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I guess 18th century news gets 18th century comments.
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iunno those slaughters were very 1980s, not 18th century
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Aug 26, 2023 00:29
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Apparently he's also banned The Red Cross because they gave medical assistance to people injured in a protest against him.
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Aug 26, 2023 00:45
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If Ortega really wanted to do something about religious conservatives he’d ban Protestantism let’s be real
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Aug 26, 2023 00:52
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i dunno how widespread it is in nicaragua but all the pentecostals in guatemala really freaked me out
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Aug 26, 2023 00:55
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Yeah, I really wouldn't be cheering on very much Ortega (and in terms of overall influence, more importantly his wife) is doing right now. The almost industrial scale detention and rape of people opposed to the current government deserves more attention but it's Nicaragua so people aren't really looking.
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Aug 26, 2023 01:04
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If we're talking 18th century: the Jesuits were pulled out of Latin America because they pushed back against colonial abuses. In the 20th century they were pushing for the adoption of liberation theology. As far as Christian organizations go they're on the left end of the spectrum and aren't really contributors to reactionary sentiment.
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Aug 26, 2023 21:48
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i say swears online posted:i dunno how widespread it is in nicaragua but all the pentecostals in guatemala really freaked me out Latin American Protestants are almost without fail some of the worst people around
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Aug 27, 2023 02:05
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Badger of Basra posted:Latin American Protestants are almost without fail some of the worst people around Yup. There's some talk in Brazil that the neopentecostal explosion of the late 70s and early 80s was a CIA op. It's just the kind of radioactive assholery that makes the Agency's boxers tingle, but o n the other hand, I feel like it coud not be a CIA gig because it worked super well.
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Aug 27, 2023 17:01
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cracking down on jesuits seems like taking steps to choke off the vatican NGO-land channel and assert control of educational institutions. i very much doubt it has anything to do with the historical wrongs of the catholic church fwiw cuba has also been more paranoid about the catholics since trump reversed course on thawing relations with them. it seems like a fairly standard regime-proofing method. the proven way to avoid colour revolution is to clamp down specifically on middle-class civil society organisations without too much violence; it doesn't upset most people *too* much, and the people who get really upset are the ones you just neutered. Sephyr posted:Yup. There's some talk in Brazil that the neopentecostal explosion of the late 70s and early 80s was a CIA op. it's probably more diffuse than a direct CIA op, but i would be legitimately shocked if it turned out that the CIA wasn't actively trying to help it along somehow
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Aug 27, 2023 18:39
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MixMasterMalaria posted:If we're talking 18th century: the Jesuits were pulled out of Latin America because they pushed back against colonial abuses. In the 20th century they were pushing for the adoption of liberation theology. As far as Christian organizations go they're on the left end of the spectrum and aren't really contributors to reactionary sentiment. this is especially prominent lately because of, well, Literally The Pope jesuit who's pretty lefty for an old Catholic and as such enrages the conservatives who weren't already enraged by A) him being non-Italian or B) Vatican 2
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Aug 27, 2023 19:12
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Milei going up to the US for an endorsement. https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1700251065000841377 In more interesting news, Mexico currently has two women frontrunners running for president, so that'll be neat. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66737242
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Venezuela: Gov’t to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program I uh, I guess the whole Chavistmo movement didn't work at all and they aren't just going to abandon whatever crumbs that ideology had to chase the Chinese dream now? Even pro-Venezuelan sites like this struggle to talk about the last 15 years and seem to just settle on everything being the fault of Western interference while awkwardly acknowledging that Venezuela basically just Neoliberalized itself, and pining for the days when the government had improved poverty.
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I was planning on traveling to Guatemala this December and for onece decided to do some research in advacne and apparently things are popping off there. I don't speak Spanish but this is the tl;dr I came across:quote:The current government is attempting a coup against the recently elected president and his team, because the new elected officials ran on an anti-corruption platform and the old, incredibly corrupt powers are not willing to leave without a fight. here's a longer article bythe Guardian: quote:Thousands of protestors have blocked roads across Guatemala in surging demonstrations to support the president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo, after the country’s highest court upheld a move by prosecutors to suspend his political party over alleged voter registration fraud. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Oct 7, 2023 11:05
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https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1711432344358576240 He's not lying, but for the sake of everyone's sanity I will not post the evidence to this thread.
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golden bubble posted:https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1711432344358576240 I'm glad to hear that, it belongs in the political cartoons thread.
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Peruvians mad that the new Paddington movie where the bear revisits his homeland will be filmed in Colombia. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/paddington-in-peru-legislation-film-industry
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Oct 10, 2023 00:34
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https://twitter.com/schmidtsam7/status/1713923060242235608 Whelp, I guess the US is offering to normalize relations with Venezuela on the condition of free elections. Might end up a poo poo show over definitions of "competitive election". I've also heard buzz that Senator Bob Menendez is a key person in maintaining the embargo on Cuba so if his indictment over being bribed with Egyptian gold ends up kicking him out, we might see normalized US-Cuba relations too.
