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I don't know what the right thread for this is, but: what's the best source to keep up to date irt Ecuador? My brother just got down there to be a whitewater guide or so he said and while it doesn't look like anything too worrying is going on, would like to be able to keep up with it
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Last I heard the protesters made the government flee its own capital. That's a bit more concerning but I'm not gonna worry too much until the kidnapping of randos or murder gangs start. Probably should Google the address of the US consulate in Ecuador and make sure that he has it written down somewhere though
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Oct 9, 2019 21:57
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Well now I'm getting a bit more worried about my brother
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Oct 10, 2019 15:19
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1b63_story.html the ecuadorian protestors are legit as gently caress and the whole thing is just the standard "the IMF is coming in and saying that you have to do X, Y, and Z as part of your loan restructuring" that has been used to gently caress over the global south, but I'm worried because I just heard on the BBC that the protestors had been parading a bunch of cops that they took hostage through the capital and that sounds like it's something that's just going to lead to more and more escalation and my brother just loving got down there because his friend convinced him to work at his dad's business as a whitewater rafting guide and the last thing that I want is for us to lose contact with him because the internet gets cut or something especially given that my mom is waiting to hear back if she has ovarian cancer and just gently caress the timing of all of this gently caress the IMF gently caress austerity gently caress the attempts to steal indiginous land gently caress cancer and gently caress the mods mods knew Protestors having cops hostage: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article235997523.html
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Oct 11, 2019 04:19
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absolutely floored that the argentinian election has also been rigged. completely an utterly rigged. I'm an expert, trust me
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Oct 28, 2019 03:37
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reading articles on it because I like being angry"CNN posted:Morales was one of the longest-serving heads of state in Latin America, is Bolivia's first indigenous president. He won his first election with a campaign that promised a government focused on the needs of the country's poor. But he was also accused of using the system to concentrate power. how was he concentrating power CNN? was he using the police to harass opposition? no they starting openly opposing him a couple of days ago. How about the military? was he concentrating his power that way? no, he just got couped. gosh darn they must be referring to how he halved the poverty rate of the country. After all, doing things that helps poor people is cheating politically. they might vote for you in the next election!
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Nov 10, 2019 23:30
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look, we really need to be talking about police reform at this point. The police were incapable of doing anything to fight back against the opposition protestors, to the point where they joined the protestors demanding the overthrow of Morales. The only solution is better equipping and training the police to deal with the protests that are still wrecking the country at this very moment
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Nov 11, 2019 04:57
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looking forward to Bernie releasing a well researched and sourced tweet chain undermining the western framing of the whole Bolivia coup I know it won't happen, but it coming from him would be so loving beautiful. and gently caress if I can't hope
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Nov 11, 2019 05:07
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Hoping and wishing that Evo regains power so that I can start saying "Liddle Marco Coupio"
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Nov 12, 2019 04:52
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Someone write a post talking about the militaries failure to coup Bush after the illegitimate 2000 election (it was decided by a supreme court justice that his dad appointed!) and his subsequent doing 9/11 and Iraq, is proof you can't be too careful not couping
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Nov 12, 2019 22:06
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Plus the whole "socialism cannot be allowed to succeed, or else people might want to do it" thing
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Nov 13, 2019 01:41
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Pretty racist of y'all to be okay with American death squads, even going so far as to raise them to the ranks of law enforcement, but oppose Bolivian death squads Wundur why that may be???? STFU you racist prices of poo poo
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Nov 13, 2019 02:20
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Atrocious Joe posted:lil Marco says we are all Russian agents Holy gently caress they have guts
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Nov 13, 2019 03:39
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Kunster posted:What was the original piece that had those again? https://www.en24.news/news/2019/11/10/bolivia-audios-leaked-from-opposition-leaders-calling-for-a-coup-against-evo-morales.html That said, no clue who the gently caress en24 news is, or if anyone in Bolivia's MAS has referred to these recordings since they have come out, so be a bit cautious
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Nov 13, 2019 15:05
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Unrelated note, I'm not crazy for being mostly convinced that Egypt back in 2012 or whatever almost definitely was a US backed coup, right? Like, there isn't enough evidence to my knowledge that I would shout from the rooftops that it was a US backed thing, but the whole "country established democracy, looked like they were going to elect an anti-US government, and were overthrown by the military who formed a very pro-US government" seems like a clear case of the Obama administration being fine with there being a democracy as long as it was pro-US, which it wasn't going to be, so they told their guy in the military that they would back him.
