The Latin America thread (VE, BR, AR, CU, MX...)

Well, Elections are politics too

Well what's the political situation like in Paraguay? All I know about it is A: Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay had a big war that killed a bunch of Paraguayans and kinda fucked shit up, and B: Stroessner's US-backed military dictatorship was around during the Cold War.

Precisely. I meant that I thought this was NOT a politics thread but that luckily I could talk about Politcs anyway since Election are indeed coming.

Another good question Adric, Here in Paraguay things are going along nicely enough...but there are some problems like poverty and corruption and so on. Also last year Horacio Cartes tried to change the constitution of Paraguay and got someone killed in the crossfire.

Im kinda dumb so I can only explain things as far as I understand them.

Paraguay's economy is also quite dependent on the service industry, correct? At one point it had the no. 1 service economy in the world.

Um...I dont even know what does that mean. Could you explain what does that mean. But Im glad to be informed we are number on in something.

Esta preguntando si la economia de Paraguay es muy dependiente del sector de los servicios (comercio, comunicaciones, centro de llamadas, finanzas, turismo, hostelería, ocio, cultura, espectáculos, la administración pública, entre otros: basicamente, la venta de bienes no tangibles a diferencia de la industria de manufactura que vende COSAS)

Just posted the question adding what service industry means in spanish.

Also, yeah. People gettin killed in Nicaragua. Only just startin' too. I personally nothing will change in the end.

The protests have ended in Niracagua, but a journalist covering the event on FB Live was shot while the video was still online.

They are not over, no. They are going to continue. They are hardly official in the first place, but the discontent from the Ortega dictatorship is not magically gone because he pulled back from the reform that sparked it all.

There's like 100 people dead or missing by now. That's not going to be ok overnight.

edited 23rd Apr '18 7:39:54 AM by Aszur

Thanks for speaking in Spanish! But its not that I have a problem with. Im actually quite good at English. I just really dont know much about our economy. But I asked my dad and he said yes, we do gets lots of money from Soy and Meat. Not as much as any other country since ours is so small and all. We also get a lot of money from the Itaipu Dam that is the biggest in the world I think.

Soy and Meat do not constitue part of the service industry, since it's a tangible good being sold. And the Itaipu dam doesn't even seem to be in the list of top 20 largest dams in the world...

Hmm. Not sure where the services thin being the biggest in paraguay comes from. From what I can find, its chief export seems to be...soybeans and corn.

https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/pry/

"Feels like the most stupid person on earth"

Thanks pal, for clearing things up though.

edited 23rd Apr '18 12:44:29 PM by AegisP

I'm looking up about the guy who just got elected in Paraguay, and according to his Wikipedia page, he apparently spoke a bit positively about dictator Alfredo Stroessner? That, uh, does not sound encouraging.

Not only that but his grandfather was one of Stroessner's biggest allies back in the day. I really hope Paraguay makes it through this.

And thank you Adric for changing the subject. I really dont know much about economy.

SAD BREAKING NEWS. TAS-CAS imposes a 14 month period of inelegibility to peruvian player Paolo Guerrero. He will miss the Russia World Cup. http://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Release_5546_decision.pdf

What? Oh damn, that was the first time that we did in on decades and Guerrero wouldn't be on that.

Poor man

I'm angry at him actually.

He was given the choice to admit he had screwed up, which would have allowed him to play with the team; instead, he chose his pride, and now he is out of the team and we are down one good player.

All for not wanting to admit his mistake.

That too.

Reading about Lieutenant General Jorge Videla's demise, I think it's pretty karmic.

The bloody era of the juntas is over after the Falklands, and now people want revenge. But do they torture them? No, they do not stoop to that level. Instead, as a democratic nation, they do it their way - they put the juntas on public trial. Those guilty are convicted, sentence and imprisoned. The generals are sacked from the military and convicted on multiple charges.

Sure, Videla gets out of prison briefly, but then Kirchner sends him back in. At his trial, he attempts to brand the left-wing government as Marxists, but it's a feeble attempt by a bitter old man.

On May 12th, 2013, Videla slips in the prison shower and breaks several bones. He gets an internal hemorrhage. It's painful, moreso that he's been sentenced to endure the slow degradation of his body in old age. Eventually he dies in his sleep, 6 days later, of said injuries. He does not get a military funeral.

Perhaps Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Jr. summed it up best: "Videla died prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned in a common cell, repudiated by the Argentine people."

(Meanwhile Pinochet and much of the Brazilian junta gets a slap on the wrist.)

edited 16th May '18 11:59:06 AM by TheWildWestPyro

A dictator getting punishment is always a good thing.

(why mine cant get it!!!)

edited 16th May '18 1:33:00 PM by KazuyaProta

Well the biggest son of a bitch got a Karmic Death.

But unfortunately, there are many from the old junta that just have house arrest and live their lives as if nothing has happened.

BTW, Argentina's current president, Mauricio Macri, is good friends with Trump. Yay...

A Boeing 737 with over 100 people on board went down shortly after takeoff at Havana.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44176899

I dont think that said anything, is being neutral president, after all you dont need to piss off people just for good moral points, whatever we liked or not Trump is still USA president.

Anyway, I still un the fence on the idea if Maduro and is crony will get any punishment from this, I kinda hope so because otherwise I feel this will leave a bad mark in venezuela mind.

Looks like 102 of the 105 people abroad the aircraft are dead, 3 survivors are in critical condition.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/americas/cuba-airliner-crash/index.html

I know that the election may be rigged for Maduro, but still, make sure you go out and vote for Henri Falcon today, as it's probably the only way to get rid of that monster. I have the deepest sympathy for anyone who can't leave the country and is stuck in this seemingly hopeless situation.

Im from venezuela and let me tell you: there are ghost towns with more life that venezuela right now.

people are not going to vote.