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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.
I hate to say it but even among the first-generation Latino immigrants I've met in California they lean conservative. I think in general the type of people who can manage to jump through all the hoops of legal immigration in the US are going to be either more privileged or more invested in capitalist ideals than the average person from these countries.

Which is not to say that there aren't some radical people too.

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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!
https://mobile.twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1531450848290684928

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1532026722979291137

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.
Boric is doing a great job at demonstrating the concept of social fascism

America Inc. has issued a correction as of 22:11 on Jun 1, 2022

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

New video of Matt Lee making Ned Price cringe dropped
https://twitter.com/camilapress/status/1531843085134602240?s=20&t=756BCaxkqXC8N8lVcAdmDA

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Camila Vallejo is basically Boric's press secretary right?

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008


for gently caress's sake

Man Musk
Jan 13, 2010

https://twitter.com/OutOfContextMex/status/1532121776477687810

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.
It appears that Petro's 2nd round challenger Rodolfo Hernández is indeed getting the support of the Colombian establishment, as members of his campaign team met with those of the defeated uribista Fico Gutiérrez and members of the Colombian government. So much for "outsider".

https://twitter.com/NoticiasUno/status/1531606419119783937?s=20&t=5_TDjmK7Ao_KMy7w1f-bIg

E: the members of the Colombian government involved were the Vice-president and Minister of the Interior, essentially the maximum representatives after the president himself.

America Inc. has issued a correction as of 08:13 on Jun 2, 2022

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Kind of a given that the Columbian establishment backs the fascist

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!
https://mobile.twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1532721756728958978

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/RedRadioVe/status/1533137140900577280

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.
The Colombian president Iván Duque has been put under house arrest for 5 days after failing to comply with an order from the Colombian Supreme Court to establish protections for a natural park.

In other words: the standing Colombian president will finish his term under house arrest.
https://twitter.com/elespectador/status/1533187934182166530?t=N42U_NQ-MOA3Eeli-WOiDA&s=19

America Inc. has issued a correction as of 23:13 on Jun 4, 2022

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.

Oh no you see haven't you heard of the traditional Venezuelan chair-throwing celebration? La Sillatina.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

quarantinethepast posted:

The Colombian president Iván Duque has been put under house arrest for 5 days after failing to comply with an order from the Colombian Supreme Court to establish protections for a natural park.

In other words: the standing Colombian president will finish his term under house arrest.
https://twitter.com/elespectador/status/1533187934182166530?t=N42U_NQ-MOA3Eeli-WOiDA&s=19

he's going to miss the Summit of the America because of this I assume

Brandon stays winning

edit: reuters says he's not going to be confined to his residence, but it's still funny to have this happen to the one leader who actually wants to go to the summit.

quote:

BOGOTA, June 4 (Reuters) - A court in Colombia has ordered President Ivan Duque to be fined and placed under house arrest for five days, it said on Saturday, citing the Andean country's leader failure to comply with a previous ruling that demanded he protect a national park.

Experts say the order by the court in Ibague, the capital city of Colombia's Tolima province, has no chance of being carried out. Colombia's president can only be accused and investigated by a special legislative commission, and can only be tried by the country's congress.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-court-orders-penalties-president-cites-national-park-2022-06-05/

Atrocious Joe has issued a correction as of 18:27 on Jun 5, 2022

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

Atrocious Joe posted:

he's going to miss the Summit of the America because of this I assume

Brandon stays winning

edit: reuters says he's not going to be confined to his residence, but it's still funny to have this happen to the one leader who actually wants to go to the summit.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-court-orders-penalties-president-cites-national-park-2022-06-05/
Speaking of, AP has a story about the disaster of a summit

quote:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When leaders gather this week in Los Angeles at the Summit of the Americas, the focus is likely to veer from common policy changes — migration, climate change and galloping inflation — and instead shift to something Hollywood thrives on: the drama of the red carpet.

With Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador topping a list of leaders threatening to stay home to protest the U.S.’ exclusion of authoritarian leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, experts say the event could turn into a embarrassment for U.S. President Joe Biden. Even some progressive Democrats have criticized the administration for bowing to pressure from exiles in the swing state of Florida and barring communist Cuba, which attended the last two summits.



With China's influence expanding, most nations have come to expect — and need — less from Washington. As a result, the premier forum for regional cooperation has languished, at times turning into a stage for airing historical grievances, like when the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez at the 2009 summit in Trinidad & Tobago gave President Barack Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano's classic tract, “The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.”
Matt Lee contributed to this article

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️
Self proclaimed greatest capitalist country is scratching its head about why others are shunning it for it's lack of profits

Brrrmph
Feb 27, 2016

Слава Україні!
Hola

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Fast Luck posted:

Speaking of, AP has a story about the disaster of a summit

Matt Lee contributed to this article

omg this Ben Rhodes quote

quote:

“It’s a huge missed opportunity,” Ben Rhodes, who led the Cuba thaw as deputy national security advisor in the Obama administration, said recently in his “Pod Save the World” podcast. “We are isolating ourselves by taking that step, because you’ve got Mexico, you’ve got Caribbean countries saying they’re not going to come — which is only going to make Cuba look stronger than us.”

