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Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

SexyBlindfold posted:

Boric wins with a 10 point lead.

ALLENDE'S BACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNMqsPOPVYs

Grouchio fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Dec 20, 2021

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hello i am phone
Nov 24, 2005
¿donde estoy?

SexyBlindfold posted:

Boric wins with a 10 point lead.

Vamos Carajo!

Traveller
Jan 6, 2012

WHIM AND FOPPERY

Even with all the micros mysteriously vanishing during the day in Santiago :woop:

Redczar
Nov 9, 2011

Where is my dictadura gay!?

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Redczar posted:

Where is my dictadura gay!?
Where is that poster who's gay for Pinochet? I miss that signature

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!
The (un)official chant for Boric's coalition is
APRUEBO, APRUEBO, APRUEBO DIGNIDAD
QUEREMOS TODO GRATIS
Y TODO HOMOSEXUAL

hello i am phone
Nov 24, 2005
¿donde estoy?

Congrats to Gabriel Boric on becoming the second most powerful tool fan in the world.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Love wins baby

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

SexyBlindfold posted:

Boric wins with a 10 point lead.

Boric is confusingly close to Boris, and I hate it.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


hello i am phone posted:


Congrats to Gabriel Boric on becoming the second most powerful tool fan in the world.

Weird, his first action is changing the Chilean national anthem to Stinkfist?

Sephyr
Aug 28, 2012
Probation
Can't post for 15 minutes!
Let's hope the current CIA has been degraded enough to actually let him govern, now.

But I'm hyped for this merely because it shows that Mario Vargas Llosa is a loving loser who picks losers.

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo

Sephyr posted:

Let's hope the current CIA has been degraded enough to actually let him govern, now.

But I'm hyped for this merely because it shows that Mario Vargas Llosa is a loving loser who picks losers.

more like mario vargas llora lmbo

hello i am phone
Nov 24, 2005
¿donde estoy?

Dias posted:

more like mario vargas llora lmbo

ZearothK
Aug 25, 2008

I've lost twice, I've failed twice and I've gotten two dishonorable mentions within 7 weeks. But I keep coming back. I am The Trooper!

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021


Dias posted:

more like mario vargas llora lmbo

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!
catch that many L's, change ya name to Mario Vargas Lllllllosa

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Sephyr posted:

Let's hope the current CIA has been degraded enough to actually let him govern, now.
Under such logic then why did Evo Morales 'govern' scott-free for 13 years?

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!

Nenonen posted:

Boric is confusingly close to Boris, and I hate it.

Yeah folks just call him El Boris (or Boris Jackson, since people originally found it hard to tell him apart from Giorgio Jackson, who was also a former student leader who got into congress at the same time as Boric).

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Sephyr posted:

Let's hope the current CIA has been degraded enough to actually let him govern, now.

But I'm hyped for this merely because it shows that Mario Vargas Llosa is a loving loser who picks losers.

Been said before that the US has literally no friends in Latin America anymore apparently, the left, right and centre all hate them.

Isn't the CIA apparently all Mormons now? Guessing they're too belligerently racist, stupid and jingoistic to even pretend that they value their foreign puppets.

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
The CIA do have a friend in Brazil: former lava-jato judge and presidential candidate Sergio Moro

Fortunately, he wont be elected

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!
Kast did take a conspicuous trip to the US in the middle of the runoff campaign in order to meet with GOP figures (Marco Rubio, I think?), but half of his supporters now believe the US is a Soros-run nation of vampire pedophile marxists, so I don't know how well they'll be able to articulate. The right's still reeling from the results and it's unclear if they'll retain the broader mainstream + far-right coalition or if they'll split over Kast's leadership.

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Kissinger is around to see another socialist in Chile.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

SexyBlindfold posted:

Yeah folks just call him El Boris (or Boris Jackson, since people originally found it hard to tell him apart from Giorgio Jackson, who was also a former student leader who got into congress at the same time as Boric).

I'm referring to one Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, I don't want to hastily misread a headline as 'Boris gains massive victory' and spoil my mood. Not Boric's fault, but I would prefer him to be called 'Gabriel' to avoid this. :(

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Nenonen posted:

I'm referring to one Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, I don't want to hastily misread a headline as 'Boris gains massive victory' and spoil my mood. Not Boric's fault, but I would prefer him to be called 'Gabriel' to avoid this. :(
Why not call him Boss Magellanic?

