Reply With QuoteWhat do you know about Gustavo Petro? Do you have an opinion on a socialist being elected president of Colombia?Originally Posted by guno
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Ex-rebel takes oath as Colombia president in historic shift
Colombia’s first leftist president was sworn into office Sunday, promising to fight inequality and heralding a turning point in the history of a country haunted by a long war between the government and guerrilla groups.
Petro is part of a growing group of leftist politicians and political outsiders who have been winning elections in Latin America since the pandemic broke out and hurt incumbents who struggled with its economic aftershocks.
The ex-rebel’s victory was also exceptional for Colombia, where voters had been historically reluctant to back leftist politicians who were often accused of being soft on crime or allied with guerrillas.
A 2016 peace deal between Colombia's government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia turned much of the focus of voters away from the violent conflicts playing out in rural areas and gave prominence to problems like poverty and corruption, fueling the popularity of leftist parties in national elections.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...4d5773a75a9e91
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What do you know about Gustavo Petro? Do you have an opinion on a socialist being elected president of Colombia?
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South and Central America are rapidly lining up with China, and against America.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
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https://www.cato.org/blog/colombias-...4aAtymEALw_wcBOn Sunday, Petro claimed that he owed his victory to the young and to oppressed minorities. However, what likely drove him over the finish line—he beat Hernandez by a mere 700,000 votes—was the support of well‐oiled, often corrupt political machines, whose bosses sought to protect their guaranteed slices of the annual budget or regional bureaucratic fiefdoms.
Both bien pensants and political machine operators seem to bet that they somehow can curb Petro’s more fanatical tendencies. Some commentators claim that Congress, where his party does not hold a majority, can resist Petro’s push for autocracy, and that the central bank will be able to maintain its independence. Others interpret his promise to “develop” Colombian capitalism during his victory speech as a sign of moderation.
I remain a skeptic, not least due to my personal dealings with Petro in online debates—he once wrote to me to defend the labor theory of value—and during his mayorship of Bogota, when, arbitrarily, he attempted to shut down the city’s 25 very successful charter schools due to ideological posturing and pressure from the local teachers’ union. Which is to say, I believe he can cajole or bribe sufficient congressmen in order to form a majority. He might even try a hostile takeover of the central bank.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
Bigdog (08-07-2022)
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I like him and think he will do great things for Columbia
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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goat (08-07-2022)
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Cato?
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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Banned
I agree. Petro knows how to maneuver his way through the IMF, NATO, and his overlords in the US.
Never Again
No, peoples movements are getting stronger you should read '“Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance,”
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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Yay! Commutard nazi dictators have ALWAYS worked out for latin america!
“The Communist party must control the guns.”
― Mao Tse-tung
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”-Generally attributed to Uncle Joe Stalin
“Everything under heaven is in utter choas; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung
Bigdog (08-07-2022)
Gestapo Joe is a China Ho
The gov't started disarming the people of Columbia as early as 2012. By 2016, the gun ban was nationwide on ordinary citizens.
The people were left defenseless against organized crime and violent socialist rebels.
Last edited by Bigdog; 08-07-2022 at 06:14 PM.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Insane Level of Addiction
I don’t profess to be some expert on Latin America but I had a similar reaction. I can remember on here there were one or two people celebrating Hugo Chavez coming to power and how he was going to transform their country, and ultimately Latin America etc. We saw how that worked out. I guess if you’re on the left hope springs eternal that the next leftist will deliver the promised land.Yay! Commutard nazi dictators have ALWAYS worked out for latin america!
Callinectes (08-07-2022)
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