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SlothfulCobra posted:https://twitter.com/schmidtsam7/status/1713923060242235608 Seems pretty meaningless. Does Maduro even have a legitimate opposition? https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-opposition-skeptical-maduro-will-follow-through-election-deal-2023-10-16/ More questions than answers and on a short timeline like that, seems unlikely.
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Oct 16, 2023 23:51
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Being real here, the move is only nominally about being pro-democracy - it seems more likely that the point is to add a bit more oil to the international markets now that it is clear that Russia isn't changing course on ostracizing themselves from the US/EU.
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Oct 17, 2023 02:19
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BougieBitch posted:Being real here, the move is only nominally about being pro-democracy - it seems more likely that the point is to add a bit more oil to the international markets now that it is clear that Russia isn't changing course on ostracizing themselves from the US/EU. russia desperately wants its oil on the world market, this is a saudi hedge
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Oct 17, 2023 04:27
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i fly airplanes posted:Seems pretty meaningless. Does Maduro even have a legitimate opposition? he's been quite successful in suppressing it and, in fairness, it turns out the leadership weren't very smart either; people correctly make fun of guaido for becoming a caricature but they were losing steam as a serious coalition even before Maduro made his new """transitional""" better parliament with blackjack and hookers venezuela is currently firmly a one party state and if you're really charitable it's in the sense where any actual politicking happens in the PSUV-and-friends primary i figure the next step is Maduro/PSUV going "look, we got 70% of the vote and only banned one or two leading opposition candidates per race, what more do you want?!" too bad we don't seem to have any venegoons still posting, alas
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Google Jeb Bush posted:too bad we don't seem to have any venegoons still posting, alas Yeah, too bad, how do you think that happened
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What a country (Argentina)
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Mr. Nemo posted:What a country (Argentina) 1 day in argentina= 30 years in any other country
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Oct 26, 2023 01:53
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Argentina is a great place to live if you aren't getting paid in pesos.
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Oct 26, 2023 13:11
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Argentina is a bigger Uruguay but with crazy politics and bad economy instead of legal marijuana
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/26/argentina-bts-k-pop-victoria-villarruel-javier-milei?s=08 Best country ever
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https://twitter.com/el_pais/status/1718251518544183404?t=kFOcDARVEV-RECjGUa7a1w&s=19 Milei looking mad..
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Dek posted:https://twitter.com/el_pais/status/1718251518544183404?t=kFOcDARVEV-RECjGUa7a1w&s=19
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Oct 28, 2023 20:35
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Christ he looks like poo poo in that video. End of a coke binge kinda vibes
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Google Jeb Bush posted:he's been quite successful in suppressing it and, in fairness, it turns out the leadership weren't very smart either; people correctly make fun of guaido for becoming a caricature but they were losing steam as a serious coalition even before Maduro made his new """transitional""" better parliament with blackjack and hookers https://x.com/philgunson/status/1719009372175479146?s=20 Surprise!
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Oct 30, 2023 18:03
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So Milei is is pretty nuts by most standards, but recently he went all-in on praising Margaret Thatcher and shrugging off the Falklands War. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/13/javier-milei-argentina-thatcher-praise-falklands-veterans
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Google Jeb Bush posted:he's been quite successful in suppressing it and, in fairness, it turns out the leadership weren't very smart either; people correctly make fun of guaido for becoming a caricature but they were losing steam as a serious coalition even before Maduro made his new """transitional""" better parliament with blackjack and hookers That's the part I always loved the most about Maduro is that the guy has got to be a high scorer for how unnecessary his work was to obliterate democracy and install himself as chief crazy yelling guy of the one party crimetocracy. he could have just done a few more subtle things and let his opposition fall on their dicks for a while
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Nov 14, 2023 04:43
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Milei elected in Argentina. Guess my hosts were feeling left out of the chud train, after Trump and Bolsonaro had their fun.
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Sephyr posted:Milei elected in Argentina. Dude calls himself an anarchocapitalist, isn't that a fairly different flavor of right-winger than those two?
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Brazil's anarchocapitalsits were all in on Bozo. They cooled off a bit on him when the promised boom did not arrive despite all the privatizations and cuts to public services, but then went all in back for the election, and lost. Now they just go "he didn't go far ENOUGH", because of course. I suspect the same thing will happen here, only worse. Brazil, for good or ill, has a good industrial base and can maintain supply of food and goods. Argentina was hollowed out industrially first by their dictatorship and then the neoliberal Caballo economy, which exploded in 2001 and had the middle class picking through the garbage for food. How they'll able to dolarize their economy (as Milei claims to want to do) with no revenue while flipping off 'communist' China and Brazil as trading partners and firing half of public workers (the core of Argentinian middle class) is beyind me.
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Sephyr posted:Milei elected in Argentina. Seems awful but it probably didn't help that other guy seemed also pretty bad? Being Minister of the Economy when you already have hyperinflation isn't a great look.
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I'm unsure which part of Milei threatening to cut ties with Argentina's two largest trading partners will help with hyperinflation, but I'm no economist.
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He’s also a staunch anti-abortionist. But he’s entirely in favor of legalizing organ trading. The dude is a lunatic.
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