Latin America General : Corona Carnaval

[Kowani]

In another example of Leftism being alive and well despite the best efforts of some, Bolivia just swore in a new Minister of Culture, Decolonialisation, and Depatriarchalisation: https://www.pressenza.com/it/2020/11/bolivia-sabina-orellana-cruz-diventa-ministra-delle-culture-della-decolonizzazione-e-depatriarcalizzazione/

Lol what does that even mean?

her job is to promote culture, particularly bringing up the the indigenous cultures of Bolivia, and the last bit is working to combat traditional attitudes about "a woman's place" (and possibly working against gender based violence, which is apparently worse in Bolivia than any Latin American country

[Shrillland]

Pretty much what it says. Smashing patriarchy and colonialist influence whilst preserving the culture of Bolivia's native peoples. You probably wouldn't see this anywhere else in the Americas since Bolivia's nearly the only country that's majority First Nations rather than some form of European ancestry.

Sounds like an empty position

Not really. Culture Ministries are actually pretty important in most countries, they work on exporting art, media, and culture around the world whilst ensuring artists are properly funded domestically.

[Arlye Austros]

Yesterday's funeral was the perfect representation of everything wrong with Argentina. The Hooligan culture is poison there, and journalists just make it worse.

[Phoenicaea]

^i conveniently assign most of the guilt, then it has to be much more deep and sophisticated nevertheless, to the “do debts and print currency” mind, vicious cycles. it feeds a cleptocracy.

[Kowani]

The Mrxican Senate has removed Presidential Immunity, which prevents the President from being charged for any crime save Treason.


It just needs to be approved of by 17 local legislatures to become part of the Constitution.

[Kowani]

In Peru, Vizcarra will be running again in 2021, for Congress.

[Shrillland]

In Peru, Vizcarra will be running again in 2021, for Congress.

Well, I'm sure he can get in, though there's no polling yet to show how everyone's doing.

In the meantime, another vote next week....and I'm not going to project anything. It's the Venezuelan Congressional vote, and we all know that it will be a sham not worth mentioning except to lambast how much of a sham it is.

[Kowani]

In Peru, Vizcarra will be running again in 2021, for Congress.

Well, I'm sure he can get in, though there's no polling yet to show how everyone's doing.

In the meantime, another vote next week....and I'm not going to project anything. It's the Venezuelan Congressional vote, and we all know that it will be a sham not worth mentioning except to lambast how much of a sham it is.

>Venezuela
>vote

[Major-Tom]

In Peru, Vizcarra will be running again in 2021, for Congress.

I hardly know much about him, but I just like that dude. Go Vizcarra.

[Kowani]

In Peru, Vizcarra will be running again in 2021, for Congress.

I hardly know much about him, but I just like that dude. Go Vizcarra.

He's the ex-president who was ousted by a far-right Congress for accusations of ethics shenanigans when he was governor of Moquegua.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

The feel like the Middle East today is playing much of the same role Latin America did during the cold war, being a battleground between the US and Russia as well as being a sort of testing ground for novel ideologies outside of the traditional left-right dichotomy

[Arlye Austros]

In Peru, Vizcarra will be running again in 2021, for Congress.

Well, I'm sure he can get in, though there's no polling yet to show how everyone's doing.

In the meantime, another vote next week....and I'm not going to project anything. It's the Venezuelan Congressional vote, and we all know that it will be a sham not worth mentioning except to lambast how much of a sham it is.

Well... seems now it's vote or starve.

https://twitter.com/RCR750/status/13334 ... 67555?s=20

I know its said as a joke (at least at first). But a guy with the factual and formal power that Cabello has should just quit joking for a while.

[Major-Tom]

I hardly know much about him, but I just like that dude. Go Vizcarra.

He's the ex-president who was ousted by a far-right Congress for accusations of ethics shenanigans when he was governor of Moquegua.

I know that much, yes. He seemed sincere in fighting corruption, so I appreciate that.

[Fahran]

Well... seems now it's vote or starve.

https://twitter.com/RCR750/status/13334 ... 67555?s=20

I know its said as a joke (at least at first). But a guy with the factual and formal power that Cabello has should just quit joking for a while.

