South America culture and politics thread

You could emigrate? Portugal is desperate for people since they're ageing so much. Angola and Mozambique need skilled workers. Or you could go to America.

edited 13th May '16 1:52:35 AM by Achaemenid

Well it is on the plans, eventually.

My sweet sweet summer lusophones,may I ask, how bad is Michel Temer?

He vetoed the plans for a political reform, is a political opportunist and is allied with basically the most horrible people in the people in the country, so pretty terrible all around.

Plays House Of Cards US theme inside head.

Hard to tell how terrible he is, he does have a had in the current economical and political situation as he and his party benefited directly from the rampant and uncontrolled spending our government did and his involvement in corruption schemes have a lot more evidence than Dilma did.

We're not entirely sure about his speech of making a government focused in fixing the current economic crisis this country is in, like our former interim president Itamar Franco, is for real or just smoke and mirrors.

Of course there's a lot of more evidence of him than Dilma. PT believed that as long nothing hit the president directly they could get away even with genocide....Ok, that was a hyperbole but there's no way in hell that Dilma is innocent, much less Lula. The question is when we'll discover that. No one is that innocent while their party dilapidates the country's money.

Unfortunately for Dilma her Impeachment accusations were built around the fiscal responsibility crime, which there while the population at whole isn't sure if it s a crime or not, the constitution amendments in the mid 90's made doing things like having the public banks cover for the treasury expenses and expending a responsibility crime, at least without previous approval by the congress.

Which Dilma did by the end of her last term for plenty of reasons and without the congress approval.

It's a good law. Politicians have this horrible notion that they can spend things as they want today and money will magically appear tomorrow. And when finally the money runs out, they blame everything but their irresponsible spending.

Sometimes I can't believe our Congress approved it.

edited 14th May '16 6:27:08 AM by VengeanceIsMine

Well Temer started off shooting himself in the foot already by merging the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education into a single entity, which effectively fucked over the entire economy of culture in the country (I mean sure, Globo will stand unmatched because it's fucking Globo). Mind you, it makes even less sense as "budget cutting" maneuver because A) The Minsitry of Culture was already receiving very small funds B) The industry of entertainment is one of the few that actually thrives (or at least remain mostly unaffected) in moments of economic crisis.

If anything they should be doing the opposite and investing more on culture.

The funny part is that when he announced this his voice cracked and became demonic-like. Satamer rises!.

I have mixed opinions about the ministry of culture.

While it is a good goal to fund artistic projects, I am still angry half pint artists and professional ass kissers were receiving hundreds of thousands to millions through the Rouanet law and legit projects still have a hard time getting funding, specially the educational ones.

Honestly, there are too many ministries and many of them exists just for show.

Ministry of Culture isn't one of them.

So uh...is Venezuela about to collapse? Been hearing nothing but horror stories in the news about the economy, but I'm coming here to double check in case its just breathless scaremongering.

You can check all the details in the Venezuela thread, btw. Our Venezuelan tropers are fed up with everything.

edited 14th May '16 3:56:38 PM by Quag15

Apparently if from what I gathered from there, Maduro just used some decrees to have unlimited power.

tl;dr: Inflation, scarcity, blackouts, stagnation, rampant crime, health crisis, corruption, repression, tyranny. Yes.

If anything, I'd say the news understate it.

edited 14th May '16 4:58:38 PM by Stormtroper

Heard there's now talks about impeaching Temer too, are you guys trying to beat our record for most presidents in a year? (5 between december of 2001 and january of 2002).

Brazilian minister ousted after secret tape reveals plot to topple President Rousseff Apparently Dilma gave the investigators a relatively free reign and the oligarchs are convinced that it can be stopped only if she is removed.

Well ain't that bloody convenient.

Like I said in the other thread, this development is profoundly unsurprising.

edited 24th May '16 4:05:44 PM by wehrmacht

PEC 20-2016, yay or nay? (in short: do you wanna new elections for president this year?)

I have a sinking feeling we would elect someone horrible (possibly worse than Temer) so I would be tempted to say "no". It can at least wait until 2018.

I mean, the country is not yet on fire I haven't really kept up with the news, so I'm unsure anything outrageous has been/will be done by Temer in the foreseeable future (other than the fusion of the Ministry of Culture and Education).

I would like new elections, but I'd need to do research before making a statement about what my opinion really is.

Well the government is how cogitating having the Army to take over and finishing the construction projects that were frozen by Lava Jato

Methinks that since Temer and his cronies took over the government won't be spending too much time and energy trying to maintain Dilma in place.

Calling for new elections may actually be a trap. If that happens, Lula would probably be elected president thanks to the lack of better optons and that would surely make him unable to be investigated. And don't think people here would think twice before voting on him because I know this country has the bad habit of paitng certain people as the salvation of Brazil only to regret their decisions later.

Also, I'm one of these people that think fusing these two ministries would actually be a good thing and got disappointed after Temer chickened out. That and the fact he put a lot of dubious people to assume some of these positions made him lose a lot of points with me already.

edited 30th May '16 7:47:00 AM by ShadowAbyss