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megalodong
Mar 11, 2008

https://twitter.com/CESGUAR/status/1026186994102218757

First drone, not the one that flew into a building. Wonder if all the media that immediately claimed it was all a fake flag and there were no drones will retract that now.

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc4Qm48Zb8g

Ultra-Right Group Behind Assassination Attempt on Venezuela's President Maduro

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc4Qm48Zb8g

Ultra-Right Group Behind Assassination Attempt on Venezuela's President Maduro

LOL, US despite not being accused denies involvement. SURE.....

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

I feel like the US would've been dumb enough to give them bigger drones with bigger bombs that said "Made in the USA" on the tin. This is well within the realm of some psychotic fringe group.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Made the BR election thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3866293

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
can someone explain whats going on in nicaragua?

one article i read talked that a previous flareup was over the construction of a canal to compete with panama's linking the atlantic and pacific, why were people against that?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

mila kunis posted:

can someone explain whats going on in nicaragua?

one article i read talked that a previous flareup was over the construction of a canal to compete with panama's linking the atlantic and pacific, why were people against that?

https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebels/nicaragua-right-wing-us-coup-managua-episode-22

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
posting this classic clip

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ErHuqCB5TDc

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmuC1fw4XeU

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Shame this didn't lead to easy access to toilet paper

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Byolante posted:

Shame this didn't lead to easy access to toilet paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ocZxD40DA

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Like in a vacuum walking down the street confiscating all the empty houses and luxury goods shops an using them for the populace is good. The problem with Venezuela is the money went to Chavez and his cronies instead of the state.

fatal oopsie-daisy
Jul 30, 2007

by R. Guyovich
Whoops

fatal oopsie-daisy has issued a correction as of 11:54 on Aug 23, 2018

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

https://twitter.com/FairyS/status/1031902350846251010?s=19

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lmao

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Why does the mascot look like a member of the Klan?

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/delusionalcons/status/1033360671755386887

i assume this is brazilian because every brazilian conservative is completely insane

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

it's cute that Brazilian fascists think they're in the occident

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's cute that Brazilian fascists think they're in the occident

It is because, no none of them would ever be allowed at alt right rallies. Like it's even more pathetic how they want to imitate this countries dumbest and most horrible people. Because those same people would tell them to lick their boots and be their slaves.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

What kind of economic interests does ISIS have??? Also to be fair the gays are outside of the radical Islam portion of the venn diagram so the person who posted the tweet is wrong about that.

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Plutonis posted:

What kind of economic interests does ISIS have??? Also to be fair the gays are outside of the radical Islam portion of the venn diagram so the person who posted the tweet is wrong about that.

Also are there many Muslim immigrants in South America?

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

I think barely four thousand syrians came during the last decade and still managed to be targeted by hate crimes. There's some really old Muslim communities (like back from Ottoman times) in São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul and even Amazonas but in places like my city there's like not even enough of them to warrant building a mosque so they usually gather in a community center.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

the gay-promoting russo-chinese

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Plutonis posted:

What kind of economic interests does ISIS have???

gold dinars?

Crowsbeak posted:

Also are there many Muslim immigrants in South America?

There's over 5 million Lebanese in Brazil, but afaik they're mostly from the big Lebanese migration wave to the new world a century ago. Mostly they're christians, obviously.

Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 17:39 on Aug 25, 2018

Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011

Crowsbeak posted:

Also are there many Muslim immigrants in South America?

the greatest Argentine president is a muslim

The Unnamed One
Jan 13, 2012

"BOOM!"
Ah yes those famous multiculturalists, the Islamic State

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

the greatest Argentine president is a muslim

Yeah going to have to explain the joke, because Hipolito Yrogan I don't think was religious.

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

Crowsbeak posted:

Yeah going to have to explain the joke, because Hipolito Yrogan I don't think was religious.
I don't know how could you say that.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
https://twitter.com/BrazilBrian/status/1035491937564995585

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

gonna be in Buenos Aires for a few days next week, can't wait for Argentinazo 2

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 16 hours!
https://twitter.com/jesgmz/status/1035535772718387200

Gonna happen bruhs

Huge english speaking Venezuelan population, and most of them want the country flattened so the PSUV never gains power again. :shrug: no good options

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

OTOH this saber rattling has happened for decades

Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011
lmao at the thought of rubio having any influence

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

lmao at the thought of rubio having any influence

liddle Marco Rubio

The Unnamed One
Jan 13, 2012

"BOOM!"
Can’t wait for Venezuela to turn into Libya 2: Caracas Nights

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 16 hours!

The Unnamed One posted:

Can’t wait for Venezuela to turn into Libya 2: Caracas Nights

MARKETS

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Nonsense posted:

SLAVE MARKETS

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
some stabbed that fascist piece of poo poo in Brazil but couldn't finish the job

:sad:

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


lol

quote:

The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander who participated in the talks.

Establishing a clandestine channel with coup plotters in Venezuela was a big gamble for Washington, given its long history of covert intervention across Latin America. Many in the region still deeply resent the United States for backing previous rebellions, coups and plots in countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile, and for turning a blind eye to the abuses military regimes committed during the Cold War.

The White House, which declined to answer detailed questions about the talks, said in a statement that it was important to engage in “dialogue with all Venezuelans who demonstrate a desire for democracy” in order to “bring positive change to a country that has suffered so much under Maduro.”

But one of the Venezuelan military commanders involved in the secret talks was hardly an ideal figure to help restore democracy: He is on the American government’s own sanctions list of corrupt officials in Venezuela.

He and other members of the Venezuelan security apparatus have been accused by Washington of a wide range of serious crimes, including torturing critics, jailing hundreds of political prisoners, wounding thousands of civilians, trafficking drugs and collaborating with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which is considered a terrorist organization by the United States.

American officials eventually decided not to help the plotters, and the coup plans stalled. But the Trump administration’s willingness to meet several times with mutinous officers intent on toppling a president in the hemisphere could backfire politically.

Most Latin American leaders agree that Venezuela’s president, Mr. Maduro, is an increasingly authoritarian ruler who has effectively ruined his country’s economy, leading to extreme shortages of food and medicine. The collapse has set off an exodus of desperate Venezuelans who are spilling over borders, overwhelming their neighbors.

Even so, Mr. Maduro has long justified his grip on Venezuela by claiming that Washington imperialists are actively trying to depose him, and the secret talks could provide him with ammunition to chip away at the region’s nearly united stance against him.

“This is going to land like a bomb” in the region, said Mari Carmen Aponte, who served as the top diplomat overseeing Latin American affairs in the final months of the Obama administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/americas/donald-trump-venezuela-military-coup.html

hilarious that this poo poo is just freely leaked. this will be a huge boon to maduro

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lmfao. How are we a super power

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