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In the late 90s, South America was a lovely place. The old Military Juntas of the past gave way to Neoliberal democratic governments with Washington's blessing, which started a brutal privatization programs in which state companies and resources were plundered and sold to multinational conglomerates for paltry sums that were kept in the pockets of a corrupt few and trade tariffs were eliminated, resulting in several national companies being unable to compete with foreign stronger companies and end up being bought by them. Social inequality soars as the gulf between the many and the few widens, and in response of that, the early 2000s sees the 'Pink Tide', in which several countries turn towards leftism by electing socialist candidates such as Lula in Brazil, Morales in Bolivia, Chávez in Venezuela and the Kirchners in Argentina. A new age was to appear in the Continent in which it would break away from its chains from Yanqui Imperialism. Except... It didn't. And things went for the worse.  Much worse. Brazil  In 2002, the left-wing Worker's Party came to government, and while it did a shift towards the center in order to avoid alienating the foreign capital. Barraged from the start by the media oligopoly with corruption scandals, both real and invented, the first 12 years of Lula and his protegé Dilma's administration nevertheless managed to increase social mobility with widespread welfare and social programs that saw millions of people rise to middle class. Then in 2015, things started to crack. An economic crisis brought by the inability of the government to increase the national industrial production and the plummeting of oil prices engulfed the country in a deep crisis, which combined with political instability, brought upon a massive backlash against the uncharismatic Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached by its former ally, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, whose leader, the former president Michel Temer, starts to reverse all social advances made by the Worker's Party in the name of 'cutting costs of the state machine', with massively unpopular reforms such as gutting labor laws, increasing retirement age, abolishing pensions for widows, cutting public education and healthcare funds in half and so on. To make things worse, the recent mayoral elections saw a massive rise of the right and far-right parties, as the corporate media's slow poison results into a rise of reactionary thought in the Brazilian middle class. More countries to be added later! Feel free to contribute if you are from one of them! Recommended Watching (To Be Added more) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdtvyiHuTSo Recommended Reading http://www.brasilwire.com/ https://theintercept.com/ Feel free to contribute!
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Theres been several prison riots so far the last few weeks and its a loving bloodbath and a lot of people I know are commemorating that as a way to cleanse the country
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Jan 14, 2017 05:18
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Weeping Wound posted:How exactly is the government operating these days? I paid some attention to the Rousseff crisis, but sort of tapered off when, you know, Trump. Given all that's happened since, how has Brazil handled the situation? The Temer Government is incredibly unpopular, with single digit approval rates but the current zeitgeist is "well it can't be helped" which is how their assfuck policies are passing virtually unopposed. rudatron posted:Basically this whole situation is a consequence of Saudi Arabia + decisions made avoid tackling corruption. Except for the small fringe left tiny parties every single party is corrupt. This is not an exaggeration, most of the small parties don't even have any ideology at all, instead being graft-seeking mercenaries who sell their support in congress in exchange for money or government positions. There was an actual attempt by the Rousseff government to do a political reform when the first rumblings and protests started back in 2014 but congress stonewalled them out of it.
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Jan 14, 2017 13:28
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Heaven Spacey posted:muerte a los estados unidos they use gringo here in brazil, i guess yanqui in other places
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Jan 15, 2017 00:01
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Jose posted:having interacted with brazilians elsewhere on the internet your posting suddenly makes sense Yikes
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Jan 15, 2017 21:03
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30 people beheaded in another prison riot/gang war although this time its near my state
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Jan 15, 2017 21:07
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I didn't think anybody could be more racist than middle class American whites, until I became posting buds with a white upper class Brazilian. Uh... they're passionate folks that's for sure. I'm gonna post later but theres a Financial Times article about white southern Brazilians being recruited for the Azov Batallion in Ukraine and I don't think the US even has that poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2017 22:23
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SO WHAT ABOUT THAT DEAD SUPREME COURT JUDGE...
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Jan 24, 2017 13:32
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I'm at Rio for the weekend for a student council and poo poo looks serious. The current governor has been indected and arrested for being involved in some nasty poo poo and there are several protests going on because the state public workers haven't been paid for months after the Olympics+World Cup+Oil Price Drop trifecta destroyed Rio's finances. Now everyone is afraid the cops will strike/mutiny like the ones at Espirito Santo did a week ago which ended in massive riots, looting and people getting butchered in the middle of the street.
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Feb 11, 2017 16:07
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Weeping Wound posted:What's the situation right now? I know the cops down there are basically Chicago+ in that they'll just execute people they don't like, but it's a lot, lot larger than Chicago. Does the mayor have any jurisdiction? I'd be pretty fuckin' terrified if the cops mutinied and just started taking justice into their own hands. Oh yeah the cops are a billion times worse than in the US in that they are openly corrupt and extort bribes from people, beat them up while searching for drugs and weapons (specially if you're black) and moonlighting as death squads against the homeless but the second they refused to work in Vitória the city turnes into something out of the Purge movies.
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Feb 12, 2017 01:02
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qnqnx posted:Only in the eastern municipalities of Santiago and Viña del Mar, where the popular opinion is that Pinochet did nothing wrong. Vina was a lovely place when I visited it. 