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Nov 15, 2019 22:34
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The coup against Morsi had broad middle-class support for it so it didn't really need much of a push from the US. The bottom line is that we did endorse it though. Fair enough. Again, I was well aware that all that I knew about it was that it followed a pattern and that it was in US interst, but I didn't really know anything about how it was perceived, and it didn't really work in ti howni viewed the world or anything, so I didn't bother learning more. That it was at least after the fact supported by the US was clear, though, as the military aid checks made clear
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Nov 15, 2019 23:19
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brugroffil posted:https://twitter.com/monkeycageblog/status/1233013125483503616 well, I'm sure that the media is really sorry for carrying water for fascists this time
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Feb 27, 2020 19:46
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Algund Eenboom posted:Happy to know the cia had nothing to do with it they even tried to talk them out of it! sad to see these brave troops letting their hearts guide their heads 
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May 5, 2020 07:05
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One More Fat Nerd posted:At least one of the guns they brought was apparently a fuckin' airsoft rifle. well yeah, they were going to need to restock from the first armory they raided anyway, and they didn't have the funds to buy enough guns to equip everyone due to budget constraints. Is 62 guns really different from 61? lmao this loving owns
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May 6, 2020 17:35
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PhilippAchtel posted:I just recently watched the episode of ST: Discovery where they listed Musk alongside the Wright brothers and Zephram Cochran, which I'm sure our big boy paid handsomely for. He had an Iron Man cameo where they sucked him off too lmao
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Oct 21, 2020 23:46
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punk rebel ecks posted:Yes. The heart of the crisis is that the entire economy was subsidised by the oil industry. Once prices fell so did the economy. See also: virtually every other oil export economy
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Oct 26, 2020 21:10
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ToxicAcne posted:What's stopping professional politicians stonewalling the chance of any reforms when rewriting the constitution in Chile? Same thing that forced the constitutional convention: riots
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Nov 6, 2020 03:57
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Anyone know what is going on in Peru right now? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/10/peru-coup-accusations-head-of-congress-made-president-predecessor-ousted
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TerminalSaint posted:Love that passive voice on "at least one truck caught fire". especially because it turned out that it was someone on the columbian side of the border who did it. Threw a molotov and the cloth fell out https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-aid-fire-video.html
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ZearothK posted:A lot of racists in Latin America see themselves as misplaced Yanks or ftfy
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Jun 11, 2021 01:39
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I think that that graph is focused on producers + the US https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/six-largest-lithium-reserves-world/
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Apr 27, 2022 22:56
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Allegedly Mexico has the world's largest known lithium reserves at an estimatedd 244 million tonnes, so either they were discovered since 2019 or that chart is nonsense. They were actually discovered in 2018, according to this random website I found https://dialogochino.net/en/extractive-industries/48500-mexico-lithium-nationalisation/
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Apr 27, 2022 22:57
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@20-30 seconds you can see a laser pointer coming from one of the windows ~2/3rds of the way up that tall building in the back. TeenageArchipelago has issued a correction as of 20:06 on May 22, 2022 |
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May 22, 2022 20:03
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Just thinking about how the conservative church that I went to when I was a kid told us a story about Cuba. They said that the Cubans had all of the students in a classroom put their heads down and pray to God for ice cream, and then look to see that they didn't have any ice cream. Then they prayed to Fidel Castro for ice cream, and when they looked they had ice cream. The dude who told us this story must have thought that it totally owned the communists who lied about God but Fidel actually did give the kids ice cream??? Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
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May 23, 2022 14:41
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ZearothK posted:Yeah, I'd also side with whoever gives me icecream. When I was ~middle school aged a different person at that same church told us about how she had met an ex-satanist who told her all about how when she was a satanist she could summon fire with a snap of her finger and poo poo like that and I just thought that that sounded badass love growing up in a well adjusted country
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Was the moral of the story supposed to be that Fidel, unwittingly, is a servant of His Almighty and works towards His will of answering the ice cream prayers of children? Nah, it was that the dirty communists would lie in order to get you to doubt the existence of god. The more that I think about it the more that the core ideology of that church was basically "God saved you from sin which would have damned you to hell, you can ask for more but you're probably not going to get it because god's plan." It's like they simultaneously believe that there is some kind of thaumaturgical basis to the universe, that God needed to do some kind of magic sacrificial ritual to cleanse humanity of it's sin instead of just doing it, but at the same time magic doesn't exist and if you have cancer than it sucks to suck must have been god's plan. I know that I am expecting religion to make far too much sense Orange Devil posted:God has a poo poo track record at improving people’s material lives. Communists do not. A good story. this is the truth
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Kal-L posted:I read some comments in reddit about how AMLO was a failure for not going. Just LOL and LMAO that they think that the current Latin American leaders need Biden and his administration's approval to do stuff, instead of the truth being that Biden was hoping to show how so much better he's at dealing with other american countries than Trump, and needed them all there to approve of him. In a functioning democracy all of the politicians getting $250,000 for paid speeches would be in prison. The US is far from a functioning democracy
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Jun 12, 2022 00:52
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Imagine China calling for regime change when people were yelling at Republicans in restaurants
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Rand Pauls neighbor beats the poo poo out of him for leaving a brush pile on the property line and I am just waiting for President Xi to free my people
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Wonder what impact that this will have on Columbia's NATO pseudo membership Alternatively, I wonder what NATO's impact will be on this. Having NATO somewhat integrated into your military can't be good for you
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Atrocious Joe posted:Cholera is surging there again and that is being cited to justify further intervention I hope that the UN sends peacekeepers to help clear up the Haitian Cholera outbreak, that's never gone wrong before in the recent past
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-hospitalized-us-with-abdominal-pain-report-2023-01-09/ lmao
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