To bolster turnout and avert a flop, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris worked the phones in recent days, speaking with the leaders of Argentina and Honduras, both of whom initially expressed support for Mexico’s proposed boycott. Former Sen. Christopher Dodd crisscrossed the region as a special adviser for the summit, in the process persuading far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and hasn’t once spoken to Biden, to belatedly confirm his attendance.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-covid-politics-health-6efb4c2bde5d080a9ee400a0981f7a61

Oh, so I guess Kamala does want Central Americans to come to the US now.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

He's sending chris dodd, the senator famous for nearly matching biden's performance in the 2008 democratic primaries

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Atrocious Joe posted:

omg this Ben Rhodes quote

https://apnews.com/article/biden-covid-politics-health-6efb4c2bde5d080a9ee400a0981f7a61

Oh, so I guess Kamala does want Central Americans to come to the US now.

wait I think this is the guy that Scott Ritter was talking about. saying he's the poor schmuck who had to go begging maduro for oil after his department spent months talking about juan guiado as the real president.

crepeface has issued a correction as of 07:49 on Jun 6, 2022

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.

crepeface posted:

wait I think this is the guy that Scott Ritter was talking about.

Talking about where, in a podcast or something? Idk who Scott Ritter is

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

quarantinethepast posted:

Talking about where, in a podcast or something? Idk who Scott Ritter is

UN weapons inspector for iraqi WMDs and one of the loudest voices about them not having any. really weird political path., went from right-wing bush voting ex-marine intelligence fox news and MI6 consultant to an anti-war guy.

he was saying that russian and venezulan oil is of a similar type, so the whole reason the US is dependant on russian oil in the first place is because the US had sanctioned venezulan oil. i think it was on richard medhurst's youtube.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
That Iraq WMD inspector sure knows a lot about oil.

Fast Luck
Feb 2, 1988

great stuff from the Miami Herald

quote:

...a diplomatic spat with Mexico and other countries that insist that the authoritarian governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua should be invited to the summit has underscored how democratic values are backsliding in the continent and how considerations over migration, seen by many as primarily a domestic U.S. policy issue, had dominated the debate over the invites.

The uncertainty about who would attend the Summit extended over the weekend.

By Sunday afternoon, the White House had not yet invited Juan Guaido, the opposition leader the United States and other countries recognize as the legitimate democratic authority in Venezuela.

“We were reliably informed that Guaidó was not invited,” said Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

“If Guaidó is allowed to participate as the ‘Venezuelan President,’ then we will have to uninvite ourselves,” he told the Miami Herald. “Antigua and Barbuda will not participate in any meeting with him because we do not recognize him.”
disinviting countries from the summit for the first time and receiving a backlash is a sign of democratic values backsliding. But the unelected Juan Guaido, we see him as the "legitimate democratic authority" in Venezuela.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1533828466461839361?s=20&t=tuwMyP0UedYRinynDq16XQ

You love to see it folks

https://twitter.com/MFA_China/status/1533790881609703424?s=20&t=tuwMyP0UedYRinynDq16XQ

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!
https://mobile.twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1533836947042467845

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

you’d think Biden would ease up on this poo poo considering he’s also trying to beg Maduro for oil

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

FrancisFukyomama posted:

you’d think Biden would ease up on this poo poo considering he’s also trying to beg Maduro for oil

yeah that's what i think is strange. there's some sort of thaw happening after the ukraine war but we're still being antagonistic for seemingly little reason

demographically it's probably time the dems gave up on south florida and the state in general

a few DRUNK BONERS
Mar 25, 2016

FrancisFukyomama posted:

you’d think Biden would ease up on this poo poo considering he’s also trying to beg Maduro for oil

they're deeply loving stupid and think they're playing hyperchess when all they're capable of is halfassed twitter propaganda

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012



US media gonna start/ramp up demonizing AMLO

https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1533829137651179522

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

gonna join the new st patrick's battalion

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1533827189728231425?s=20&t=Alp2wQ2EynHWZ0anhqn6Bw

Kamala got Honduras to send a minister, but the president isn't showing up

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I mean one thing we learned from trump is the foreign policy is kind of it’s own weird thing with its internal politics so it getting more scattered shouldn’t be to shocking

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.

It should be noted that AMLO said in this video that "va en mi representación, en la del gobierno, Marcelo Ebrard". In other words Mexico is still sending a representative, the Foreign Affairs secretary Marcelo Ebrard.

E: should have mentioned his function in government

America Inc. has issued a correction as of 20:59 on Jun 6, 2022

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!
https://mobile.twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1533829949165019136

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.
The Dominican Republic's Minister of the Environment Orlando Jorge Mera was shot dead "by a close friend":

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/orlando-jorge-mera-dominican-republic-environment-minister

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

The US didn't invite the Cuban government to attend the Summit of the Americas. However, they are happy to announce the guy who made "Patria y Vida" is representing Cuban civil society at the event.
https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/status/1533969488592326663?s=20&t=Kf3zt304zrLGRVChZBjHAw

he was so excited he sat in the front row of the civil society talk
https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/status/1533887275708272640?s=20&t=Kf3zt304zrLGRVChZBjHAw


also there's got to be at least 3 future western hemisphere coup participants in that photo. hold onto it for future reference.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Oh poo poo they're there instead of at the Summit to plan the replacement of the OAS

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1533986495727513600

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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Who better to represent Cubans in the Summit of an entire hemisphere than a tiny group of people who haven't lived there in 50 years and are largely identical to any group we would consider to be radical domestic terrorists if their target wasn't aligned with our goals

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