Redczar
Nov 9, 2011

Give the north back to Peru

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!
strong argument for Wallmapu separatism

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Redczar posted:

Give the north back to Peru

gently caress no let Chile annex Argentina

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Redczar posted:

Give the north back to Peru


lol look at the department sizes, that's a desert with like five people

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

i say swears online posted:

lol look at the department sizes, that's a desert with like five people

governing it is probably the Chilean equivalent of

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

SexyBlindfold posted:

Kast did take a conspicuous trip to the US in the middle of the runoff campaign in order to meet with GOP figures (Marco Rubio, I think?), but half of his supporters now believe the US is a Soros-run nation of vampire pedophile marxists, so I don't know how well they'll be able to articulate. The right's still reeling from the results and it's unclear if they'll retain the broader mainstream + far-right coalition or if they'll split over Kast's leadership.

I'm actually a little surprised he conceded, given how far down the 'gently caress democracy' rabbithole his political tendency is.

Sephyr
Aug 28, 2012
Probation
Can't post for 15 minutes!

Grouchio posted:

Under such logic then why did Evo Morales 'govern' scott-free for 13 years?

Same reason Lula also got a grace period: US was busy with the Great War on Terror, trying to juggle two flaming knives called Iraq and Afghanistan while also hoping to add another named Iran to the game.

Also, they expected the LA left to kinda fail and get voted out on its own.

But as soon as it became clear under Obama that the GWOT had hits it high watermark and receded, the subcontinent saw a wave of judicial coups and 'anti-corruption' probes kindly assisted by the US law agencies.

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo
Also I feel like the dynamics of foreign politics meddling changed a lot with the advent of social media and widespread broadband internet access.

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.

Dias posted:

Also I feel like the dynamics of foreign politics meddling changed a lot with the advent of social media and widespread broadband internet access.

The tactics definitely aren’t as overt as before.

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.
So apparently Cubans are buying basic goods in euros now?

An article from June:

quote:

Barrera se refiere a la decisión del gobierno de Cuba de dejar de aceptar "temporalmente" desde este lunes dólares en efectivo, en una medida que es vista por economistas como la más restrictiva impuesta sobre la moneda estadounidense desde que estuvo penalizada durante parte del gobierno de Fidel Castro

A partir de ahora, los cubanos dentro de la isla tendrán que utilizar otras divisas extranjeras para acceder a los escasos productos básicos que solo se encuentran en unas tiendas que creó el gobierno hace un tiempo y donde se aceptan únicamente "monedas libremente convertibles" (MLC).

...

Sin embargo, los analistas coinciden también en que las principales afectadas serán las familias cubanas.

"Los más perjudicados son los cubanos que residen en la isla, le están haciendo la vida a la gente cada vez más difícil. Ahora van a tener que usar una moneda que es más cara, el euro, para comprar bienes y servicios", opina Mesa-Lago.

The problem seems to lie in a government initiative earlier in the year to dolarize their economy which backfired with high inflation. The pandemic has really done a number on the country.

For a more recent update as of a few days ago, the Cuban government has admitted (source: Agencia EFE based in Madrid) that their economic reform policies haven't worked out as desired, with inflation of 60% in basic goods.

E: also I'm sorry for posting stuff in Spanish with no translation, I try to summarize and avoid translating everything. If you have questions about the sources I'll translate for you or use Google translate.

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.
Also Cybersyn 2 in Chile when

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!

proletariando posted:

So apparently Cubans are buying basic goods in euros now?

An article from June:

The problem seems to lie in a government initiative earlier in the year to dolarize their economy which backfired with high inflation. The pandemic has really done a number on the country.

For a more recent update as of a few days ago, the Cuban government has admitted (source: Agencia EFE based in Madrid) that their economic reform policies haven't worked out as desired, with inflation of 60% in basic goods.

E: also I'm sorry for posting stuff in Spanish with no translation, I try to summarize and avoid translating everything. If you have questions about the sources I'll translate for you or use Google translate.



Doesn't sound like it's in a crisis.

https://www.pcc.cu/noticias/en-2022-avanzaremos-gradualmente-en-la-eliminacion-de-la-inflacion-no-sera-facil-pero

WhiskeyWhiskers fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Dec 22, 2021

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Redczar posted:

Give the north back to Peru


Bolivia needs a port for its navy

hoiyes
May 17, 2007

proletariando posted:

Bolivia needs a port for its navy
What's wrong with Cocacabana?

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

Thanks for this. According to this source, the Cuban economy has also grown by 2%:

quote:

Aunque no se compensará la caída sobre el 13 por ciento del Producto Interno Bruto que se ha acumulado en parte del último bienio, 2021 cerrará con un alza estimada en el entorno del dos por ciento, recordó.

America Inc.
Nov 22, 2013

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even 500 would be pretty nice.

hoiyes posted:

What's wrong with Cocacabana?

Isn't that a Jimmy Buffett song?

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

proletariando posted:

Thanks for this. According to this source, the Cuban economy has also grown by 2%:

I mean, that source is the official website of the Cuban Communist Party, so caveat emptor about those numbers.

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