I mean... does anybody think Cabello is a decent human being? He's been accused of embezzlement, extortion, and money laundering at a time when many Venezuelan citizens are starving to death due to policies that his buddies implemented. He was personally involved in many of the key moments that led to the establishment of the Bolivarian dictatorship under first Chavez and then Maduro. He's been accused of accepting bribes and engaging in drug-trafficking. Him playing the buffoon is only marginally better than a butcher like Idi Amin playing the buffoon, and I wouldn't buy it for a second.

[Arlye Austros]

Well... seems now it's vote or starve.

https://twitter.com/RCR750/status/13334 ... 67555?s=20

I know its said as a joke (at least at first). But a guy with the factual and formal power that Cabello has should just quit joking for a while.

I mean... does anybody think Cabello is a decent human being? He's been accused of embezzlement, extortion, and money laundering at a time when many Venezuelan citizens are starving to death due to policies that his buddies implemented. He was personally involved in many of the key moments that led to the establishment of the Bolivarian dictatorship under first Chavez and then Maduro. He's been accused of accepting bribes and engaging in drug-trafficking. Him playing the buffoon is only marginally better than a butcher like Idi Amin playing the buffoon, and I wouldn't buy it for a second.

No, but by the looks on both the video and social media, there is at least a dozen or so who are willing to vouch for him. Venezuela is just depressing right now.

[Kexholm Karelia]

I mean... does anybody think Cabello is a decent human being? He's been accused of embezzlement, extortion, and money laundering at a time when many Venezuelan citizens are starving to death due to policies that his buddies implemented. He was personally involved in many of the key moments that led to the establishment of the Bolivarian dictatorship under first Chavez and then Maduro. He's been accused of accepting bribes and engaging in drug-trafficking. Him playing the buffoon is only marginally better than a butcher like Idi Amin playing the buffoon, and I wouldn't buy it for a second.

No, but by the looks on both the video and social media, there is at least a dozen or so who are willing to vouch for him. Venezuela is just depressing right now.

Authoritarian regimes tend to employ paid trolls on the internet

[Kowani]

A light-hearted topic: Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no, and so it became Tesla Tequila.

[Fahran]

A light-hearted topic: Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no, and so it became Tesla Tequila.

Finally, Mexico makes a good policy decision.

[Kowani]

A light-hearted topic: Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no, and so it became Tesla Tequila.

Finally, Mexico makes a good policy decision.

The Kowani News Network is proud to bring these little doses of dopamine in these troubling times.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

A light-hearted topic: Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no, and so it became Tesla Tequila.

At least he asked. Going down the Trump route of branding random products isn't a good look.

[Kowani]

Argentina will institute a wealth tax on holdings above 200 million pesos (2.5m USD)

[Fahran]

Argentina will institute a wealth tax on holdings above 200 million pesos (2.5m USD)

It's a bold step. I hope it doesn't backfire given how fragile Argentina's economy has been historically.

[Glorious Hong Kong]

Juan Guaido prepares to lose his seat in Venezuela - and his freedom

Maduro's vultures prepare to swoop in for the kill.

[Kowani]

Argentina will institute a wealth tax on holdings above 200 million pesos (2.5m USD)

It's a bold step. I hope it doesn't backfire given how fragile Argentina's economy has been historically.

shrug
I don't know enough about Argentine taxation law to say whether capital flight is a realistic threat.
For European countries, for example, it is. Intrinsically so.
But here in the US, it only is because of a deliberate underfunding of the IRS. If we were to fix that, then it ceases to be.

[Shrillland]

It's a bold step. I hope it doesn't backfire given how fragile Argentina's economy has been historically.

shrug
I don't know enough about Argentine taxation law to say whether capital flight is a realistic threat.
For European countries, for example, it is. Intrinsically so.
But here in the US, it only is because of a deliberate underfunding of the IRS. If we were to fix that, then it ceases to be.

Difficult to say, it's never really happened before in Argentina, at least not in the modern democratic era.