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Feb 13, 2017 13:17
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Leftist called Lenin might win Equadorian elections  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-election-idUSKBN15Y05A
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Feb 21, 2017 15:37
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Fallen Hamprince posted:woops! looks like he's gonna fall short in the first round so it's suddenly taking way longer to count the votes for some reason. perhaps the australian rapist hiding in Ecuador's London embassy's linen closet can shed some light as to why Hopefully someone sheds some light on your future assault by getting bashed in the skull and testicles with a claw hammer
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Feb 21, 2017 16:35
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So they just passed an outsourcing law in Brazil in a surprise session that will brutally gently caress labor here and are soon to pass a pension law that will extend women's retiring age by five years and since people here are loving simps there will be a few isolated protests but everyone will stop giving a poo poo in two months while the Government removes every protection that the laborer had here in the name of 'economic recovery'.
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Mar 23, 2017 01:09
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BOY OH BOY
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May 21, 2017 03:32
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It's not just evidence, it's straight up tapes of Temer endorsing someone to be bribed.
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May 21, 2017 14:40
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The Euro clubs ruined the sport because they syphon every single talent and turn them into diving retards
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May 22, 2017 22:54
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Jose posted:some deeply shocking news that brazil's president has been charged with corruption I'm gonna guess they are gonna put Tasso Jereissati (the only bigwig politician from the PSDB that isn't KNOWINGLY involved with corruption schemes) to ram through the austerity reforms then
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Jun 27, 2017 14:03
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Jose posted:why is brazil getting on austerity haven't they seen its been a disaster everywhere else? Because it's a disaster only for the chumps who aren't getting mad profit on it lmao Also Temer said before he was gonna renounce if he ever had charges pressed against them but he predictably chickened out now
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Jun 27, 2017 22:51
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God willing it starts a brutal cvil war here too
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Jun 28, 2017 05:36
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Good news: Left Wing positions in Brazil have grown in the latest opinion polls which means the rising conservative wave has been completely killed by the Temer administration. Bad News: Senate is very likely to pass the "Labor Reform" which will bring our standards back to the late 19th century.
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Jul 3, 2017 17:46
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Former president Lula got condemned to nine years in jail. Meanwhile most members of the Temer cabinet and congressmen allied to him that were involved with some serious graft and corruption charges had their accusations silently wiped under the rug these past few months. Also the Senate passed the new labor laws that are widely hated by everyone and will roll back rights a century. 
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Jul 12, 2017 21:47
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They already did with most of the petty-bourgeoise. The reactionary tide started to ebb these last few months but there's still a lot of idiots who support the military "taking care of stuff again" and unironic monarchists.
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Jul 12, 2017 23:48
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Outsourcing is now completely open, you can hire temp workers for more time without having to pay them full time salaries, 48 workhour week, collective bargaining gets precedence over the current labor law (and since collective bargaining is way slanted in favor of the employer than the employee this means you either accept to get hosed in the rear end or get fired)
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Jul 13, 2017 15:08
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Time to make things right...
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Jul 14, 2017 17:59
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After eight months since the minister of finance said that taxes won't increase, Taxes for fuel will double which will end up increasing prices for almost everything. This will probably kill Temer's support with the business class alongside the fact that he tried to pass an executive order to dampen the damage that labor reform will make. Oh yeah Jose I forgot but alongside the changes it's now legal to make pregnant women work on "unhealthy" work environments.
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Jul 23, 2017 21:33
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https://twitter.com/ReutersWorld/status/891844189281030144 It's freedom time! No dad no!
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Jul 31, 2017 17:24
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Getting real excited for the ISIS execution video where they slice your throat open with a paring knfe.
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Aug 1, 2017 05:06
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ArfJason posted:A popular right wing party candidate, sergio massa, met with rudolph giuliani. Lmao were screwed Since like almost every one else is under investigation or with a ruined reputation the two biggest names on the next elections here are a guy who is ten times the fascist that Americans thought Trump would be and a dude who acts like a populist but his family is one of the regional oligarchies in my state
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Aug 1, 2017 17:14
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Bolsonaro is such a massive piece of poo poo and he's super popular because this country has gone incredibly fascist lately. I don't think even Trump would get away with telling a congresswoman on television that she is too ugly to rape
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Aug 1, 2017 17:16
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The congressman shooter was right bitch
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Aug 2, 2017 21:42
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Congress just voted to archive the criminal process against Temer lmfao
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Aug 3, 2017 00:32
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Yeah Rio got in some real deep poo poo the last couple of years. One of the state universities even got shut down this semester because they are completely broke.
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Aug 11, 2017 21:25
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Temer signed the cancelation of an ecological reserve on the amazon and opened it to be completely raped by mining and logging companies but thank christ a judge put a injunction against that but it's just a matter of time before he gets it overturned.
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Sep 4, 2017 15:09
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The real collapse is what will happen when they sell every inch of rainforest for multinational corporations to utterly destroy.
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Sep 4, 2017 15:10
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Las Falklands san Inglésas
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Sep 4, 2017 16:45
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ArfJason posted:ok dumb posts aside i guess this is a good place as any to repost this loving yikes
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Sep 5, 2017 16:28
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Lmao four Supreme Court dudes have been denounced for corruption. Literally every institution is rotten.
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Sep 5, 2017 16:30
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Latest news here: Two queer art expositions were shut down, one by the police and another after protesting by rightwingers, Army General recently said that military intervention is necessary to save country, judiciary decision made "Gay Cure" interventions legal. Welp.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:now what do these polls look like uncucked? We will know soon since the media and moro are doing their best to prevent Lula from running
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