence D-notice process (prior restraint spiking stories before publication) and serve on the "collaborative" committee between the MoD and the press: https://twitter.com/DCKennard/status/1138493594728304640?s=20
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i lust for the blood of gusanos
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Fast Luck posted:https://twitter.com/OliviaArigho/status/1200893793224052737
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comedyblissoption posted:afaik Extinction Rebellion, whose banner was flown to organize protests across europe against bolivian embassies right before the coup under this environmental concern trolling, has not disavowed any of this (although they made sure to kill an XR socialists chapter) Yeah, that was Jhannise Daza's work. And don't kid yourself, none of them even know about this. They aren't paying attention.
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them being completely ignorant that their name was used to try to greenwash a literal fascist coup is the best possible outcome, but this greenwashing was coordinated with major newspaper publications tying the XR name to these protests against bolivia lol
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Hey, I'm currently reading up on the history of Latin America. I just got done reading Open Veins and wanted to know if there was anything similar written for the last 50 years.
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Tiny Caribbean islands count as Latin America right? https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1201681766563667968
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brugroffil posted:Pinera's low approval rating proves that he's no threat to democratic order and the right man for the job, unlike the dangerous Morales and AMLO who prop themselves up with being popular thanks to good governance You jest, but the way they usually frame this is that the popularity results from an aversion to making _~hard choices~_ (i.e. cutting benefits like a responsible adult). The shorthand for this is the word "populist" that's used in a derogatory fashion with the added bonus that it conflates right-populism and left-populism in people's minds.
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But does that Strongman's populism play well in his supporters' strongholds, or just with the party loyalists he's packed government with?? The language US newspapers use to cover these other countries could very easily be applied to other "Western" countries and especially the untied states itself, but never is 
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Emmanuel Macron's plan for France adds bewilderment to despair: Many Frenchmen adamant peaceful solution is no longer possible Macron was seeking reassurance yesterday from his American ally Donald Trump, who is seen as a strongman broadly unpopular at home but adept in exploiting the country's intense sectarian divides. Rallying his supporters from local militias last year, he denounced pro-Democracy protesters as "rapists, murderers" and maintained his critics should be "locked up". International rights organizations have sounded the alarm over the country's overcrowded labor camps where inmates are often kept in unsanitary conditions, separated from family and prevented from contacting the outside world.
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420 Gank Mid posted:Tiny Caribbean islands count as Latin America right? may I request context for what government is currently in power and who the opposition is? the opposition party is called “United workers party” iirc but that doesn’t mean anything I suppose.
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Extremely wikipedia based research: The United Workers' Party is a centrist political party in Dominica. As of the 2009 general election, it is the only opposition party represented in the House of Assembly of Dominica, holding three of the twenty-one seats. Its past Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly is Hector John. In the 2000 election, the UWP were defeated by the DLP, led by left-leaning Roosevelt P. "Rosie" Douglas; however Douglas died after only a few months in office.[14][28][29] He was replaced by Pierre Charles, who also died in office in January 2004.[14] Roosevelt Skerrit, also of the DLP, replaced Charles as Prime Minister, becoming the worlds youngest head of state.[14] Under Skerrit's leadership, the DLP won elections in May 2005 that gave the party 12 seats in the 21-member Parliament, to the UWP's 8 seats. An independent candidate affiliated with the DLP won a seat as well. Later, the independent candidate joined the government and one UWP member crossed the aisle, making the total 14 seats for the DLP and 7 for the UWP.[16]
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He’s Labour. If Camila is reporting sympathetically on him and OAS is trying to sabotage his elections that makes it pretty clear who’s who. Kind of darkly amusing she also retweeted the PM of Suriname currently making the same kind of complaints. CIA knives out for 1000-Twitter-follower PMs of tiny island nations PS - everyone in this thread should subscribe to Camila’s patreon if you have the money. TeleSUR can’t pay her anymore because of US sanctions but she’s still reporting from all these places. https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1201159015151079426
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an entire country of population 71k lmao that's like a small city, but as a whole country must be wild
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brugroffil posted:But does that Strongman's populism play well in his supporters' strongholds, or just with the party loyalists he's packed government with?? 
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lmao that is still the provided definition, incredible meanwhile in the US we have no less than three billionaires running for President and that's after another lovely billionaire dropped out already lmao
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brugroffil posted:an entire country of population 71k lmao literally smaller than my hometown in podunk Wisconsin lol also ty thread for answers
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brugroffil posted:an entire country of population 71k lmao tiny island nations like Dominica are way more legit than feudal holdovers like The Vatican or Monaco
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for sure it's just hard for me to conceive of living in a metro area that small let alone an entire country (have lived in or near Chicago my whole life) nothing at all wrong with being a tiny island nation just completely outside of my experience
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Sometimes at work I would get on Google maps and just look at islands around the world and just imagine what it's like to be that isolated camera pans out to me, ironically, alone at a desk
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fun fact about the tiny island nation of Dominica: a group of US white supremacists and neo-Nazis, including a genuine German Nazi and one of the guys who would later found the website Stormfront, attempted to invade the island in 1981 in order to set up a white colonialist utopia. They had a bunch of business contacts in apartheid South Africa whose help they intended to enlist to bring in a steady stream of weapons and volunteers once they'd established a foothold, in exchange for giving those business contacts preferential treatment when deciding how to divide up the island's resources for 'development'. Dominica does technically have some white people in it but they're a vanishingly tiny minority, a thousand or so people at most, so the plan would have involved importing large numbers of white people from the US and South Africa (targeting Rhodesian exiles in particular was apparently part of the plan) in order to establish a South African style apartheid government. They assumed they'd be able to get away with it because the Dominican government was broadly left-wing and intended to frame their actions as a crusade against communism; they even found a disgruntled ex-Prime Minister who was willing to serve as a puppet leader of their 'rebellion' to give it some legitimacy. They figured if they could play up the anticommunist angle, get some big business figures on their side, have a local figurehead providing a veneer of legitimacy, and win quickly, they could get the US to recognize their new government. fortunately for humanity and unfortunately for them, they were all idiots. They managed to get a pretty big pile of supplies - weapons, ammunition, explosives, military uniforms, helmets, rubber dinghies with outboard motors, and swastika flags - but they didn't have any way to get them from New Orleans to Dominica. They decided to rent a boat. Rather than telling the guy they were renting it from some bullshit story about using it for a fishing trip or something, they told him they needed his boat for a secret CIA operation, and the guy immediately called the cops. Their initial invasion party was arrested on the dock as they were preparing to leave. none of them spent more than five years in jail because it turns out there is very little the US government is unwilling to excuse so long as you're doing it in the service of white supremacy
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https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14738 posted:Caracas, December 5, 2019 (venezuelanalysis.com) - The president of the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) has criticized the “unacceptable” politicization of humanitarian aid to Venezuela.
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Google News could only find a single mention of this apart from Venezuelanalysis'. Of course it inserts a pile of weasel language, but in case anyone needs a link to an imperialist source: https://www.france24.com/en/20191202-red-cross-slams-unacceptable-politicisation-of-venezuela-aid
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Addamere posted:the US really hates the global south It kind of hates poor people everywhere, including within its own borders.
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duomo posted:didn’t even take a full page https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1202698671504216064 "A court packed with loyalists gave him a green light to run indefinitely."
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a country packed with loyalists, too 37 loving votes? that's the definitive proof? like what the gently caress
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comedyblissoption posted:thankfully Real Democracies never have courts packed with Loyalists making decisions affecting the outcome of presidential elections never happened. marbury v madison was a gentlemans' disagreement lesser civilizations cannot comprehend
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